The couple were recently pictured enjoying a drunken snog after a night out in London, and it was revealed that the old friends had been secretly dating.
Chloe’s brother and Mario’s best friend Charlie expressed his worry about his lothario pal shacking up with his sister.
Mario tried to reassure Charlie, expressing how difficult it had been keeping their romance a secret.‘I'm seeing a girl I really, really like,’ he said.
‘It was really hard to talk to anyone about it.’Charlie then warned Mario: ‘From Chloe's point of view, she does like you...’
Mario explained his reasons for keeping his romance with Chloe private.‘One of the reasons we didn't want it to come out is everyone in Essex gets involved,’ he said.
‘I can't emotionally deal with it all again.’
Charlie let Mario know that he wouldn’t allow his best friend to treat Chloe badly (or ‘mug her off’ as the Essex crowd call it!).
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‘I wouldn't tolerate her being mucked around. As a man, you need to sit down and tell her where it's going,’ the protective brother warned him.
Chloe and Mario then had a chat about their blossoming romance, deciding to call time on it before they fell in too deep.
‘When you start dating someone... there's so much to lose,’ said Mario. ‘If it goes wrong, I'd lose you as a friend, I'd lose Charlie as my brother.’
'You know me, I'm a pr**k sometimes,’ he added, to which Chloe humorously agreed.
Chloe the revealed: ‘When this started, I did say ‘you're not the man I'm going to marry.’ But the time we spent together, you have made me really happy.’
‘I have got feelings for you that I'm hoping are going to die. Maybe in a month when I meet the man of my dreams,’ she added.