Chloe Sims has broken her silence on her rumoured romance with Lionel Richie’s son Miles.
The Only Way Is Essex alum, 42, was first linked to the 29-year-old back in February, after they were spotted “passionately kissing” at a nightclub in LA.
At the time, insiders claimed they had “great chemistry”, and said their age gap was a “huge plus” for Miles.
Speaking to MailOnline about her rumoured romance with Miles for the first time, Chloe insisted she isn’t looking for anything “serious”.
“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,” she explained.
“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.”
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Revealing how they met, the 42-year-old continued: “I met Miles at an Emmys party, it was a sit-down dinner, I was Vas Morgan’s plus 1 and they are friends.
“To be honest with you, I was minding my own business because Aerosmith were 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 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.”
The TV personality, who is mum to her 19-year-old daughter Madison, added: “What I will say is… in LA, 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.”
Chloe relocated to the US last year with her sisters Frankie, 27, and Demi, 25, to film the first season of their OnlyFans reality show, House Of Sims – which has since been picked up by Netflix.
They were also joined by their cousin Joey Essex.
Miles is the son of legendary singer Lionel Richie and his ex-wife Diane Alexander, who also share daughter Sofia Richie Grainge – a well-known model and influencer.
Miles and Sofia’s older sister Nicole was adopted by Lionel and his ex-wife Brenda Harvey.
The former couple took her in at just three years old, before she was legally adopted by them when she was nine.
Nicole, who is married to Good Charlotte star Joel Madden, shot to fame in the early 2000s when she filmed reality show The Simple Life with her BFF Paris Hilton.
