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Nikki and Pete 'love rift' riddle

September 13, 2006

MYSTERY surrounded Big Brother lovebirds Pete Bennett and Nikki Grahame last night — after friends claimed they had split.

Show winner Pete’s pals even insisted they had never been an item.

Ex-housemate Richard Newman said: “I don’t think they were ever going out. He might have fancied her but it was a friendship blown out of proportion for the media.”

But the claims were dismissed by the pair’s publicist who said the two were still together.

Nikki told yesterday told how she and Tourette’s sufferer Pete, both 24, have been coping with their busy schedules by having phone sex when they are apart.

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