Amy Dowden is not going to participate in the remainder of this yr’s Strictly Come Dancing.
The skilled dancer made a return to the movie star contest this collection after present process therapy for breast most cancers and had been partnered with JLS star JB Gill.
Nonetheless, the 34-year-old has now needed to pull out of the competitors as a result of a foot damage.
In an announcement on Instagram, she mentioned: “I’m so sad, so upset and asking why me, why now that our journey has been cut short.
“My coronary heart proper now could be breaking having to tug out of the competitors as a result of a foot damage.”
Dowden added: “I do know solely too effectively ‘this too shall move’ and I will be quickly higher and again dancing. One thing I’ve needed to get used to in my life. I am positive in some unspecified time in the future we are going to dance once more JB.
“To all the fans, to my loved ones, my strictly family thank you.”
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JB Gill and Amy Dowden. Pic: BBC/Ray Burmiston
A spokeswoman for Strictly added: “Sadly, Amy Dowden MBE will not be partaking in the rest of the competition this year.
“While Amy focuses on her restoration following a foot damage, fellow skilled dancer Lauren Oakley will step in as JB’s dance accomplice.
“The health and wellbeing of everyone involved in Strictly are always the utmost priority. The whole Strictly family sends Amy love and well wishes.”
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Lauren Oakley partnered with Krishnan Guru-Murthy final yr.
Pic: PA
Dowden was taken sick through the reside present the earlier weekend and missed the Sunday outcomes programme.
She was taken to hospital from the BBC present’s manufacturing centre, Elstree Studios, as a “precaution” after “feeling unwell”, a spokesman for Dowden mentioned on the time.
Final yr, Dowden discovered a lump in her breast whereas on her honeymoon within the Maldives with fellow skilled dancer Ben Jones, and was unable to compete on Strictly.
After therapy for stage three breast most cancers, she introduced in February that checks confirmed she had “no evidence of disease”.
Dowden was made an MBE on this yr’s New Yr’s honours record for companies to fundraising and elevating consciousness of Crohn’s. She was identified with the illness as a young person and is a UK ambassador for the charity Crohn’s and Colitis.
She was additionally admitted to hospital in Manchester following a Crohn’s flare-up through the 2022 Strictly reside tour.
Dowden additionally mentioned in her assertion that previously few months she had “finally felt like me again”.
She added: “Cancer was no longer the first thing I thought of when I woke up. It was choreography, music choices, which dances in which order, what we needed to work on. I felt free again.
“My aim since listening to these phrases you’ve most cancers was to get again on the strictly dance flooring. It has been such a problem to get again.”
Dowden also praised JB Gill for being the “excellent accomplice” on the dancefloor.
“I do know you and Lauren will proceed to ace that dance flooring. I will without end be your largest cheerleader,” she added.
