A Waterloo Highway actress is reportedly being lined up as a attainable alternative after Love Island’s Dani Dyer needed to pull out of Strictly Come Dancing resulting from an ankle damage

A Waterloo Highway star is reportedly in talks to interchange Dani Dyer on strictly-come-dancing>Strictly Come Dancing.

Actress Tillie Amartey, famed for enjoying Stacey Neville in Waterloo Highway, is claimed to be in discussions for the BBC present after Dani was compelled to drop out of the competitors. The Love Island star fell and fractured her ankle throughout rehearsals on Friday (19 September).

Dani, the daughter of cleaning soap star Danny Dyer, was resulting from dance with 27-year-old skilled dancer Nikita Kuzmin. It is now claimed Tillie – who took half in Strictly Come Dancing’s Christmas particular in 2023 and danced with Neil Jones – might be introduced in on the final minute.

A supply advised The Solar: “Tillie not too long ago stop her position on Waterloo Highway, telling friends it was to make method for ‘one other huge’ mission, which might be a sport changer for her profession. She’s been making a number of journeys from her Leeds residence to London for discussions with TV execs in current weeks.

“The sensation is that if she is filling the sneakers vacated by Dani, the programme wants one other younger, glam girl to take her spot. There’s already an imbalance within the genders among the many celebrities, as there are 9 males participating and 6 girls.

“It is important the variety of females participating does not drop additional, they usually need to attempt to keep an identical stability by way of the number of ages too.”

The supply continued: “Tillie is extremely bold and onerous working and, though she is simply 22 years previous, she’s already made nice strides within the trade – however desires to go a lot, a lot additional. If she does join Strictly, she will probably be utilizing it very a lot as a platform for even larger issues and will certainly give it her all.”

Nevertheless, it is also claimed Tillie just isn’t in talks to interchange Dani, 29, on the present. A supply advised MailOnline that: “Tillie hasn’t had any contact with Strictly Come Dancing. Bosses nonetheless do not know if they’re changing Dani but.”

Strictly Come Dancing Head Choose Shirley Ballas mentioned she hopes Dani will probably be changed because the present is now a dancer down.

She advised ITV’s This Morning on Wednesday (September 24): “I did communicate to [Strictly Come Dancing’s] Govt Producer, making an attempt to get a solution for you this morning, however they’re hustling and bustling to see what they will do, and the way they will do it.

“We’re a dancer down, so it is both any individual’s not going to go residence the primary week, or one thing like that. However let’s hope that they get any individual else, and any individual else will get the chance to share our present.”

Dani mentioned she is “heartbroken” that her damage has compelled her to exit the competitors early. She mentioned in an announcement: “I had a fall on Friday in rehearsals and landed humorous.

“I believed I had rolled my foot, however it swelled up badly over the weekend, and after an MRI scan yesterday, it seems I’ve fractured my ankle. Apparently, doing the quickstep on a fracture just isn’t advisable, and the medical doctors have mentioned I’m not allowed to bounce, so I’ve needed to pull out of the present.”

However regardless of not with the ability to participate, Dani insisted she will probably be watching this 12 months’s Strictly and will probably be cheering on her co-stars from residence. She mentioned: “I’m so going to overlook dancing with Nikita however will after all be watching intently and cheering all of the {couples} on.”

Recreation of Thrones actor Kristian Nairn, 49, was initially set to participate on this 12 months’s Strictly Come Dancing, however he withdrew from the competitors for medical causes. Emmerdale actor Lewis Cope, 30, changed him.

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