{"id":324186,"date":"2025-12-19T06:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324186\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:57:12","slug":"strictly-star-amber-davies-hits-out-at-viewers-for-harsh-backlash-ahead-of-bbc-final-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324186\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly star Amber Davies hits out at viewers for harsh backlash ahead of BBC final"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amber Davies<\/a> has hit out at Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> viewers who have complained about her presence on the series.<\/p>\n

The former reality star\u2019s participation in the 2025 edition of the BBC<\/a> competition led to a debate due to her previous experience in West End musicals, and Davies has faced increased criticism in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the finale on Saturday (20 December)<\/a>, Davies has said that while she \u201cunderstands where people are coming from\u201d, she believes viewers \u201cdon\u2019t want to warm to\u201d her and are mistaking her confidence for arrogance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know what my purpose was on Strictly until I realised that I was getting a lot of negative comments for being good,\u201d she told The Mirror<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe I have to say this in 2025, but being ambitious as a woman, being confident, having dreams and working hard does not mean you are stuck up. It doesn\u2019t mean you are arrogant. I want to change that. It shouldn\u2019t even be the narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cI\u2019ve had lots of people say, \u2018I can\u2019t warm to her.\u2019 It\u2019s because they don\u2019t want to warm to me. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davies also highlighted that each series has a contestant who gets negative comments over their previous experience, stating: \u201cI feel like this isn\u2019t a new story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen it every single season, Layton Williams, Ashley Roberts, Danny Mac had it, so it didn\u2019t come as a surprise. But it\u2019s definitely only really amped up in the past couple of weeks,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\"\u2018I\u2018I had to fight to get into the final\u2019: Amber Davies and her \u2018Strictly\u2019 partner Nikita Kuzmin (BBC)<\/p>\n

Davies acknowledged she has more dancing experience compared to the other finalists, but stressed that musical theatre is the \u201cpolar opposite\u201d of other dances she\u2019s had to perform throughout the series. <\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve worked just as hard as the other finalists,\u201d she said. \u201cI had to fight to get into the final; we are here for entertainment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was given this opportunity. Nobody was going to decline Strictly as a Strictly fan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davies, who has starred in productions of Pretty Woman, 9 to 5: The Musical, and The Great Gatsby, will compete in the show\u2019s grand final with her professional partner Nikita Kuzmin <\/a>after winning a tense dance-off last weekend against actor Balvinder Sopal and her partner Julian Caillon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s other finalists are former Lioness Karen Carney and YouTuber George Clarke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-324186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}