Chloe Sims has revealed she is “seeing what’s going on” with “handsome” Miles Richie after he bumped into her at an Emmys party.
The House of Sims star, 42, was photographed holding hands with Lionel Richie’s son, 13 years her junior, in February after the pair were reportedly seen “passionately kissing” at a nightclub in The Angels.
Despite admitting that Miles is “funny” and “really charming”, Chloe has confirmed that she is still “single”, although her romance with the singer has opened her eyes to settling down with a younger man.
In an exclusive interview, Chloe told MailOnline that Miles approached her at an Emmys party, where Megan Fox, 37, was a guest, as well as Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, 76, who, as the TOWIE star joked, he’s “more in his age range.”
After moving from Essex to Los Angeles, Chloe says she is enjoying dabbling in a bigger dating pool, admitting to TOWIE that she has only had romances with men she would never be with “in the real world”.
Chloe Sims has revealed she is “seeing what’s going on” with “handsome” Miles Richie after he bumped into her at an Emmys party.
The House of Sims star was photographed holding hands with Lionel Richie’s son, 13 years her junior, in February after the pair were reportedly seen “kissing” at a Los Angeles nightclub.
Former TOWIE star Chloe says she knew Miles was Lionel’s son when they met (Lionel pictured with daughter Sofia, girlfriend Lisa Parigi and Miles in 2020)
She said: “Miles is really charming, very nice and very funny, he is very handsome but my status is single and I am not into anything serious.” We are seeing what happens.
“I’m in the UK right now for six weeks and if I was asked out here I wouldn’t say no, so I’m definitely single.” I don’t want to get attached to just one person right now. I want the next person I talk to really seriously; I really want to settle down. I want to be with my person.
‘I met Miles at an Emmy party, it was a formal dinner, I was Vas Morgan’s date and they are friends.
“To be honest with you, I was minding my own business because Aerosmith was there, Steven Tyler, and I thought, ‘he’s more in my age range!’ Megan Fox was there too.
“I was minding my own business, but he came and sat with me. I knew he was Lionel Richie’s son, yeah… embarrassingly, I had a couple of drinks and accidentally introduced him to someone else as ‘Richie,’ I told him. : ‘This is Richie’ and he said, ‘My name is Miles’…’ And I died inside.’
Miles is the son of superstar Lionel and his ex-wife, Diane Alexander, and the former couple also shares daughter Sofia Richie, 25.
The artist’s older sister, Nicole, 42, is Lionel’s adopted daughter. He and her ex-wife, Brenda Harvey Richie, took her in when she was just three years old after her biological parents decided her partner would take better care of her.
Chloe, who has a 19-year-old daughter, Madison, has dated a handful of her former co-stars, including Elliott Wright, 44, Dan Edgar, 33, and Pete Wicks, 36.
Despite admitting that Miles is “funny” and “charming”, Chloe has confirmed that she is still “single”, although her romance with the singer has opened her eyes to settling down with a younger man.
Chloe told MailOnline that she and Miles met at an Emmys party she attended as a plus 1 for her close friend Vas J Morgan.
Chloe, who has a 19-year-old daughter, Madison, has dated several of her former co-stars, including Elliott Wright, Dan Edgar and Pete Wicks (pictured in 2017).
She says seeing a man 13 years younger than her is nothing out of the ordinary in Los Angeles.
The mother of one is tired of being defined by her age and sees nothing wrong with romancing Miles, or any man, who is younger than her years.
She said: ‘What I will say is… in Los Angeles, I’ve seen a lot of relationships where women date younger men, so I’m not going to rule out the younger guys.
‘Many women are absolutely stunning and have younger men. In the UK, I would have reservations about dating someone younger, but they are much more open-minded there.
“I felt like my age had restricted me a lot, pretty much the entire time I was on TOWIE, so it’s time to think more openly.”
To maintain her fresh start, Chloe says she only tells her potential suitors her name and hopes they will refrain from searching for her online.
And being miles away from Essex, she’s grateful to have new men to date – while slamming her old TOWIE love interests.
He added: “Dating in LA is definitely more fun, it’s really entertaining because people don’t really know anything about me and I never give out my last name for fear of being Googled.”
Chloe moved to the US from Brentwood in Essex, leaving TOWIE after 12 years to star in her own reality show, House of Sims (pictured in April).
‘If I meet someone organically, I just give them my name. The people I dated on TOWIE would never have dated in the real world.
Chloe moved to the US from Brentwood in Essex and left TOWIE after 12 years to star in her own reality show, House of Sims.
She has since fallen out with her sisters Frankie and Demi Sims, who also appear in the series, and the once close-knit family has not spoken for the past six months.
Speaking of her pain at the fallout, she said: “Hearing some of the things they said to me was really heartbreaking and I really wasn’t expecting it… To be honest, I was surprised.”
“Obviously they are my little sisters, but the things that have happened and the things that have been said, I am not going to repeat them, but they have hurt me deeply.”