Strictly Come Dancing star and former Love Island winner Amber Davies has spoken out on the romance rumours surrounding herself and professional partner Nikita Kuzmin
Amber Davies has addressed the romance rumours surrounding herself and her Strictly Come Dancing partner Nikita Kuzmin. The musical theatre actress, 29, who launched a career treading the boards after finding fame as the winner of Love Island in 2017, is in a relationship with Ben Joyce but has been spotted ‘getting close’ to her co-star from the BBC One dancing show in recent days, even though he is currently dating model Lauren Jaine.
Amber and Nikita almost kissed towards the end of their Argentine tango routine earlier in the competition, and all of this has had fans wondering whether the pair are the latest to fall for the Strictly curse. Addressing the rumours head on, Amber said: “The only good thing is Ben is not a***d.
“So I feel like I can brush it off as it is not affecting us in any way which is nice. I mean he is horizontal Ben. I love Lauren, Nikita’s girlfriend so much. I text her all the time. All day, every day.”
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Speaking about her close friendship with Nikita’s significant other, Amber continued in a chat with The Sun: “Lauren spends more time with me than her fella. She actually came into my dressing room before she went to see Nikita [the other day]. I have stolen her!”
The former Dancing On Ice contestant trained at a prestigious London drama school before finding fame, and has starred in a UK tour of Pretty Woman: The Musical, and recently completed a stint in the West End production of The Great Gatsby.
Just days before Amber was confirmed as a replacement on Strictly for fellow Love Island winner Dani Dyer, who had to drop out before the first live show after sustaining an injury, it was announced that Amber had bagged the leading role of Elle Woods in a new touring production of Legally Blonde: The Musical. She will be following on from Sheridan Smith, Lucie Jones and Faye Brookes, all of whom have played the sorority-girl-turned-lawyer made famous by Reese Witherspoon in the 2001 comedy.
But Amber told listeners of her Call To Stage podcast that even that had come about last minute, as she was thrust into the final round of auditions on the very day she and Ben were in the middle of moving into their new home. The pair met when they were starring together in Back To The Future at the Adelphi Theatre in 2022.
According to an insider at Elstree Studios, where Strictly is filmed, Amber and Nikita are in ‘their own little world’ both off stage and on.
They said: “The couple are described as being locked in their own little world at times and the chemistry between them has raised eyebrows amongst their Strictly colleagues,” and also noted that there is an ‘undeniable spark’ between the Love Island winner and her partner.
Despite this, Amber has previously stressed that her boyfriend has no worries about her performing passionate routines with her Strictly professional dance partner Nikita.
She said: “It’s normal in our industry, I’ve watched him kiss someone else on stage, he has watched me fall in love with somebody on stage. My boyfriend is obsessed with this dance; he thinks it’s the best routine I have done.”
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