Chloe Sims was pictured on a date with Lionel Richie's son.
The 42-year-old, who shot to fame on ITVBe reality show The Only Is Essex, was seen leaving Wally's restaurant in Beverly Hills with Miles Richie, 29. Dressed in a chic black outfit which showed off her figure, Chloe was seen leaning into the music icon's middle child for a smooch.
Chloe, who has a 19-year-old daughter, moved to California in January 2023, and it was in one of the city's nightclubs that she first met Miles last month. A source said that the unlikely couple's chemistry was there from the start, and they had been "sexting and texting" ever since.
They said: "Chloe and Miles met at an LA nightclub right before New York Fashion Week. They hit it off and were spotted kissing passionately that same night. They have been texting, sexting and chatting since then and are planning to meet up asap in LA where she lives.
"They have great chemistry and he told her she is super hot, and that he loves older women," a source told the MailOnline. In loved-up snaps of the new couple, as reported by MailOnline, Chloe and Miles can be seen enjoying each other's company on a romantic date.
Davina McCall still talks to three Big Brother stars and felt bad for Jade GoodyChloe moved stateside along with her sisters Frankie, 27, and Demi, 25, brother Charlie, 31, and their cousin Joey Essex to film the first season of their OnlyFans reality show, House Of Sims. However, the second series - which might be moving from OnlyFans TV to Netflix - drove Chloe and her sisters apart. Bitter arguments erupted between the family members and it wasn’t long before Frankie and Demi fled back to the UK while Chloe and Charlie remained in the United States.
Now the first trailers have begun to emerge for the second season of the House of Sims - and Chloe has admitted that seeing the drama she endured in front of cameras start to play out on screens is leaving her conflicted. Taking to Instagram earlier this month, Chloe issued a statement where she expressed her regret over the fact she’d grown apart from her sisters.
She wrote in a Stories post: "I should be celebrating this as one of my proudest moments; Filming & co-producing season 2 of my show House Of Sims whilst living my dream in Los Angeles. Unfortunately life doesn't always play out the way that we plan and we have to take the ups with the downs."
She continued: "Family has always been the most important thing to me. I have included my family on every step of my professional and personal journey so to share this unfortunate event with the world.
"A private moment of turmoil within my family really breaks my heart. Since I started reality TV I have promised to be my authentic self and film MY reality. The highs and the lows. Sadly this moment isn't one I'm proud of.."
In the trailer, the sisters can be seen bitterly arguing. Demi and Frankie are shown throwing drinks in Chloe’s face during an explosive argument. Charlie jumps between the sisters to try to calm the scenario. Chloe is shown yelling: "You're rude to me, you're both f**king users.” And Frankie yelled: "You're a bully," with Demi adding: "You're embarrassing."
Miles will be a dab hand at dating someone with a turbulent, famous family. In 2014, he was briefly linked with Kylie Jenner. Years later, Kylie's sister Kourtney Kardashian's baby daddy Scott Disick dated Miles' sister Sofia Richie for two years.