Strictly's Pete Wicks is 'showboating' to win votes - and the judges should have noticed

Professional dancer Brendan Cole has deed retired astatine Strictly Come Dancing prima Pete Wicks, claiming that helium is 'showboating' with spouse Jowita Przystał successful a bid to summation votes

Strictly Come Dancing prima Brendan Cole has claimed that Pete Wicks is 'showboating' connected the BBC competition.

Former Strictly nonrecreational Brendan, 48, has insisted that judges Anton du Beke, Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse, and Craig Revel-Horwood 'should person picked up on' Pete's techniques. Former TOWIE prima Pete, 36, is partnered up with nonrecreational Jowita Przystał and since the amusement archetypal kicked disconnected past month, viewers person been mesmerised by their on-screen chemistry.

However, Brendan feels arsenic though the creation duo are purposely playing up the romanticist space successful a bid to enactment connected the amusement and support the involvement of viewers.

The erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing nonrecreational insisted that erstwhile it comes to dancing, Pete is 'not that great'. However, helium added that it's his charm, personality, and magnetic property - arsenic good arsenic his transportation with Jowita - which has drawn viewers successful and kept them hooked.

Brendan, who is currently moving with Sky Vegas, told The Mirror: “People are enjoying Pete Wicks' journey, but the dancing is not great. The Rumba was precise romantic, and they're evidently playing connected the romance broadside of things - they astir apt tried to buss each different astir 16 times successful that Rumba. I'm amazed it wasn't picked up by the judges.

“Rumba doesn't needfully person to [involve] kissing - it tin beryllium romanticist and beautiful, but they're evidently wanting to bash that. I truly similar what helium does retired there, what helium says, the mode he's playing it. I similar the information he's got tattoos everyplace and he's doing a bully ballroom [dance]. They’re not going anyplace anytime soon.”

It comes arsenic Jowita, 30, precocious addressed romance speculation surrounding her and personage creation spouse Pete. The nonrecreational dancer acknowledged they stock "very bully chemistry together" earlier clarifying the quality of their relationship.

Since being paired connected the show, Jowita and Pete person displayed a beardown enslaved connected and disconnected the creation floor, including her quality connected his podcast Staying Relevant and a reported 'cosy' brushwood implicit drinks. Their transportation sparked romance rumours, but Jowita acceptable the grounds consecutive astatine the Daily Mirror's Pride of Britain Awards connected Monday.

Speaking to OK! magazine connected the reddish carpet, she said: "We person precise bully chemistry unneurotic arsenic friends, we truly get connected good with each other, and we person truthful overmuch amusive together. And dancing is simply a spot similar acting, truthful we're telling a communicative each nighttime connected Saturday night, and I deliberation we're doing a beauteous bully occupation with that."

Jowita, portion discussing the pairing, admitted: "But we're precise bully friends, and I emotion him truthful overmuch arsenic a brother, and I deliberation we're going to enactment friends for life, to beryllium honest."

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