Amy Dowden will not take part in the rest of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing competition.
The professional dancer has been sidelined due to a foot injury and will now need time to recover, the BBC said. Amy worried fans by “feeling unwell” after the competition’s live show.
The Welsh dancer, 34, was taken to hospital on Saturday Amy was taken to Barnet Hospital from the BBC One show’s production centre, Elstree Studios, as a “precaution”.
During a chat on It Takes Two last week with Janette Manrara, Lauren Oakley and JB Gill, Amy said: “I’m feeling so much better and I’d just like to thank everyone for all the love and support I’ve received and to my Strictly family.”
Amy returned to competing in the BBC show this series after missing out last year due to undergoing cancer treatment.
In an Instagram post, she said she felt “free again” after getting to focus on choreography rather than cancer.
She wrote: “My heart is breaking right now. The past few months I finally felt like me again. 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 goal since hearing those words you have cancer was to get back on the strictly dance floor. It’s been such a challenge to get back, one I devoted 2024 too.
“Which with my incredible team we got there. Something I wanted to do for myself and loved ones. There was no feeling like it dancing again in the ballroom with my Strictly family.”
She also told her celebrity partner, JLS star JB Gill, and his new dance partner Lauren Oakley, that she will be their “biggest cheerleader” for the rest of the competition.