Amber Davies and Pete Wicks kiss on romantic night out – proving they HAVE been dating
PETE Wicks and Amber Davies tried to insist that they’re ‘just friends’ after The Sun Online exclusively revealed they’d been going on secret ‘dates’ for a month.
But we can confirm the pair have been seeing each other – and are so close that they shared a passionate kiss, which Amber videoed and uploaded to Instagram Stories, before quickly deleting it minutes later.
In the video, Pete, 29, stares into Amber’s eyes before moving in for a snog with his eyes closed. A smiling Amber, 20, pulls him in close as they kiss.
The video was posted on 4 January, late at night, but eagle eyed Towie fans spotted it before Love Island star Amber managed to delete the video and replace it with a more innocent one, where she and Pete cuddle and mess around with Instagram filters.
It seems Amber has been making a few mistakes on social media recently – she posted a mirror selfie with what looked like a suspicious white powder, a rolled up bank note and a credit card in the frame on Instagram Stories on the night of the National Television Awards.
She quickly deleted it and issued a statement, saying she was “devastated”.
"I don’t know for sure what it was, but I do know what it looks like, and I am devastated. I have never and would never take drugs, or knowingly be around people who do. That is not who I am.”
We revealed yesterday how Amber and Pete had been seeing each other – going for dinner at Sheesh in Essex, and on a cosy cinema trip, but Pete quickly denied it on Twitter.
“Pete and Amber have been meeting up since December,” says an Essex insider.
The Sun Online’s NTAs insider says they looked close at the awards party too.
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“Amber was laughing and touching Pete’s chest in the smoking area. At one point he had his arm around her. It looked really flirty.”
They’ve even been spotted by fans, with one telling us they saw the pair at Wood Green’s Vue cinema on 30 December.
“They were ahead of me in the queue for food – they both got slushies and went into the cinema, just the two of them,” the onlooker told us.
“But then they got up and walked out before the film even started. It looked like a date to me.”
A source close to the Towie star says: “Pete doesn’t want to get into a relationship right now after he got his heart broken by Megan [McKenna], so even though Amber seems keen on taking things further, he doesn’t want to get her hopes up.
“They’ve got mutual friends, so he doesn’t want to be rude, but he doesn’t want to start dating her either.
"He's dating other women too - he's having a good time being single and seeing lots of girls.
“After her ‘drug photo’ scandal, he doesn’t really want to be closely connected to her, and people are advising him to distance himself.
“He doesn’t want to be associated with that kind of thing – it’s not a good look for him.
“He’s wary of getting into another very public relationship after how things ended with Megan.”
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