The One Show presenter Roman Kemp said he has since apologised to former Strictly Come Dancing star Pete Wicks, after the latter confronted him

Pete Wicks
Pete Wicks was ‘left rattled’ by the joke

Former Strictly Come Dancing star Pete Wicks has confronted Roman Kemp over a joke the latter made about him being “skint”.

Speaking to his dad Martin Kemp, Roman, 32, claimed that Pete, 37, was left “rattled” by the gag made at a charity event, and revealed he has since apologised to the reality star.

Recalling their conversation, Roman said the Strictly star asked him if he remembered saying it, to which he said he didn’t.

“And he [Pete] goes, ‘It’s rattled me for about three months and I still haven’t got over it’,” the presenter shared on the FFS! My Dad is Martin Kemp podcast.

“I was like, ‘Mate, I’m so sorry’ and he was like, ‘Na, na, it was great, but it’s absolutely rattled me’.”

The One Show host went on to say that Pete has since “made a point” about it by recently buying Martin a coffee.

“He made a point of buying you a coffee, so that you could go back and tell me that he’s not skint,” Roman recalled, to which Martin, 63, replied, laughing: “That is so funny.”

Roman Kemp

Roman Kemp said he has since apologised to Pete
Roman added: “It must’ve come out, like some gag or whatever, like, ‘Ah, don’t ask Pete for money, he’s skint’, he was rattled by it.”

Thinking back to his recent encounter with Pete, Martin humorously suggested that the Strictly star may not have bought the coffee after all.

“He didn’t it came out of the machine,” he claimed.

Martin and Pete formed a friendship through their time together on the show Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls, back in 2018.

At the time, the pair put their survival skills to the test amongst the likes of Love Island’s Montana Brown, Olympic rower James Cracknell, actress Roxanne Pallett and entrepreneur Jo Wood.

The Spandau Ballet star described appearing on the programme as an “experience you can’t pay for”.

Discussing some memories from the show, he recalled Pete crying over the death of a pig and later arranging a funeral for it.

Martin further said that his co-star was also “bitten by a shark” on his finger, adding: “It all became a little bit messy. It was a real experience, a joint bonding experience that me and Pete have.”