Amy Dowden will participate in Strictly Come Dancing’s reside tour after recovering from an damage.
The 34-year-old from Caerphilly in South Wales was initially partnered with JLS singer JB Gill on this 12 months’s collection.
However the skilled dancer was compelled to withdraw from the competitors after week six resulting from a foot damage.
Lauren Oakley partnered Gill for the remainder of the collection and so they reached Saturday’s remaining.
They had been considered one of 4 {couples} who reached the ultimate present, received by comic Chris McCausland and his associate Dianne Buswell.
Gill will carry out with each dance companions all through the 30-show tour.
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Lauren Oakley partnered with Krishnan Guru-Murthy final 12 months.
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This 12 months’s collection was the primary time in two years that Dowden had a star associate after she underwent therapy for breast most cancers.
In February, Dowden confirmed her newest well being examine had discovered “no evidence” of the illness.
After she left the competitors in November, Dowden stated the damage that prompted her to drag out of the competitors had “nothing to do with any previous health scares”.
The tour will see seven of this 12 months’s {couples} performing a few of their most memorable routines.
All 4 of the competitors’s judges – Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke – will participate, together with tour presenter Janette Manrara.
Manrara stated it will likely be “a joy to welcome back the lovely Amy Dowden” as an “extra special treat” for followers.
The celebrities participating within the reside tour had been revealed earlier within the month with the pairings now revealed to be; skilled dancer Michelle Tsiakkas and EastEnders star Jamie Borthwick, Kai Widdrington and Olympian Montell Douglas, and Katya Jones with opera singer Wynne Evans.
Becoming a member of them will probably be Aljaz Skorjanec with Love Island star Tasha Ghouri, Vito Coppola and actress Sarah Hadland and Nancy Xu with singer Shayne Ward.
Dancers Buswell, Karen Hauer, Neil Jones, Nikita Kuzmin, Jowita Przystal, Robbie Kmetoni and Jake Leigh, will even carry out.
McCausland, who’s the primary blind contestant to win the present, is not going to participate within the tour resulting from scheduling conflicts together with his stand-up tour.
The UK reside tour will go to 9 cities in complete, specifically Birmingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and London.
