Strictly's Pete Wicks and Jowita Przystał send fans WILD after 'kissing' during passionate performance following weeks of romance rumours: 'They are the fittest couple ever!'

Strictly Come Dancing’s Pete Wicks and pro partner Jowita Przystał sent fans wild after almost kissing during their passionate performance on Saturday.

The TOWIE star, 36, and stunning dancer, 30, have found themsleves embroiled in romance rumours for weeks amid their intense rehearsals.

Now fans have branded them the ‘fittest couple ever’ after they took to the floor with a sensual foxtrot that saw Pete drawing Jowita in close and their lips just millimetres apart.

The dance also ended with them leaning in for a kiss before the lights cut out, and while it appeared choreographed some viewers were positive a true romance was brewing between the pair.

Judge Motsi Mabuse even spotted their connection saying: ‘I think both of you, you had such a beautiful, flirty, romantic atmosphere, and I believed it was authentic’.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Pete Wicks, 36, and pro partner Jowita Przystał, 30, sent fans wild after almost kissing during their passionate performance on Saturday

Now fans have branded them the ‘fittest couple ever’ after they took to the floor with a sensual foxtrot that saw Pete drawing Jowita in close and their lips just millimetres apart

Judge Motsi Mabuse even spotted their connection saying: ‘I think both of you, you had such a beautiful, flirty, romantic atmosphere, and I believed it was authentic’

Taking to X viewers gushed: ‘Jowita has hearts in her eyes’: ‘How long before Pete tries to kiss Jowita properly?’: ‘Yay pleased for Pete and Jowita’: ‘Jowita really wants to stick it on Pete, she fancies the pants off Pete But i don’t think Pete is into her unfortunately’: ‘Pete and Jowita almost kissing?!’.

The pairs routine saw them score 22 out of a possible 40 and ended up in joint tenth place on the leaderboard with Nick Knowles.

Elsewhere in the episode Tasha Ghouri left father Tarek in tears as she topped the leader board and made history after scoring the highest ever for a Viennese waltz in week two.

The Love Island star, 26, performed with pro partner Aljaž Škorjanec, 34, in what the judges branded the ‘dance of the night’.

Anton Du Beke gushed that he ‘couldn’t find anything bad’ in the performance, while Motsi Mabuse agreed: ‘That was the best dance of the night! I absolutely loved it!’.

Tasha’s father who was sat in the audience appeared visibly emotional as his daughter also struggled to choke back tears following the feedback.

When preparing to hear their scores host Claudia Winkleman said: ‘What made it more emotional was watching your dad, sobbing, watching you’.

‘I did say he was going to cry’ Tasha laughed, as the camera cut to Tarek who was wiping tears from his eyes.

The dance also ended with them leaning in for a kiss before the lights cut out, and while it appeared choreographed some viewers were positive a true romance was brewing

Taking to X viewers gushed: ‘Jowita has hearts in her eyes’: ‘How long before Pete tries to kiss Jowita properly?’

Strictly Come Dancing leaderboard: Week 2

1. Tasha Ghouri and Aljaž Škorjanec – 8 + 9 + 9 + 9 = 35 + 30 = 65

2. Sarah Hadland and Vito Coppola – 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 32 + 30 = 62

3. JB Gill and Amy Dowden MBE – 7 + 7 + 6 + 7 = 27 + 31 = 58

4. Wynne Evans and Katya Jones – 7 + 7 + 8 + 8 = 30 + 26 = 56

5. Montell Douglas and Johannes Radebe – 8 + 7 + 7 + 8 = 30 + 26 = 56

6. Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell – 6 + 7 + 8 + 8 = 29 + 23 = 52

6. Shayne Ward and Nancy Xu – 7 + 8 + 8+ 8 = 31 + 21 = 52

7. Jamie Borthwick and Michelle Tsiakkas – 6 + 7 + 7 + 7 = 27 + 23 = 50

8. Sam Quek MBE and Nikita Kuzmin – 4 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 22 + 23 = 45

9. Tom Dean MBE and Nadiya Bychkova – 3 + 6 + 5 + 6 = 20 + 23 = 43

10. Nick Knowles and Luba Mushtuk – 5 + 5 + 5 + 6 = 21 + 18 = 39

10. Pete Wicks and Jowita Przystał – 3 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 22 + 17 = 39

11. Punam Krishan and Gorka Márquez – 4 + 5 + 4 + 5 = 18 + 19 = 37

12. Paul Merson and Karen Hauer – 2 + 4 + 4 + 5 = 15 + 17 = 32

13. Toyah Willcox and Neil Jones – 3 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 18 + 12 = 30

‘And it’s not a gentle cry’ Claudia joked.

Following their gushing comments, Craig scored them eight out of ten, followed by Motsi, Anton and Shirley who all gave a whopping nine.

Meanwhile Pro Nadiya Bychkova, 36, kicked off the show as she and Olympian Tom Dean, 24, strutted their stuff in sequins to a disco inspired Cha Cha, only for her skin-tight sequinned jumpsuit to rip between her legs.

Following the performance they faced the judges where host Tess Daly, 55, pointed out the awkward gaffe saying: ‘Her costume! we had a costume malfunction it ripped on her leg!’.

Elsewhere Tasha Ghouri left father Tarek in tears as she topped the leader board and made history after scoring the highest ever for a Viennese waltz in week two

The Love Island star performed with pro partner Aljaž Škorjanec, 34, in what the judges branded the ‘dance of the night’ (Dad Tarek pictured)

As Nadiya giggled, judge Shirley, 64, couldn’t help but heap praise on Tom and gushed how ‘coped and carried on carried on’ during the mishap.

Elsewhere Neil Jones, 42, took a savage dig at partner Toyah Wilcox, 66, after the pair found themsleves at the bottom of last week’s leaderboard with just 12 points.

After JB Fletcher’s perfomance saw him score a whopping 27 out of 40, partner Amy Dowden revealed she’d kept him from making mistakes, by charging him a pound every time.

Hitting back Neil quipped: ‘If we did the same with [last week’s] tango, I’d be a millionaire by now!’.