BBC Strictly Come Dancing Pete Wick's incredibly different first career before finding fame

Strictly Come Dancing’s Pete Wicks erstwhile had a precise astonishing and highly palmy vocation earlier TOWIE and world TV came knocking connected his doorway and helium changeable to fame

Strictly and TOWIE prima Pete Wicks says that "no 1 believes" him erstwhile helium tells them what helium utilized to bash for a occupation and however helium worked his mode up from the bottom.

Strictly Come Dancing fans person been lapping up world prima Pete Wicks performances with his nonrecreational spouse Jowita Przystal. The pair’s undeniable chemistry has sparked rumours of a romance and caput justice Shirley Ballas has adjacent commented connected a "smoldering look" during their quickstep to The Jam’s, Town Called Malice. But Shirley besides praised 36 twelvemonth aged Pete for his committedness to the BBC endowment amusement and said his method skills were "improving week connected week". Pete is surely nary alien to hard enactment contempt astir lone knowing him for world TV aft helium joined TOWIE successful 2015.

He spoke astir his pre-fame vocation successful a filmed TOWIE interview, The Story of Pete Wicks backmost successful 2021 wherever helium shared details of his aboriginal life. Revealing that helium was "really sporty" successful school, helium said helium utilized to aquatics and tally nationally arsenic a boy. "I’m not a implicit doughnut judge it oregon not, contempt the information I bash world TV," helium said earlier adding successful his typically self-deprecating manner, "I was semi-intelligent - could person done a batch with my beingness - turns retired I didn’t."

That’s not wholly existent though due to the fact that aft moving arsenic a solid collector successful an Essex barroom astir the property of 13 and past connected a gathering site, Pete ended up successful a highly palmy vocation successful London, wherever helium moved to. He explained: "When I near schoolhouse I thought I’d beryllium a millionaire by the clip I was 30 - that was a silly dream. I went and worked connected a gathering tract for a small spot past I went and did archetypal twelvemonth AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) due to the fact that I was rather bully astatine numbers. Didn’t similar that truly because, um, well, it was boring."

He continued: "Then a feline that I utilized to know, his dada worked successful the metropolis and had a recruitment steadfast truthful I went and started successful the metropolis erstwhile I was astir 17 arsenic a beverage boy. By the clip I was 22 oregon truthful I was a income manager for recruitment companies supplying consultants to the NHS, judge it oregon not. No 1 believes that, but that’s what I did."

Pete lone discontinue his occupation due to the fact that the makers of TOWIE, which he’d ne'er watched, had been asking him to articulation for immoderate time. He yet agreed to bash 1 bid of the ITVBe show, chiefly due to the fact that his bully person James Lock, aka Lockie, starred successful it and due to the fact that helium "needed a spot of a change".

He explained: "When I archetypal joined I virtually agreed to bash it 3 days earlier I flew to Marbella for my archetypal bid and looked astatine it arsenic conscionable having a small vacation with Lockie and that was deity knows however galore bid ago." Pete went connected to go 1 of the show’s biggest stars and earned himself a estimation arsenic thing of a ladies man, dating the likes of Megan McKenna, Chloe Simms and Ella Rae Wise. He announced successful aboriginal 2023 that helium was quitting the bid aft 7 years to absorption connected different TV projects. He has besides appeared successful different shows specified arsenic Celebs Go Dating, The Real Full Monty and astir precocious Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins.

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