Amy Dowden has revealed that she was faced with many setbacks before finding fame on Strictly Come Dancing.
The 33-year-old star joined the BBC series back in 2017 and was the first Welsh professional dancer to take part in the programme. Over the years, she’s partnered EastEnders stars Brian Conley and James Bye and in 2019, she was a finalist with TV presenter Karim Zeroual.
Amy will be back on our screens next month with the second series of her BBC show Dare To Dance where she will coach a new group of inspirational individuals through a spectacular dance routine to surprise their unsuspecting family and friends with
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Despite finding fame on Strictly seven years ago, Amy has admitted that her career didn’t just fall in her lap and that she had to work hard to get where she is in now. Speaking to Daily Star and other press, she explained: “I’ve had many setbacks in my dancing journey. I didn’t just get there, it took years and years and years. Many rejections and attempts at something I didn’t quite get right.
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“I think it’s important for the contributors [of Dare To Dance] to realise that what you see on Strictly, me as a professional dancer and all the glitz and glam, it certainly wasn’t like that along the way. Still now, we might be given a group number that is not our comfort blanket and we really have to push and learn.
“I always try to get into their life and understand their job. I wouldn’t necessarily be able to do what they do. Like Rich is a firefighter, that’s incredible. I’m sure I don’t have the confidence to do what he does so to see him in his workplace, I think it important to understand their world as much as our world.”
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Throghout the four-part series, fans will see Amy a meet young woman who gave up dancing when she started to lose her sight and lost her confidence, a firefighter who harbours a secret love of dance, two friends preparing to dance at a big Windrush Day celebration and a Wrexham FC obsessed couple who have brought forward their wedding due to a cancer diagnosis.
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Amy, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year jus days into filming Dare To Dance, added: “The contributors are phenomenal and the word inspirational is said a lot but they really truly are and they came at a time I really needed them. Watching they fall in love with dancing, watching their progress as dancers and achieving that end goal was amazing. Most of them are still dancing now, they all deserve their moment and I’m so proud of them.”
Dare to Dance will air on BBC One Wales and iPlayer next month
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