'I thought I'd be back on Strictly in no time'

Amy’s struggle after chemo

- By Jen Pharo

STRICTLY star Amy Dowden has revealed she hit an “all-time low” after she finished cancer treatment.

The dancer, 34, said she thought she would waltz back on to the BBC talent show when she finally rang a hospital bell to mark the end of her chemotherapy for breast cancer.

But instead she had to come to terms with being bald, menopausal and too weak to dance.

Amy said: “I thought my life was going to get back to normal. I was deluded. I honestly thought I'd be back dancing on Strictly in no time.”

Instead she says her hair took much longer to grow back than she expected and she struggled with the menopause, brought on by the cancer treatment.

She admitted: “I was scared and petrified. It was a very daunting, difficult time.”

Amy was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2023, less than a year after marrying fellow professional dancer Benjamin Jones.