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Amber Davies has defended her inclusion in the Strictly Come Dancing line-up.

The former Love Island winner was drafted in as a late replacement on the BBC's Saturday night staple after Dani Dyer suffered an injury in rehearsals last month.

But she has been left frustrated by those who suggest that her musical theatre background gives her an unfair advantage on the show.

Amber - who has starred in West End productions of Back to the Future and The Great Gatsby - told the Daily Mail: "We see the same thing over and over again and I feel like it doesn't matter what I say or how I feel, if I'm struggling, people will of course have things to say because I do musical theatre.

"I have worked my a*** off to be taken seriously in the musical theatre world, and I feel like I

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