'I am ambitious and confidence comes across as being stuck up': Amber Davies says trolling is 'getting worse' as she reflects on the 'nasty comments' she received on Strictly
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Amber Davies has reflected on the 'nasty comments' she received during her stint on Strictly Come Dancing.
The Welsh star, 29, joined the BBC show as a last minute replacement for injured Dani Dyer, and throughout the show she suffered a fair share of backlash due to her theatrical background.
Before reality TV fame, Amber trained in musical theatre, graduating from Urdang, a performing arts university, on a full scholarship.
Her first professional role was in the West End show 9 to 5, produced by global superstar Dolly Parton, and she has since gone on to star in six more musicals.
Of the trolling, Amber told The Guardian: 'Well, I'm a woman. I am ambitious. And [people think] confidence comes across as being stuck-up. But if you're too sweet, you're fake, so you can't do anything right.'
Amber Davies has reflected on the 'nasty comments' she received during her stint on Strictly Come Dancing
When Amber survived the dance off against Lewis Cope she was bombarded with cruel comments, forcing her professional partner Nikita Kuzmin to address the hate at the time
Amber thinks trolling is getting worse since she first found fame. She said: 'With TikTok, when people jump on a bandwagon, they go for it. But I feel like the nasty comments I was getting [on Strictly] weren’t actually coming from the younger audience, they came from the older audience.'
When Amber survived the dance off against Lewis Cope she was bombarded with cruel comments, forcing her professional partner Nikita Kuzmin to address the hate on the show at the time.
He said 'you have had so much hate, every single day'.
In December, Amber, who made it through three dance-offs and reached the series' final, said the contest 'completely changed her'.
She said: 'Being in the dance offs, I'm kind of glad that happened because it was character building for me to see, "OK, how am I gonna deal with this?" I've had to be kinder to myself.
'What Strictly's given me is the space to be a lot more comfortable in myself.
'It has completely changed me. I have loved every second of it. It has honestly been the greatest experience of my life.'
The Welsh star, 29, joined the BBC show as a last minute replacement for injured Dani Dyer, and throughout the show she suffered a fair share of backlash due to her theatrical background
Amber is now set to star in West End show Legally Blonde, playing lead character Elle Woods (pictured)
'It has completely changed me. I have loved every second of it. It has honestly been the greatest experience of my life,' Amber told Strictly viewers last month (pictured with Nikita)
After her show dance, where she achieved an overall score of 39 from the judges host Claudia asked her: 'What would you like to say to the people who have supported you?'
An emotional Amber responded: 'The feeling of people of voting for you is a wild concept and it is such an overwhelming feeling, so if you have voted for us and supported us along the way, you're the reason we're here, so I just want to say thank you so much'.
She then added: 'And if you've sent a kind or generous word on social media, we also appreciate that so much, so thank you.
'It's just been the best experience of my life and dancing with you has been the greatest honour.'
Talking about the fact she was a late replacement for when Dani Dyer injured herself, she continued: 'I have learned so much in four months and I wasn't even supposed to be here, so the fact I've gained this knowledge to go into my career with, I have so much to thank Strictly for.'
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