Strictly Come Dancing star Amber Davies tearfully admitted she “felt judged” in a clip shown before her second dance in the semi-final of the BBC show on Saturday December 13. The 29-year-old West End star appeared on the Love Island show in 2017 just four years after she had moved to London to pursue her dreams. However, in a video about her journey recorded for Strictly, she revealed the aftermath wasn’t what she expected.
“At 16, I moved to London. I was auditioning so much, and I just was not landing a job. I always remember thinking, Oh, I’m just not good enough,” she said. “I was 20 years old, an opportunity came up for me, and that, of course, was Love Island.” Her mother then chimed in to explain the fallout. “That year, it absolutely blew up. She’d gone in a young girl from Denby, and she’d come out this famous person experiencing negativity.”
“It was really, really hard. Every move I made, I felt like I was being judged by the whole world,” Amber said.
After her mother said she had “really lost her way” and had to “Sit down and t hink about what we can do” Amber revealed she made a huge decision.
“(I decided to) live life for me and not live life for other people. Because I felt like that’s what I was doing.”
Revealing her reasons for doing Strictly despite her previous negative experience on a reality show she said it is a “dream” to do the show.
“I have been a Strictly fan since I was a young girl so to be on the show it’s just literally a dream come true.
“I want to do this dance for any young girl who is ambitious and has a dream. Go for it. Reach for the stars. You can do anything if you put your mind to it,” she said.
Amber narrowly made the semi final having survived a dreaded dance off against former Emmerdale star Lewis Cope on Sunday December 7. Despite scoring a perfect 40 she found herself in the bottom two but the judges voted unanimously to save her and pro partner Nikita Kuzmin.
They are hoping to make the final of the show following their latest dances – a romantic Couple’s Choice to Fly Me to the Moon by Raye and a dramatic Tango to Higher by Michael Bublé.
