{"id":38568,"date":"2025-09-23T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38568\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:40:09","slug":"this-is-the-very-intimate-moment-i-saw-jowita-przystal-and-pete-wicks-share-in-a-corridor-a-year-before-their-onstage-kiss-and-the-truth-about-their-intense-connection-grant-tucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38568\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the VERY intimate moment I saw Jowita Przystal and Pete Wicks share in a corridor… a year before their onstage kiss – and the truth about their ‘intense connection’: GRANT TUCKER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strictly<\/a> professional Jowita Przystal<\/a> sent crowds wild at the O2 Arena last week as she dropped swooning into the muscular, leather-clad arms of former dance partner and reality TV<\/a> star Pete Wicks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At a live show of Wicks\u2019s popular podcast, Staying Relevant, the pair surprised the audience with a dance routine so sexually charged they could barely keep their hands – or lips – off one another.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To the thumping beats of Way Down We Go by Kaleo, the Polish beauty, 31, and Towie<\/a> star, 36, shared three passionate kisses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friday night\u2019s display appears to offer the happy ending Strictly fans have long hoped for after witnessing their electric chemistry on last year\u2019s series. It was that instinctive rapport which helped take the pair all the way to the semi-finals, after all.<\/p>\n

For me, however, it wasn\u2019t the first time I\u2019d seen them getting intimate. It wasn\u2019t even the first time I\u2019d witnessed their closeness at this very venue \u2013 the 20,000-seat arena in London\u2019s Greenwich \u2013 though back then they were rather more shy about it. Indeed in September last year, when I first saw their mutual affection, things were very different.<\/p>\n

That occasion was the National Television Awards<\/a> \u2013 before their appearance together on Strictly had even been announced.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, I have often covered the drink-fuelled bash as a showbusiness journalist and it is not unusual for television stars to display warm feelings towards one another.<\/p>\n

But witnessing Pete and Jowita, it was obvious to me then that their connection had a different level of intensity.<\/p>\n

\"Pete <\/p>\n

Pete Wicks and Jowita Przystal kiss passionately at London’s O2 Arena last Friday night<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The pair proved to be a sizzling partnership during last year’s Strictly Come Dancing series<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The professional dancer and former The Only Way Is Essex star reached the semi-finals<\/p>\n

He couldn\u2019t help but admire Jowita – who was wearing a gorgeous light-blue halter neck dress, which showed off her toned midriff. He told her she looked \u2018stunning\u2019 as he chatted to her in a quiet corridor, just off the VIP room behind the stage.<\/p>\n

Leaning in close, deep in conversation, Wicks placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. They had clearly formed a very close bond in the short time they had been rehearsing for the BBC dance show and I was excited to see where their relationship would go.<\/p>\n

As always with Pete\u2019s love life, however, things were not straightforward.<\/p>\n

Not long after that night, he began publicly dating Love Island star Maura Higgins.<\/a> A full-blown relationship ensued – and then ended in acrimony in February after a series of fiery rows.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m now told that Jowita has been a \u2018constant presence\u2019 in Pete\u2019s life ever since last year\u2019s Strictly, and helped him through some tough times after his split.<\/a><\/p>\n

And despite Pete\u2019s representatives rather ludicrously dismissing last Friday\u2019s on-stage kisses as meaningless, and insisting that he and Jowita are just friends, those close to the pair say the relationship has definitely become romantic.<\/a><\/p>\n

A friend of Jowita told me: \u2018She adores Peter and thinks he is an old-school charmer. Last month he took her on a date to see Oasis at Wembley, and that O2 performance was his idea.<\/p>\n

\u2018They are both free spirits and love having a lot of fun together. She knows exactly how to put a smile on his face and he does the same for her. Their connection is the real deal.\u2019<\/p>\n

When I pressed my source on the \u2018just friends\u2019 rebuttal, they responded: \u2018You don\u2019t go snogging your friends. And certainly not three times.\u2019<\/p>\n

And yet, as ever, there is a complicating factor. Just days before the sizzling O2 performance, Pete was spotted kissing a mystery blonde at The Maine restaurant in Mayfair, central London.<\/a> Once again Pete – who has previously dated reality TV stars Megan McKenna, Chloe Sims, and Ella Rae Wise – appears to be earning the label \u2018commitment-phobe\u2019. He doesn\u2019t even dispute it himself, writing in his memoir that people have called him \u2018the arrogant Lothario. The grumpy git. The bad boy\u2019.<\/p>\n

He confessed: \u2018To be honest, most of that is true.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve definitely got a fear of commitment. It\u2019s the standard clich\u00e9 of abandonment, fear of people leaving.<\/p>\n

\u2018That probably has been driven by different things that have happened in my life. It probably doesn\u2019t mean I will be on my own forever.\u2019<\/p>\n

Friends of Pete certainly hope that he will settle down eventually, insisting \u2018he is a lovely guy, who deserves the best\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Pete doesn\u2019t rush into relationships, despite his reputation. He certainly doesn\u2019t like to hurt those he loves with his indecision,\u2019 said one.<\/p>\n

Jowita is certainly enjoying her time with him. Taking to her Instagram account after Friday\u2019s sexy performance, she told fans: \u2018I\u2019m still buzzing after last night… and to be honest I feel absolutely speechless.<\/p>\n

\u2018Massive thank you to everyone who came to watch, thank you for all your beautiful messages, your support means everything. And last but not least Pete Wicks for making my dream come true.<\/p>\n

\u2018Had the best night ever. More to come. J.\u2019<\/p>\n

Friends of the pair have no doubt that there is\u00a0more to come. One said Pete and Jowita were a \u2018great fit\u2019 and are \u2018always laughing\u2019 when they are together.<\/p>\n

\u2018They\u2019re gorgeous, they\u2019re having fun and long may it continue.\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jowita \u2013 who has previously dated Strictly professional Giovanni Pernice – is appearing on the current series of the dance show, paired with 63-year-old Ross King, the showbusiness correspondent for ITV\u2019s Good Morning Britain and Lorraine. Will their routines contain quite the same level of spice she achieved with self-confessed ladies\u2019 man Pete? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strictly professional Jowita Przystal sent crowds wild at the O2 Arena last week as she dropped swooning into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[539,93,61,60,29618,99,12462,1489],"class_list":{"0":"post-38568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jowita-przystal","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-pete-wicks","15":"tag-tvshowbiz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}