BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks heartbreaking explanation for 'Pirate Pete' nickname

Strictly Come Dancing’s Pete Wicks archetypal changeable to fame connected TOWIE arsenic Pirate Pete but the crushed down the nickname isn’t conscionable due to the fact that of his agelong hairsbreadth and swarthy looks but is really precise sad

Strictly Pete Wicks’ mum was the idiosyncratic who gave him his Pirate alias arsenic a young lad and though helium laughs astir it, the crushed down it is owed to a puerility affliction.

Reality TV prima Pete Wicks has been undergoing thing of a carnal translation successful his assorted performances connected Strictly Come Dancing. He has agelong been known for his long, acheronian hair, beard and swarthy looks but fans of the BBC amusement were shocked erstwhile helium danced the Quickstep to The Jam’s, Town Called Malice sporting a dramatically antithetic haircut.

In keeping with the 50s stone n rotation outfits helium and nonrecreational spouse Jowita Przystal were wearing, the 36 twelvemonth old’s agelong locks had been styled up into a immense quiff with slicked backmost sides, which had viewers wondering if it was really Pete connected the dancefloor. Although helium does sometimes deterioration his hairsbreadth up successful a ponytail oregon antheral bun, helium has ne'er sported a abbreviated chopped since he’s been famous.

In information erstwhile helium joined world amusement TOWIE successful 2015, helium was introduced and became known arsenic Pirate Pete acknowledgment to his acheronian looks and buccaneer style. Although galore assumed the moniker was thing caller and had astir apt been fixed to him by friends, it was really archetypal conceived by his mum erstwhile helium was overmuch younger and it had thing to bash with his hairsbreadth due to the fact that helium was blonde arsenic a boy.

"Pete Wicks was blonde, abdominous and um, rather sociable and blessed - don’t cognize wherever it each went wrong," helium quipped during a filmed TOWIE interview, The Story of Pete Wicks successful 2021. He besides revealed precisely wherever his nickname came from and it wasn’t from his pals connected the ITVBe world show, but was due to the fact that of a carnal affliction. "Pirate Pete’s a spot of a comic one. I deliberation either Lockie oregon Jake Hall volition accidental that they came up with it but it really started years and years agone erstwhile I was a kid - my mum came up with it."

He continued: "So I had a lazy oculus arsenic a kid. I utilized to person 1 oculus that utilized to beryllium capable to spot astir corners, truthful I had to deterioration an oculus spot to fortify the lazy eye. So my mum called maine Pirate Pete, she was the archetypal 1 to telephone maine Pirate Pete and past evidently arsenic I got older and started to look similar I’d washed up connected a godforsaken land it benignant of stuck a small spot more. So present I’m similar the Lidl mentation of Johnny Depp, similar a truly s**t caricature."

A lazy oculus is besides known arsenic amblyopia and according to the NHS is erstwhile the imaginativeness successful 1 oculus doesn’t make properly. It tin origin a assortment of symptoms including shutting 1 oculus erstwhile looking astatine things oregon a squint wherever eyes look successful antithetic directions. It tin besides pb to headaches and tin origin the idiosyncratic to travel implicit oregon autumn a lot. Treatment whitethorn impact wearing an oculus spot implicit the stronger oculus for a fewer hours a time to fortify the imaginativeness successful the weaker one.

Pete besides revealed that dissimilar a batch of kids, helium didn’t beryllium for hours successful beforehand of the telly and would walk his days hunting successful the woods for his favourite thing. "As a kid I didn’t truly ticker a batch of TV," helium explained. "I was obsessed with sticks and dogs. Generally I utilized to slumber with a stick. I utilized to spell into Epping wood and find sticks and past I utilized to go obsessed with sticks. I don’t cognize why, I conscionable liked sticks - I similar sticks to people. Sticks person got a batch much property than a batch of this [TOWIE] cast, conscionable arsenic wooden," helium joked.

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