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Privacy NoticeJoey Essex has had a rollercoaster time in this summer’s Love Island so far, and his cousin Chloe Sims says she’s been glued to her TV watching it all unfold. The 42-year-old fellow reality star, who now lives most of the year in Los Angeles filming her House of Sims reality show for Netflix, says she binge-watched the first week’s episode after only landing back in the UK after the drama had already kicked off. Her cousin Joey, who made history as the oldest villa resident at 33, has been embroiled in many a love triangle as producers rolled in a stream of women from his past. Chloe told OK! in our exclusive chat about dating, family, and her new LA life, that she “liked” his former flame Grace Jackson, and Joey’s recoupling with bombshell Jessy left her “speechless”.
Grace and Jessy knew each other from outside the villa
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She told us she had no idea he was signed up to the show – which she herself loves – and was totally shocked when the news landed with her Stateside. “I was completely shocked! Then I realised his agent had actually reached out and sent me a text pre-written by Joey. I was absolutely fuming because I thought, ‘I can’t watch this in the US’ and I really want to watch because he’s there, and because I love Love Island!” Now that she’s back in the UK for the summer, Chloe has been catching up on all the villa goings on, and paid particularly close attention to Grace and Joey. The pair, who previously dated outside the villa, were coupled up following Joey’s first coupling with Samantha Kenny, and were getting on like a house on fire, until Jessy’s arrival threw a spanner in the works. After picking him as her first choice, Jessy and Joey then shared a secret kiss on the villa terrace, which then of course became common knowledge and sent shockwaves through the villa.
Joey shared a ‘secret’ kiss on the terrace with Jessy earlier in the Love Island series
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Giving her verdict on how her cousin has conducted himself on the show thus far, Chloe, who said she watches the show with her and Joey’s nan Linda, said she wanted to see him “blossom”. “I think we know why he’s single,” she laughed. “I know how much he wants to settle down and he’s definitely looking for love, but I think he thinks, ‘the grass is always greener’. “We were really excited by the Grace situation so when the recoupling [with Jessy] happened, I was speechless. I just hope Joey proves everyone wrong.” She also said she hoped producers would “they stop putting women in there who he knows”, but admits she’s aware that some of the best entertainment on this year’s series has come as a result of that, adding: “He’s my cousin so I’m biased, but would the show be as interesting without him in it? I don’t think so.” Chloe and Joey, who both starred in The Only Way in Essex back in the day, recently spent time together at Chloe’s new LA base while Joey filmed his second reality show of the year (so far!). After introducing her cousin to Selling Sunset’s Chelsea Lazkani, Joey spent six weeks in LA filming for the next series of the hit Netflix property show.Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnChloe SimsJoey EssexLove Island
