Amy Dowden surprises her Strictly colleagues on the Nottingham leg of their Strictly Come Dancing tour amid breast cancer battle
Amy Dowden surprised her Strictly colleagues during the Nottingham leg of the Strictly Come Dancing Live! tour on Tuesday.
The professional dancer, 33, appeared in every series of Strictly from 2017 to 2022, before her diagnosis in May meant she had to miss series 21.
On Tuesday, she and her husband Ben Jones visited Dianne Buswell, Nancy Xu, Vito Coppola, Carlos Gu and Katya Jones, and promised her 650,000 Instagram followers on Wednesday that there was more to come.
The couple recently returned home from their second honeymoon in Grenada, with Amy receiving luxurious head massages to stimulate her hair growth.
Amy, who married Ben in 2022, discovered a lump in her breast the day before flying to the Maldives for a belated honeymoon in April 2023, and admitted the holiday was ‘overshadowed by her cancer diagnosis’.
Amy Dowden surprised her Strictly colleagues during the Nottingham leg of the Strictly Come Dancing Live! tour on Tuesday (pictured with her husband Ben Jones, far right, Vito Coppola and Dianne Buswell)
The professional dancer, 33, appeared in every series of Strictly from 2017 to 2022, before her diagnosis in May meant she had to miss series 21 (pictured with Strictly Christmas special 2023 winner Nancy Xu)
On Tuesday she visited Dianne Buswell, Nancy Xu, Vito Coppola, Carlos Gu and Katya Jones, and promised her 650,000 Instagram followers on Wednesday that there was more to come
Amy joined Lorraine for a segment during an episode earlier this year, detailing how she got her ‘life back on track’.
The dancer began, “This past year has been tough…cancer diagnosis, treatment, a mastectomy and some setbacks, but I am determined to get my life back on track. Finally we’re on our honeymoon in Grenada!’
She added: “A very different feeling to when we were on our honeymoon in the Maldives because you (Ben) didn’t know but I obviously had a cloud over me, I was present on my first honeymoon but that was I really don’t because I found the lump, I hid it from Ben.
“Before I came to Grenada, I had seven appointments in one week last week, so coming here and getting some vitamin D, escaping hospital wards and appointments and medications is just beautiful!”
The annual Strictly tour started on January 19 and ends on February 11.
This concerns the following Strictly couples: Ellie Leach, Bobby Brazier Annabel Croft & Graziano Di Prima, Angela Rippon & Kai Widdrington, Layton Williams & Nikita Kuzmin, Krishnan Guru-Murthy & Jowita Przystal, And Angela Scanlon.
Layton shared a bowling alley selfie on his Instagram Story on Wednesday with Nikita and another visitor to the tour: Tilly Ramsay.
The topic of the tour was the relationship between former Coronation Street actress Ellie, 22, who won Strictly with Vito in December, and EastEnders actor Bobby, 20.
The couple had just returned home from their second honeymoon in Grenada, during which she received luxurious head massages to stimulate her hair growth (photo with Carlos)
The annual Strictly tour started on January 19 and ends on February 11 (pictured, Amy surprises her colleagues)
Layton shared a selfie on his Instagram Story on Wednesday with Nikita and another visitor to the tour: Tilly Ramsay