The BBC has announced that former Love Island winner Amber Davies will replace Dani Dyer on Strictly Come Dancing.
Davies, who won the third series of the ITV reality show in 2017, will be paired with Nikita Kuzmin after Dyer quit the series due to a fractured ankle.
After Love Island. davies embarked on an acting career and has had musical theatre roles in 9 to 5: The Musical, Bring It On, Back to the Future and Pretty Woman. Next year, she will play Reese Witherspoon’s role in a Legally Blonde musical.
Dyer said she was heartbroken she had to quit the show in an emotional post met with support from her fellow competitors, including Vicky Pattinson and Thomas Skinner.
“I had a fall on Friday in rehearsals and landed funny,” Dyer said, adding that doctors had advised her to pull out of the show.
“I thought I had rolled my foot but it swelled up badly over the weekend and after an MRI scan yesterday, it turns out I have fractured my ankle.”
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