Pete 'postpones wedding' - May 15 2007
Big Brother winner Pete Bennett has reportedly revealed that he and fiancee Cherry are postponing their wedding.

The pair - who were friends for years before they started dating last year when Pete finished with BB housemate Nikki - insist that their relationship is going from strength to strength.

Cherry told Reveal magazine: "We're getting married next summer. This is our first proper summer together and we want to enjoy it. We're been a bit lazy organising a venue and we wanted to go to Glastonbury but getting married takes a lot of organising, so we're postponing until next summer."

The alternative couple - who have previously said they want to wed up a tree with Cherry's dog as the pageboy - said they want to spend time making sure it's the perfect celebration.

"We want to be able to look forward the wedding, instead of rushing it," she added. "Pete wanted everything to be mental. But I've taken over and toned it down a bit. I don't want my parents to be too shocked."

Pete and Cherry ’are engaged’ - Nov 21 2006
It seems that Big Brother winner Pete Bennett has got over his relationship with former flame Nikki remarkably quickly - he has now revealed that he is engaged to his new girlfriend Cherry.

Speaking to Heat magazine, the Brighton joker said: "I’d been thinking about proposing to Cherry for a while, but I was a bit nervous.

"My idea came when I was eating some of those Love Hearts sweets with slushy messages on. One said ’Marry Me’ so I saved it in the packet upside down."

Unfortunately for the comedy wannabe, he had to wait a few days to summon up the courage to give it to her.

However, when he eventually did offer her the tasty treat - she accepted and now they are planning their impending nuptials.

So will they be getting wed up a tree, as he’s previously suggested?

"Cherry and I did meet up a tree though, so that might be nice."

And what about poor Nikki?

"I’m not being unfeeling, but Nikki is my past and this is my future," he added. "I can’t put my life on hold because of what happened with her."

Nikki ’destroyed’ after Pete split - Sept 26, 2020
Big Brother’s Nikki says she has been "destroyed" by co-star Pete Bennett’s decision to dump her.

The pair got together before Tourette’s sufferer Pete, 24, won the Channel 4 reality show and its £100,000 top prize.

But he eventually dumped the screeching blonde, saying she was too "high maintenance" and kept insulting his friends.

Nikki, 24, tells New! magazine she was upset that he finished their relationship over the phone.

"I can’t believe he’s done this to me", she said. "What upset me most is that he couldn’t tell me how he felt when we were together or what I was doing wrong.

"He didn’t even call me to tell me that it was over. I had to call him.

"I texted him the night before we split to ask him how he was and tell him I was missing him, and he ignored me.

"Then I called him and he ignored me. In the end, I had to call him from my mum’s house so he wouldn’t recognise the number."