It is the love triangle that has gripped Strictly Come Dancing this year.
As reality star Pete Wicks showers affection on both his professional partner Jowita Przystal and his rumoured new girlfriend Maura Higgins.
But it appears Mr Wicks’s reported ‘inability to commit’ to either woman has led Ms Higgins to definitively state ‘I’m single’ when asked whether she was dating him.
The rebuff comes just days after Mr Wicks, 36, and the Love Island star, 33, enjoyed a date night last week before she jetted off to Australia ahead of her entry into the I’m A Celebrity jungle on Thursday.
She added: ‘I’m not [in a relationship with Mr Wicks]. I’ve been on dates with many people. I mean, I date, but I’m very much single. Everyone goes on dates.’
Last Monday the pair were seen attending a Ludovico Einaudi performance at the London Palladium and a month before were spotted kissing outside a restaurant in East London.
Maura Higgins has insisted that she’s single in an exclusive chat with MailOnline ahead of her I’m A Celebrity debut on Thursday night.
The rebuff comes just days after Mr Wicks, 36, and the Love Island star, 33, enjoyed a date night last week before she jetted off to Australia ahead of her entry into the I’m A Celebrity jungle on Thursday
This despite it being reported that the EsSєx lothario had been ‘growing close’ to his Polish dance partner, 30, and introduced her to his mum.
The Irish beauty had previously said of Mr Wicks: ‘I adore him, he’s an amazing person. Do you know what’s so weird? We met very soon after me coming off Love Island and we just instantly clicked.’
Ms Higgins also revealed to the Mail that she had not spoken to Mr Wicks about her upcoming three-week stint on the ITV show and addressing rumours of him flying out to Australia, she said: ‘I know nothing, he’s not said that to me anyway.’
It was revealed by the Mail that Mr Wicks was planning to make a trip Down Under if he was booted off Strictly early to support his best friend, Sam Thompson, who is presenting the ITV spin-off show, and Ms Higgins.
The Irish television personality will enter the I’m A Celebrity jungle on Thursday night as a late arrival alongside the Communards musician turned priest Reverend Richard Coles, joining her friend and former X-Factor judge, Tulisa Contostavlos, 36, and Coleen Rooney, 39.
Asked who was flying out to Australia to meet her when she leaves the show, Ms Higgins said: ‘Some of my friends said they would but I don’t know, it’d be a nice surprise whoever’s there.’
She added: ‘I’m not [in a relationship with Mr Wicks]. I’ve been on dates with many people. I mean, I date, but I’m very much single. Everyone goes on dates.’
The Irish beauty had previously said of Mr Wicks: ‘I adore him, he’s an amazing person. Do you know what’s so weird? We met very soon after me coming off Love Island and we just instantly clicked’
This despite it being reported that the EsSєx lothario had been ‘growing close’ to his Polish dance partner Jowita Przystal, 30, and introduced her to his mum
The Love Island alum, 33, will make a later arrival in camp alongside Rev Richard Coles , 62
Aligning herself with her future campmate, Ms Higgins insisted she was ‘Team Coleen’ when it came to the sensational Wagatha Christie trial, in which Rebekah Vardy accused Wayne Rooney’s wife of defamation in 2022.
Ms Higgins said: ‘I’m excited to meet her [Coleen]. I would do the exact same as what she did. Put up something on my Instagram story and just have certain people view it to catch that person out. That is the way my brain would work.’
