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Nikita Kuzmin has praised Amber Davies for 'fighting for their spot' in Strictly Come Dancing as they trained for their next performance.

Amber was drafted in at the eleventh hour to replace an injured Dani Dyer in this year's line-up after the former Love Island winner fractured her ankle during training for her first live performance.

Weeks on and Amber and Nikita are currently preparing to perform in week eight of the show's 2025 series, having successfully surpassed the mid-way point of the competition last weekend.

On Saturday (November 8), the pair were just beaten to the top of the latest leaderboard having scored 38 points, just behind Vicky Pattison and Kai Widdrington who received the best score of the night with 39 - out of a possible 40.

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