Asserting the information, a Strictly Come Dancing spokesperson stated: “Sadly, Amy Dowden MBE is not going to be partaking in the remainder of the competitors this yr.
“While Amy focuses on her restoration following a foot damage, fellow Skilled Dancer, Lauren Oakley, will step in as JB’s dance companion.
“The well being and wellbeing of everybody concerned in Strictly are all the time the utmost precedence. The entire Strictly household sends Amy love and properly needs.”
The Welsh dancer, 34, made a return to the superstar contest this yr after present process remedy for breast most cancers and had been partnered with JLS star JB Gill.
JB Gill will now dance with new companion for the rest of Strictly
He’ll now be paired with skilled Lauren Oakley, who had been and not using a superstar this yr and stepped in to exchange Dowden on final weekend’s present.
The information was introduced on Monday night (November 4) in the course of the present’s spin-off programme Strictly: It Takes Two.
On Saturday, Dowden watched within the studio as Gill and Oakley danced to a Bruno Mars medley and earned the joint-highest rating of this yr’s sequence.
Dowden had been taken ailing in the course of the stay present the earlier weekend and missed the Sunday outcomes programme.
She was taken to Barnet Hospital from the BBC One present’s manufacturing centre, Elstree Studios, as a “precaution” after “feeling unwell”, a spokesman for Dowden stated 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.
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After remedy for stage three breast most cancers, she introduced in February that assessments confirmed she had “no proof of illness”.
The Caerphilly dancer has documented each her most cancers journey and dwelling with Crohn’s illness on a lot of BBC reveals.
She fronted the BBC programme Strictly Amy: Crohn’s And Me, which she stated helped her “settle for” her personal situation for the “first time ever” after assembly different individuals with the bowel illness.
Dowden, who was admitted to hospital in Manchester following a Crohn’s flare-up in the course of the 2022 Strictly stay tour, stated the BBC present inspired her to entrance Strictly Amy: Most cancers And Me through which she spoke about her fertility and well being points.
