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Amy Dowden has been snapped smiling widely as she made her way to the Strictly Come Dancing studio for her first appearance on the live show this year, after she was forced to pull out of the competition due to her cancer treatment.
The Welsh dancer, who joined the show in 2017, joined her fellow professionals for a photo as they filmed the group dance for the launch show, but this will be Amy's first visit to the live show this series.
With her trademark beaming smile, the Caerphilly dancer arrived at Elstree Studios wearing a chic dark denim dress, white trainers and rocking a headscarf – after sharing a candid video of her shaving her head a few weeks ago.
Amy, 33, will no doubt be a guest of honour on tonight's show – after she announced she wouldn't be competing with a celebrity.
Amy smiled widely as she made her way to the Strictly Come Dancing studio (JAMES CURLEY AND MAGICMOMENTSUK)
Amy Dowden appeared in high spirits as she made her way from the Strictly hotel to the studio (ISO IMAGES LTD)Amy is currently undergoing chemotherapy after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in the spring. She is is currently undergoing her fifth cycle of chemotherapy and hopes to finish her treatment next month. She said: “I dream every night of being back on the dance floor. But I don’t want to set myself up for disappointment.”
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Earlier this week Amy detailed the devastating side effects of her treatment, including losing her hair. “I’m starting to lose my eyelashes, my hair follicles are dying, so your eyes stream more because they’re sensitive,” she explains. ”It’s more than that, though.” She also revealed that she developed the life-threatening side-effects that can come with chemo.
After her first chemo, Amy initially “felt great”, going for a five-mile walk with her dad two days later – but she collapsed soon after. “I had a temperature and didn’t realise the severity of having a temperature. I stood up, collapsed, Mum rang the emergency number and they said ‘phone an ambulance immediately’. From there everything got very serious.
“I remember going into hospital and them telling me I had an infection, but the following day it got very bad, I was unresponsive to antibiotics for hours. My last memory is a load of doctors around me in the early hours of Sunday morning. On Monday a nurse explained I had gone into septic shock. They said my blood pressure was that low my vital organs would have started failing.”
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