SHE'S one of Strictly's brightest stars, but only now has Amy Dowden revealed how hard she's had to fight a potentially deadly disease to achieve her dream.
Since her teens, the Welsh dancer, who's this year partnered with JJ Chalmers, has been working towards the burning ambition to be on the BBC1 show while constantly battling crippling Crohn's disease.
In a new documentary, Strictly Amy: Crohn's and Me, she faces the bittersweet realisation that the goal of getting on Strictly may have helped her overcome her illness, but the painful condition could one day bring her top flight career to an abrupt end.
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