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amber davis has hit strictly come dance Viewers who have complained about his appearance in the series.
The former reality star’s participation in the 2025 edition of BBC The competition sparked debate due to his previous experience in West End musicals and Davies has faced more criticism in recent weeks.
Ahead of Ending on Saturday (20th December)Davis has said that while she “understands where people are coming from”, she believes audiences “don’t want to warm up to her” and are mistaking her confidence for arrogance.
“I didn’t know what my purpose was strictly Until I realized that being nice was getting a lot of negative comments,” she said. mirror,
“I can’t believe I have to say this in 2025, but as a woman, being ambitious, being confident, dreaming, and working hard doesn’t mean you’re stuck. It doesn’t mean you’re arrogant. I want to change that. That shouldn’t be the narrative either.”
She added: “I’ve said to a lot of people, ‘I can’t warm to him.’ This is because they don’t want to show warmth to me. That’s all.”
Davies also highlighted that each series has had a contestant who receives negative comments on their previous experience, saying: “I feel like this is not a new story.”
He said, “We’ve seen it every season, Layton Williams, Ashley Roberts, Danny Mac had it, so it wasn’t a surprise. But it’s definitely increased in the last few weeks.”
Davis acknowledged that she has more dance experience than the other finalists, but emphasized that musical theater is the “polar opposite” of the other dances she has had to do throughout the series.
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“I feel like I worked just as hard as the other finalists,” he said. “I had to fight to reach the finals; we are here to have fun.
“I was given this opportunity. No one was going to say no strictly As a strictly fan.”
Davis, who has starred in productions of beautiful woman, 9 to 5: musicalAnd the great GatsbyWill compete with her professional partner in the grand finals of the show Nikita Kuzmin after Winning a tense dance-off against actor Balwinder Sopal and his partner Julian Callan last weekend,
The show’s other finalists are former Lioness Karen Carney and YouTuber George Clarke.