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Amber Davies Addresses Strictly Backlash, Says Rehearsals Left Her in Tears Before Movie Week

After stepping in at short notice, the West End performer says her ballroom learning starts from scratch, calling training exhausting.

Overview

  • Drafted in days before the first live show to replace the injured Dani Dyer, Davies partnered with Nikita Kuzmin and later topped week two’s leaderboard with a samba scoring 29.
  • In a This Morning interview, she argued musical theatre and ballroom are different disciplines and said even basic American Smooth steps brought her to tears.
  • Davies described engaging “every single muscle” to keep frame and footwork, adding that the mental load has her running choreography in the middle of the night.
  • Kuzmin praised her commitment, calling her the best student he has worked with and highlighting her intensive note-taking and practice.
  • For Movie Week, the pair are set to dance an American Smooth to Sixteen Going On Seventeen from The Sound of Music, with Cynthia Erivo confirmed as guest mentor.