They’ve been the talk of Essex after their drunken kiss was revealed.
And Pete Wicks couldn’t help but flirt with co-star Ella Rae Wise, 20, as he admitted there’s some ‘sexual tension’ between them during Sunday’s episode of TOWIE.
The reality star, 32, also apologised for making the blonde beauty feel ‘mugged off’ when she claimed he’d been ‘downplaying’ their embrace to others.
Heating up? Pete Wicks couldn’t help but flirt with co-star Ella Rae Wise, 20, (pictured) as he admitted there’s some ‘sexual tension’ between them during Sunday’s episode of TOWIE
Pete was enjoying a catch up with pal Diags, 29, when a very stylish Ella appeared at the same cafe to pick up a coffee.
After a short awkward pause, Ella turned to Pete and spoke her mind as she said: ‘I’ve a bone to pick with you. I feel like you’re playing the kiss down.
‘Are you embarrassed? I feel like you’re being muggy and didn’t like the fact I told people we had a kiss.’
Pete replied: ‘I was confused seeing as it happened three months ago… the problem now is that everyone’s blown it into something bigger than it is.’
Making amends: The reality star, 32, (pictured) also apologised for making the blonde feel ‘mugged off’ when she claimed he’d been ‘downplaying’ their kiss
Sitting inbetween the two potential flames, Diags then piped up saying he could ‘feel some weird tension’ in the room.
Looking at Ella, Pete said: ‘Yeah, it is sexual tension and I flirt when I see you, especially when you look like that, what do you expect me to do?’
Things then took a slight turn towards the serious as Diags delivered a telling one-liner to his pal, saying: ‘It feels like you’re saving yourself at the expense of other peoples feelings.’
Ella agreed wholeheartedly, with Pete then apologising to her if she felt ‘mugged off’ because of whatever he’d said to others.
Fancy seeing you here: Pete was enjoying a catch up with pal Diags, 29, when a very stylish Ella appeared at the same cafe to pick up a coffee
Tense: Ella (left) asked Pete (right) if he was ’embarrassed’ about their kiss, with him saying that he believes people have ‘blown it into something bigger than it is’
Unimpressed: Ella said she felt ‘mugged off’ by Pete’s behaviour regarding the kiss
Concluding the chat on a lighter note, the duo decided that they’d ‘f**k everyone else and do what they want’, with Ella joking you’ve got to ‘try before you buy’.
As she left the cafe, Pete turned to Diags and told him: ‘You just threw me under the bus you silly p***k.’
Elsewhere in the show, Ella was seen crying over her fallout with Kelsey Stratford while on a spa day. And the two beauties came to verbal blows on a night out.
Kelsey claimed that Ella is always competing with her, even down to having to get the same ‘hairbrush’, with Ella saying that example sounded ‘pathetic’.
By the end of their short row no progress towards mending their friendship was made, with Kelsey instead having the last word and walking away.
Emotional: Elsewhere in the show, Ella was seen crying over her fallout with Kelsey Stratford while on a spa day
Not bothered: Kelsey said Ella was ‘always competing with her’ while chatting to two other pals over pancakes about her friendship woes
She told her former friend: ‘You’re in competition with everyone, everyone says it… You treat me like s**t and I’m done with it’.
Last week Pete made it clear to his latest love interest that he still wants to keep things extremely casual.
The Lothario told Ella over cocktails: ‘Listen, we kissed it’s not the biggest news in the world is it? I do think you’re beaut and I do think we get on really well… You know I can’t be in a relationship.’
But Ella isn’t put off by Pete’s aversion to commitment as she says: ‘I ain’t asking for a relationship.’
Pete continues: ‘We’ve been flirty for ages,’ to which she replies: ‘Really flirty like you’re massively flirty yeah.’
Not making up: The two beauties came to verbal blows on a night out, with Kelsey claiming that Ella is always competing with her, even down to having to get the same ‘hairbrush’
Over it: Kelsey ended their tense words by saying ‘you treat me like s**t and I’m done with it’
‘What and you’re not?’ he hits back jokingly in defence as he seductively licks his lips at the blonde bombshell.
Ella tells him: ‘It’s hard because I told you I fancied you loads of times…so I take it the wrong way [that he hasn’t made a move].’
Pete replies: ‘Listen, I do think you’re beaut and I do think we get on really well and I said to you before you’re probably the sort of person I would go for…’, before delivering the blow he can’t be in a relationship.
And when Ella is adamant she doesn’t want a boyfriend, Pete says: ‘What are you after then just a bit of fun?’
The reality star tells him: ‘Just a bit. So, if we both don’t want a relationship does that still mean we can carry on flirting with each other?’
Easy going: Last week, Pete and Ella chatted some more about their flirting and not wanting a serious relationship
‘Well, I mean, we can carry on flirting yeah,’ says Pete while Ella seductively sips her drink and gives the Lothario a cheeky sideways glance, which leaves him speechless.
In the same episode, Pete’s ex Chloe Sims claims she’s unfazed by her former flame’s budding romance.
In a teaser clip aired on Sunday’s show, she ranted: ‘Whoever he’s kissing, I don’t care. He can kiss my a*s for all I care.’
It comes after viewers saw Ella confess to Clelia she had ‘already kissed Pete a couple of months ago’ while at Harry Lee’s 26th birthday on last Sunday’s show.
Saying it happened after Pete’s split from Chloe, Ella told her: ‘I’m just trying to say I’ve kissed him and I fancy him. That’s the situation. Chloe’s not my friend. Me and Pete have always had this connection. I know the feeling is mutual.’
Chloe and Pete haven’t spoken for months after their attempts to restore some sort of friendship broke down.
The reality star was said to be heartbroken after he rebuffed her hopes of a relationship when she told him she was in love with him.
Pete told The Sun recently: ‘Chloe and I haven’t seen each other or spoken at all. She has unfollowed me on social media as have half the cast.
‘Chloe unfollowed me, her sisters Demi and Frankie have unfollowed me and apparently Tommy and Georgia have too.’
Pete added: ‘I don’t have a clue why. I didn’t even know they had until someone told me. It could just be they are sick of seeing me being a d**k on Instagram with Sam Thompson all the time or it could be something a lot deeper.’
Yet despite his claims, it only appears to be Chloe, Georgia and Tommy that have unfollowed him.
TOWIE continues on Sunday on ITVBe at 9pm.
Estranged: Chloe and Pete haven’t spoken for months after their attempts to restore some sort of friendship broke down (pictured together in 2019)