TOWIE's Chloe Sims left in tears as she parts ways with Pete Wicks 'for good'

Chloe Sims and Pete Wicks clashed once again during tonight's The Only Way Is Essex Christmas special.

Earlier this year the pair confirmed they'd "blurred the lines of their friendship" and were more than friends.

Chloe has admitted her feelings for Pete, and the couple's romance has been on and off for several years.

During a scene airing tonight, Pete asked Chloe: "What are we going to do this Christmas?"

She replied: "Pete, all I'm going to say is this. Don't do anything you don't want to do."

He said: "I absolutely won't, so I'll see you on boxing day", to which Chloe said fine."

Chloe told Pete: "I genuinely feel like you want out of whatever this is."

He said: "If I wanted out, I'd be out trust me."

"You want out and you don't know how to do it, and I feel like I keep offering it to you", said Chloe.

She added: "I'm not asking you for a lot Pete."

Later, the starlet began to cry as she said: "I just don't want you to dismiss it so much that I look like a f***ing idiot."

Chloe continued: "I understand you don't want a relationship, but regardless of that, there is still something", to which Pete agreed there was."

Pete said: "I can't be in a relationship and I can't give you what you want.

"And I can't give you what you deserve and I know that."

Chloe said: "Yeah well I don't know if I can stay."

Pete said he's not going to be the reason Chloe's is "upset all the time".

He told his TOWIE co-star: "If you can't be around me, don't be."

After Chloe explained she didn't know what to do, Pete said: "It's your choice. You want to go? Go."

The emotional star exclaimed: "I don't want to walk away from you but I feel like I ain't got no choice."

"If we walk away from each that's really got to be it Pete", she said.

Pete replied: "Then fine, this is it. If that's what you want then you do that."

Chloe said with tears in her eyes: "So we're just going to leave it here yeah?"

She added: "Well I take your silence as a yes."

After confirming they should end things, Chloe walked away in tears.