{"id":44469,"date":"2025-09-26T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44469\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:30:06","slug":"actress-and-podcaster-joins-strictly-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/44469\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress and podcaster joins Strictly line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amber Davies, who is an actress, West End star and former Love Island winner is to replace Dani Dyer in the Strictly Come Dancing line-up. <\/p>\n

TV personality Dyer had to withdraw from the show<\/a> earlier this week after breaking her ankle.<\/p>\n

Davies, who is also a podcaster, will make her Strictly debut on Saturday – the first live show of the series – and will be dancing the waltz with Nikita Kuzmin, having just started rehearsals with him.<\/p>\n

She won Love Island in 2017 and has since had roles in musical theatre, including in Pretty Woman, 9 to 5: The Musical, and The Great Gatsby. <\/p>\n

“This has been the craziest 24 hours of my life,” the Welsh actress said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve watched Strictly with my family since I was younger and to now be part of the show is a dream come true.”<\/p>\n

She added she would “give it my all” and sent Dyer “well wishes for a speedy recovery”.<\/p>\n

Davies, who was recently announced as the lead for next year’s Legally Blonde musical tour<\/a>, also competed in the 16th series of Dancing on Ice.<\/p>\n

She presented the 2019 documentary Amber and Dolly: 9 to 5 for ITVBe, where she flew to Nashville to meet and interview Dolly Parton, and also acted in CBBC’s drama Almost Never in the same year.<\/p>\n

Dyer was the second celebrity to withdraw before the contest had even begun, following Game of Thrones actor Kristian Nairn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amber Davies, who is an actress, West End star and former Love Island winner is to replace Dani…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-44469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}