Pete Wicks is the latest celebrity to join the Strictly Come Dancing line-up amid the the scandal his best pal Zara McDermott is embroiled in. TOWIE legend Pete, 35 and Love Island star Zara, 26, have a tight knit friendship thanks to Pete's bromance with Zara's boyfriend Sam Thompson . The pair are so close they had to laugh off affair rumours while Sam was taking part in the Im A Celebrity jungle last year.
"Me and Zara find it quite funny," he told New magazine when asked about the affair rumours. "That's the problem with social media everyone's got an opinion. Sam is my brother, and Zara is a very good friend of mine.
We just laugh about it." Pete, who has been best mates with Made in Chelsea's Sam since they met on Celebs Go Dating in 2018, then admitted that Zara is not his type and that he can't imagine a relationship between them ever working out. "I absolutely adore Zara, but she's not my cup of tea and I don't think she'd last five minutes.
" Zara once joked she doesn't ever want Pete to get a girlfriend as it would ruin their "throuple without the intimacy" set-up. Zara and Sam are really close friends with Pete, with the former TOWIE star always showing up in the couple's hilarious social media skits about their relationship. She previously revealed on a podcast: "We are a throuple without the intimacy.
That's what I think we are. Pete, honestly, like, he's got a very hard outer shell is what we say. He's got a very hard exterior, but he has the gooiest centre.
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