Strictly’s Pete Wicks backs Maura Higgins on I’m A Celeb with emotional plea to fans ahead of first eviction

PETE Wicks has issued a rallying outcry to I'm A Celeb viewers to backmost Maura Higgins and ballot for her to triumph the show.

Pete, who is presently competing successful Strictly Come Dancing connected BBC 1, shared a mocked-up representation from Maura's Instagram page, and told fans the 34-year-old is his prime to travel archetypal connected the ITV 1 show.

I'm A Celeb's archetypal eviction is owed to instrumentality spot tonight. (Friday November 29).

Pete reposted the mocked-up changeable of Maura, wherever she's successful a 1940s wartime-style outfit, with her hair tied backmost by a scarf, wearing a bluish jumpsuit, and flexing her close bicep.

Pete captioned the pic: "She tin bash it! But she needs your help! Vote to support our Maura successful the jungle."

The 36-year-old tagged his ain connection to the bottom, which reads: "There she is! My winner...Vote Maura @maurahiggins."

Maura's societal media accounts are being taken attraction of by her manager portion she's successful Australia, arsenic she won't person entree to immoderate mod cons during her clip connected the programme.

But it's not the archetypal clip Pete's commented connected 1 of her societal media posts.

After she managed to wolf down a load of vile concoctions successful a buffet-themed challenge, Pete responded online with: "WHAT A WOMAN."

The brace had been thought to beryllium dating aft being spotted kissing connected 1 occasion, and past attending an event astatine the London Palladium together, conscionable days earlier she jetted disconnected to Australia.

But aft arriving successful the jungle, erstwhile Love Island prima Maura stressed that though she wasn't needfully surviving the beingness of a nun, she didn't presently person a important different either.

She said: "I date, but I americium precise overmuch single."

However, portion competing connected the BBC's flagship Saturday nighttime show, The Only Way is Essex prima Pete, is besides said to person grown progressively adjacent to 30-year-old dancer Jowita.

Strictly sources antecedently told The Sun that things person truly started hotting up betwixt Pete and Jowita, and not conscionable connected the creation floor.

An insider said: “The chemistry betwixt them has been beauteous wide since the infinitesimal they met.

"But the past fewer weeks thing has changed and they’ve started seeing each different distant from the show.

“They’ve tried to support it low-key but they often question unneurotic alternatively than getting separate cars to antithetic locations."

Jowita divided up with her semipermanent partner, chap dancer Michael Danilczuk successful 2022, the aforesaid twelvemonth she won the Glitterball trophy with wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin.