Strictly's Amy Dowden in tears on Lorraine as she admits she feels she's let JB Gill 'down'
Strictly Come Dancing’s Amy Dowden appeared on Lorraine this morning, Thursday 7 November, speaking out after leaving the 2024 series. Amy was forced to pull out of Strictly after sustaining a foot injury and chatting to Lorraine Kelly today, she tearfully confessed she felt like she'd let her dance partner, JB Gill, down.
Holding back tears, Amy said: “I’m going to do my best not to cry, and I know lots of people would say it’s an entertainment show. We were prepared that every week could be the dance off, but I’m gutted it’s ended this way. I feel like I’ve left JB down.”
Amy, 34, also added that watching the show airing this Saturday 9 November, from the side-lines will be “tough” as she wanted to celebrate one year since finishing chemotherapy on the dancefloor.
READ MORE:A Place In The Sun star Danni Menzies reveals heartbreaking reason she quit hit show
READ MORE:Kerry Katona fires back as she's compared to a duck after showing off new lips
She said: “Saturday is going to be tough because I really wanted to be dancing on that floor to show myself how far I’ve come in one year.”
She explained that Saturday November 9 marks a year since she rang the bell to mark the end of her chemotherapy treatment. The dancer revealed she had planned to dance the samba with her celebrity partner, JLS star JB, as she felt it would be a “joyful carnival happy dance”.
With Amy needing to avoid any hard impact on her leg and foot for another couple of weeks, Amy’s co-star Lauren Oakley will continue the competition with JB. Despite missing the rest of the 2024 competition, Amy hopes to return for the tour in the New Year. She added: "I have had a lot of setbacks. I am used to picking myself back up."
In a lengthy statement on her Instagram following the announcement from the BBC that Amy would no longer be participating in the competition, Amy expressed her devastation as she said: "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.”
She continued to thank JB for being the ‘perfect partner’ for her Strictly comeback and expressed her sadness at their ‘journey being cut short’. Amy also gave a shoutout to Lauren and said that she would be her and JB’s ‘biggest cheerleader”.
