Dianne Buswell, the star of the BBC series 2025, addressed the criticism she has received for keeping up her dance career while giving birth to her first child.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Dianne Buswell has clapped back at online critics with a succinct statement, declaring she’s “had enough”. The red-haired professional dancer, who is currently lighting up the 2025 series of the hit BBC show alongside Aussie actor Stefan Dennis, is the first pregnant woman to dance on the show.
Dianne and her celeb partner Stefan were noticeably absent from last weekend’s episode due to Stefan falling ill, which unfortunately led to them missing out on the Movie Week special. However, they returned this week to dance a charleston on Saturday (18 October).
Some judges praised their performance as their best so far, and they were dancing to Tones And I’s Dance Monkey. Fans were in awe of Dianne’s agility, which included cartwheels and running down the Strictly staircase, as a result of their routine, which received a score of 26 out of a possible 40.
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However, not all viewers were happy, so Dianne addressed some of the harsh criticism she received for dancing while expecting a child on Instagram. While pregnant, she shared a comment on Instagram that read, “I feel so uneasy watching Dianne cartwheel, run down the stairs in heels, and do tricks.
“Your centre of gravity is off while you’re pregnant, just takes one slip to fall on the precious bump. She is a true professional and fabulous dancer but I think it might have been wise to sit this season out. She is 36 so classed as advanced maternal age mother regardless of how fit she is, I think BBC made a mistake here,” reports the Express.
They continued by noting that Amy Dowden also took part in the BBC competition last year whilst facing health issues, adding: “It just doesn’t make sense. Like it didn’t make sense to give Amy a celebrity partner last year and look what happened there.” Fed up, Dianne shared her own thoughts as she reposted the comment, writing: “I have honestly had enough of comments like these.”
Thankfully, the majority of fans were incredibly supportive of the dancer and offered encouragement rather than criticism.
Literally, one fan argued, “I feel so bad she’s getting these comments as if she would ever do anything that would harm the baby!”
If she wasn’t a professional dancer doing all of this while she was pregnant, but her body is used to doing it, she said.
Another chimed in, “Amy didn’t have an ankle injury last year?” Anyone can experience that, and it has no bearing on having cancer! When and how to slow down and cut back, Diane will be aware of this and make her own decision.
a third person responded, “She’s pregnant, not sick. She must have good sense, I’m sure, to listen to her own body.
The 36 year old professional dancer confirmed earlier this year that she and YouTuber Joe Sugg are expecting their first child together. Since then, her fans have been quick to question whether she should continue performing some of the show’s more challenging lifts.
Chatting with comedian Chris McCausland on his Winning Isn’t Everything podcast, Dianne clarified exactly what her doctor had advised her following her pregnancy announcement. She revealed: “Because we did quite a lot of lifts that were quite high impact – well, look, I’m still doing everything that I did before. Obviously, with lifts, there’s just going to be a bit more caution.
However, my doctor assured me that everything is normal. He said that essentially, if you’ve already done it, such as if you’ve done lifts, this, that, you’ve done it, then you should keep doing it.
He said that because you’ve danced since you’ve been five, your body has been designed to do it. You shouldn’t stop doing what he said. You just need to be careful with lifting because it’s so obvious.
Source: Mirror
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