BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks felt like 'national hate figure' over public abuse before loss left him 'alone'

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Pete Wicks has recalled feeling like a 'national hate figure' as he was subject to public abuse in a candid chat about his life in which he also spoke about the heartbreaking loss that left him feeling 'alone'.

The reality star and podcast host has opened up in a raw and emotional interview with Married at First Sight expert Paul C Brunson.

In the revealing conversation on the We Need To Talk podcast, Pete spoke about his time on The Only Way is Essex (TOWIE). It is then that he shockingly revealed that he received death threats in the aftermath of his high-profile break-up with his TOWIE star ex-girlfriend Megan McKenna. ""It's really hard when I look back on it to think about how bad it was because at the time you're so caught up in it," Pete, 37, told Paul during their conversation on the podcast. "I was getting death threats daily.

I had people spit at me in the streets." On the impact the abuse had on him, he added: "I felt like I was a national hate figure, like public enemy number one." Pete then admitted that it was as recently as his appearance on Strictly Come Dancing last year that he was subjected to even more death threats, revealing: "I've just done Strictly, I was getting death threats through (my time on) Strictly for still being in the competition because there were better dancers leaving.