Touchy-feely Pete Wicks & Strictly partner Jowita ‘closer than ever’ as Maura Higgins says ‘I’m very much single’

STRICTLY stars Pete Wicks and Jowita Przystal’s narration is revving up — with them sharing car rides.

Insiders assertion the touchy-feely brace are “closer than ever” now Pete’s past emotion involvement Maura Higgins has near to spell Down Under for I’m A Celebrity.

A root said the intensifying chemistry betwixt world prima Pete, 36, and Polish pro dancer Jowita, 30, is the talk of the amusement backstage.

They told The Sun: “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 abstracted cars to antithetic locations.

"And they’re truthful tactile backstage — it has go beauteous evident thing is going on.

“Everyone is talking astir the information they look person than ever.”

Motorbike-loving Pete, who recovered fame connected The Only Way Is Essex, was seen connected a day with Maura, 33, earlier successful this year’s Strictly series.

But erstwhile the ex-Love Island prima landed successful Oz this month, she said: “I date, but I’m precise overmuch single.”

Jowita divided from her semipermanent lover, dancer Michael Danilczuk, successful 2022, the aforesaid twelvemonth she won the BBC ballroom amusement with Hamza Yassin.

Our root went on: “It mightiness beryllium that Pete was waiting to spot what was going to hap with Maura. They’re some single.

"And she intelligibly feels the aforesaid mode from watching them distant from the cameras, truthful bully for them.”

Pete and Jowita are owed to bash the tango time nighttime to Phil Collins’ Easy Lover.