Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden will miss Saturday’s present after she fell ailing throughout filming on the weekend.
Fellow skilled dancer Lauren Oakley will take her place, pairing up with Dowden’s celeb companion JB Gill.
A Strictly Come Dancing spokesperson mentioned: “Amy Dowden MBE is doing significantly better and the Strictly household ship her love and need her effectively.
“She is delighted that fellow skilled dancer, Lauren Oakley, is ready to step in for rehearsals and to carry out in Saturday’s present for JB Gill’s couple’s selection dance. We’re all hopeful that Amy can be again to bounce with JB subsequent week.”
It had beforehand been introduced that Oakley would prepare on Monday with Gill, a former member of the boyband JLS.
However the BBC confirmed the pair will now keep collectively for the remainder of the week, together with their televised efficiency on Saturday night and the outcomes present broadcast on Sunday.
Dowden collapsed backstage throughout Saturday night time’s predominant present. An ambulance was referred to as to Elstree Studios in Borehamwood on Saturday when Dowden started feeling unwell.
She had returned to the Strictly line-up this yr, having missed the 2023 sequence after being identified with breast most cancers.
A spokesperson for the dancer mentioned the ambulance “was referred to as as a precaution” and that she was now “feeling significantly better”.
Oakley, who doesn’t have a star companion this yr, joined the BBC present in 2022.
Final yr, Oakley was partnered with Channel 4 Information presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy. The pair completed in eighth place.
Gill and Dowden obtained a rating of 32 on Saturday night time after performing a foxtrot to Dancing In The Moonlight by Toploader.
Dowden didn’t seem in Sunday night’s outcomes present as she was taken to hospital earlier than it was filmed.
The dancer was initially identified with stage three breast most cancers aged 32 in Might 2023, after discovering a lump in her breast the day earlier than she went on her honeymoon.
The now-34-year-old was identified once more with “one other sort of most cancers” later that very same yr and commenced chemotherapy.
She returned to hospital in August 2024 for additional assessments, as docs have been involved about abnormalities in her breast after a check-up. She was later given the all-clear.
Dowden additionally has Crohn’s illness – a lifelong situation which causes elements of the digestive system to turn into infected – and has beforehand spoken about its toll on her well being.
