Everything we know about Strictly Come Dancing star Pete Wicks’ ‘love triangle’ rumours

Rumours are continuing to swirl over Strictly Come Dancing star Pete Wicks’ relationship status, after he appeared to confirm a new romance with Love Island’s Maura Higgins.

The reality stars have been spotted kissing in public after it was claimed they’d shared a smooch at the Pride of Britain Awards afterparty last week.

But just weeks ago, Pete, 35, had fans wondering whether the infamous Strictly curse has struck between him and his dance partner Jowita Pryzstal.

Pete firmly shut down any rumours, saying he’s now very different to the ‘bad boy’ persona he once had, but his ex Chloe Sims has meanwhile insisted there’s ‘no smoke without fire’.

Towie star Chloe, 42, dated Pete from 2018 to 2020, and has addressed reports of the women ‘linked to him’.

Chloe said: ‘Pete is a right bloody charmer, even men go silly for him, straight men.

‘I used to look at him and think, what has this guy got? It’s so bizarre, men love him, women love him, older women, younger women, he’s just got something, this charm about him.

‘I can see why all these women would be linked to him, they probably are, there’s no smoke without fire.

‘I can see why people end up in these relationships on Strictly, they are spending all that time up close and personal, and I can see how these romances happen.’

She continued to MailOnline: ‘He’s a natural born flirt, people instantly fall for him, and I have witnessed it. We would go out to all sorts of events, and I would look and think woah, people literally fall for him instantly.

‘To look at him from afar and if you didn’t know him, he’s not my type in a million years, not even close, but whatever he has got, some magic power, I do not know.

‘But he must have that to even be on Strictly because they publicly said they would never have TOWIE on there so that’s how strong his charm is.’

Pete has previously shut down any romance rumours with both Jowita and Maura, though he’s been pictured kissing the latter since.

‘It’s been the same narrative for 11 years non-stop,’ he said on his Staying Relevant podcast with Sam Thompson, speaking about the Strictly curse rumours.

‘And yet you wake up on a Sunday morning and it’s stories that haven’t even happened.

‘For example, during the choreography, there’s a story been going around for two weeks saying me and Jowita kissed during the dance… everyone watched it on TV!

‘They called it a “passionate kiss”, it’s the choreography, and we didn’t.’

He also urged fans not to ‘believe everything you read’, blasting the endless rumours about the nature of his and Jowita’s relationship as ‘utter rubbish’.

Pete, who has also previously dated former Towie co-star Megan McKenna, has never publicly confirmed a relationship with Maura, though the pair have been pictured kissing.

Speaking on Olivia Attwood’s So Wrong It’s Right podcast earlier this month, Pete played coy over a possible romance with the Love Island legend, saying they’ve known each other ‘for a very long time’ and ‘get on very well’, but insisted they weren’t dating.

‘We’ve known each other for a very long time and we get on very well and there’s your answer,’ he said.

Metro.co.uk has approached Pete’s rep for comment.

Strictly Come Dancing continues on Saturday at 6.30pm on BBC One and iPlayer.

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