Former Love Island UK winner Amber Davies was a last-minute substitute on the BBC’s Strictly Coming Dancing, starting rehearsals just one day before the premiere.

“Guys, this day could go one or two ways. I might get a call to say, ‘You’re going to be on Strictly Coming Dancing on Saturday,’” Davies, 28, said in a TikTok video posted on Thursday, September 26. “Or I might be going to Swansea to spend the weekend with my niece for her first birthday, so a win is a win. What the hell-e?”

Davies, who won season 3 of Love Island UK with now-ex Kem Cetinay, received a phone call from the dance show’s production team just eight hours later.

“Well, I’m doing it,” she said in a later clip of her TikTok video. “Please be kind, and vote for me if you can. I’m doing this for Dani Dyer.”

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