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25.02.2024 - 06:35 / ok.co.uk
In the past nine months, Amy Dowden has battled grade three breast cancer, undergone a mastectomy and chemotherapy, beaten sepsis and broken her foot - but her smile is brighter than ever. Ordinarily, the Welsh dancer would have just finished the Strictly Come Dancing live tour after yet another successful BBC series, but for the first time in six years, Amy had to sit both out due to her cancer diagnosis. “I’m getting stronger day by day,” she smiles, sporting a chic buzz cut as her hair is growing back after treatment finished in November.
“I’m building up to get back on the dance floor.” The 33-year-old Strictly professional is back on BBC One Wales for the second series of Amy Dowden’s Dare To Dance, where she teaches extraordinary people the magic of movement. From a Wrexham couple planning their upcoming wedding to a young woman who gave up dance after losing her sight and confidence, Amy helps many well-deserving folk feel comfortable on that ballroom floor in the four-part series. It was while she was filming the show in May last year that she was given her devastating breast cancer diagnosis, putting Amy in a tough position.
“We started filming and I met all the contributors and asked them to take on this challenge. I’d given them their first few steps and then I was diagnosed,” she sighs. “But I was determined to keep the series going.
For contributors Debbie and Chris, I’d just told them I was going to help them with their wedding dance. How could I take that away from them? I would feel so guilty and so bad.” Amy ploughed on with production, grateful for a distraction from her health scare. “I needed some normality to get me away from my actual reality,” she adds.
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Amy Dowden is returning for a second series of her BBC Wales show Dare to Dance, teaching extraordinary people across Wales how to strut their stuff on the ballroom floor once again. However for this series, Amy had to lean on her Strictly Come Dancing colleagues for help when she was diagnosed with breast cancer during filming. The Strictly star has spent the last nine months battling grade three breast cancer, undergoing a mastectomy and chemotherapy in treatment after starting to shoot Dare to Dance.