REALITY star Chloe Sims has given a rare insight into her relationship with Miles Richie, the son of superstar singer Lionel Richie.
The pair have been romantically linked after being spotted kissing and holding hands, following them hitting it off at the Emmy Awards earlier this year.
Having found fame on TOWIE, Chloe has relocated from Essex to the US to be the star of her own Netflix TV show, House of Sims.
Working to raise her profile in the States, Chloe admits that her first encounter with Miles who is 13 years her junior, left her almost dying with embarrassment.
In an interview with Mail Online the 42 year old said: “I met Miles at an Emmy’s party, it was a sit-down dinner, I was Vas Morgan's plus 1 and they are friends.
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“I was minding my own business, but he came and sat with me. I did know he was Lionel Richie's son yes… embarrassingly, I had a couple of drinks, and I accidentally introduced him to someone else as 'Richie', I said, 'This is Richie' and he said, 'My name is Miles...' And I died inside.”
Miles is the son of singer Lionel and his former wife, Diane Alexander, they also share a daughter, Sophia Richie, 25.
But although they’ve been spotted kissing in an LA nightclub and holding hands on a few occasions, Chloe insists that she is still single.
She says: 'Miles is really lovely, really nice and really fun, he's very handsome but my status is single and I'm not in anything serious. We are seeing what happens.
'I am in the UK right now for six weeks and if I did get asked out on a date here, I wouldn't say no, so I am definitely single. I don't want to get attached to one person right now. I want the next person I'm really serious with – I really do want to settle down. I want to be with my person.’
Indeed Chloe who has a nineteen-year-old daughter Madison, says that her experience with Miles has made her more open to dating much younger men, because in LA it is less of a taboo for men to date older women.
“I have seen a lot of relationships where women are dating younger men, so I am not going to cancel out younger guys.
'A lot of women are absolutely stunning, and they have younger men. In the UK, I would have my reservations about dating someone younger but over there, they are a lot more open-minded.
'I have felt like my age has restricted me a lot, pretty much the whole time I was on TOWIE, so it's time to think more openly.”
The former TOWIE star also admits that being in America has offered her the joy of anonymity, which has given her a fresh start in the dating game.
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She says: “'Dating in LA is definitely more fun, it's really entertaining because people genuinely don't know anything about me, and I never give my last name in fear they will Google me.”
After 12 years of starring on TOWIE, Chloe quit Brentwood for LA where she has created and currently stars in her own reality show, House of Sims.
But life hasn’t all been beachy, as Chloe has since fallen out with her sisters Frankie and Demi Sims who also star on the series.
Having once been extremely close, they now haven’t spoken in six months.
Right now, Chloe has explained that she’s struggling to move on from the fallout.
She said: “To hear some of the things they said to me was really heartbreaking and I genuinely wasn’t expecting it.
"I was shocked to be honest. They are obviously my little sisters, but things have gone down things have been said. I'm not going to repeat them, but things have hurt me deeply.”
