Chloe Sims Sims became noticed as one of the cast members in the British ITVBe (formerly ITV2) reality TV series, "The Only Way Is Essex". She is the cousin of two of her former cast mates, Joey Essex and Frankie Essex. In the series, she starts to form a close relationship with her best friend Lauren Pope. Sims had an on and off relationship with Elliott Wright in series 12 until series 15. She first appeared in 2011 in series 2 as a supporting cast member until she was fully taken as a primary cast member. Sims is one of the longest
Reality television plots and subject matters on reality television are more authentic and more engaging than in scripted dramas, writing that scripted network television "remains dominated by variants on the police procedural... in which a stock group of characters (ethnically, sexually, and generationally diverse) grapples with endless versions of the same dilemma. The episodes have all the ritual predictability of Japanese Noh theater," while reality television is "the liveliest genre on the set right now. It has engaged hot-button cultural issues – class, sex, race – that respectable television... rarely touches." Television critic James Poniewozik wrote that reality shows like "Deadliest Catch"