The reality dancing programme has already lost one dancer this week after Amy Dowden was forced to pull out of the competition after suffering an insufficiency stress fracture to her foot. The 34-year-old Welsh dancer had only just returned to Strictly in 2024, the show's 20th anniversary series, after missing out last year while undergoing cancer treatment. Dowden had been partnered up with JLS star JB Gill for this year's series of Strictly, but Lauren Oakley has now taken her place.
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