We at heat love a weird celeb hook up. Liam Payne and Mrs Cheryl, Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift, Stephen Bear and Chloe Khan (#gonetoosoon).
So we are 100% behind the cross reality TV romance of Joey Essex and Stephanie Pratt.
Their eyes met across a crowded singles mixer in *Celebs Go Dating *and, following some not-so-great dates (burping woman / circumcision man – we're looking at you) they finally got to date each other.
Officially at least. Charlotte Crosby maintains they were doing the dirty sex-sex wellllll before their extremely passionate pool smooch.
But will they stay the distance?
Speaking to heat, Joey said: "I just think there might be a connection with Steph."
N'awwww.
One person however has poured cold water all over their blossoming romance: Lady* Nadia Essex
"Joey needs someone a little bit younger, a little bit more carefree, a lot bit more fun and just more chilled out," she said, which seems pretty harsh on Made In Chelsea's Steph.
And she wasn't done there.
"Stephanie needs someone a bit older, more mature, someone who's ready to settle down. Steph's 30, she's getting to the stage where marriage and kids are something that she'll have to really think about," she told the Daily Star Online, which again seems pretty harsh on Steph.
Maybe Nadia's a bit upset that Steph isn't married already to so-full-on-he-gave-us-palpitations Piet Southey.
Whoever Steph ends up with, be it Joey or someone else, at least we can agree they'll be a better catch than Spencer Matthews. Or odd robot man Stevie Johnson.
*So what that it's apparently a bought title? It still totally counts.
*You can read more about Steph and Joey's blossoming romance in this week's issue of heat magazine, out now. *
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