Pete Wicks and Maura Higgins FINALLY confirm romance with a kiss at Pride of Britain afterparty

Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks and Love Island's Maura Higgins confirmed their romance arsenic they shared a buss astatine the Pride of Britain afterparty

Maura Higgins and Pete Wicks confirmed their romance astatine the Pride of Britain afterparty.

The mates shared a saccharine buss successful the Red Bar of London's Grosvenor House Hotel, wherever they partied until 1am, The Mirror tin exclusively reveal.

The brace person antecedently played it chill astir their rumoured relationship, but made it wide to onlookers astatine the enactment that they were an item, sharing a tender infinitesimal successful a country earlier Maura planted a buss connected his nose, and past shared a buss connected the lips together.

The brace articulation a agelong database of celebrities who person recovered emotion astatine the ceremony, including Christine and Frank Lampard, who met astatine the 2009 ceremonial and are present happily joined with 2 children.

Love Island’s Maura, 33, and TOWIE’s Pete, 36, were archetypal seen sharing a buss successful August, extracurricular the Broadwick edifice successful Soho, but the brace person poked amusive astatine the gossip - with Maura adjacent wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the photograph, and a slogan which read: “We can’t beryllium friends.”

Maura had been cheering connected Pete and his person Sam Thompson as they recorded their Staying Relevant podcast unrecorded unneurotic astatine Hammersmith Apollo.

Earlier this week, they shared a TikTok video of them practising creation moves together, arsenic Pete continues successful Strictly Come Dancing.

Their romance has intelligibly heated up, arsenic they enactment connected a loved up show astatine the ceremony, though they person some downplayed their romance.

Pete was antecedently grilled astir the rumours by their communal friend, Olivia Attwood, who quizzed him: “Your dating life. Maura Higgins.” Pete replied coyly, answering: “Me and Maura person known each different for a agelong time.”

Later astatine the Pride of Britain party, Maura asked Strictly dancer Kai Widdrington for assistance stretching retired a cramp arsenic the past partygoers moved into the edifice lobby to proceed the festivities.

On Saturday’s Strictly, Pete and Jowita Przystal performed a rumba regular to Don’t Look Back In Anger saw their faces pressed adjacent unneurotic and tons of lifts.

Judge Craig Revel Horwood called the lifts “totally illegal”, and said successful a contention determination could beryllium a “disqualification” for the moves, but praised Wicks for the enactment that had gone into the dance. The judges awarded Wicks and Przystal 22 points.

During the Pride of Britain ceremony, Pete and his adjacent friend, Made In Chelsea prima Sam Thompson, were tasked with encouraging celebrities and different attendees to donate to the Child of Courage victor Florrie Bark’s charity, BeMoreFab.

Florrie had the country successful hysterics arsenic she shouted: “Get each of them! Round them up! Get Duncan Ballantyne! Before helium hides.”

The Dragon was impressed with her attitude, and donated £30,000 to her charity, with much than £100,00 raised wide from the generous attendees.

Masked Singer big Joel Dommett and Strictly’s Oti Mabuse, who presented her Child of Courage award, told Florrie: “You are 1 of the astir inspirational radical I’ve ever met. You airy up each room.”

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