Demi Sims
{{Short description|English television personality (born 1996)}}
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| image = Demi Sims.jpg
| caption = Sims in 2022
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|09|06|df=y}}
| notable_works = The Only Way Is Essex
Celebs Go Dating
Celeb Ex in the City
House of Sims
| relatives = Chloe Sims (half-sister)
Joey Essex (cousin)
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Demi Sims (born 6 September 1996) is an English television personality. She appeared on The Only Way Is Essex in 2014, between November 2018 and July 2022, and in late 2024. Sims was described by Emma Garland of Vice in December 2020 as one of the "very few openly bisexual women in mainstream reality TV" and has also appeared on Celeb Ex in the City, Celebs Go Dating, CelebAbility, and House of Sims. She was scheduled to participate on the boxing undercard of KSI vs Dillon Danis, though this was later postponed.
Life and career
Sims was born on 6 September 1996.{{Cite web |date=28 March 2024 |title=Demi Sims: her age, exes and what she's doing now |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/celebrity/news/towie-demi-sims/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Closer |language=en}} She came out as bisexual in her late teens{{Cite web |date=1 September 2019 |title=Celebs Go Dating's Demi Sims reflects on her coming out "struggle" |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a28882780/celebs-go-dating-demi-sims-coming-out/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB}} and has vitiligo. Sims, her sister Frankie Sims, their brother Charlie Sims,{{Cite web |title=TOWIE's Chloe Sims and family sign up for docuseries with OnlyFans {{!}} Radio Times |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/reality-tv/chloe-sims-towie-onlyfans-newsupdate/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=www.radiotimes.com |language=en-GB}} their half-sister Chloe Sims,{{Cite web |date=10 April 2024 |title=Frankie Sims shares rare snap of her and Demi's 'twin' mum and they look SO ALIKE |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/celebrity/news/demi-frankie-sims-mum/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Closer |language=en}} and their cousin Joey Essex{{Cite web |date=26 July 2024 |title=Love Island's Eve Gale's relationship with Demi Sims gets update |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a61709234/love-island-eve-gale-demi-sims-relationship-update/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB}} have all appeared on The Only Way Is Essex;{{efn|Joey from 2011{{Cite web |date=2024-07-29 |title=TOWIE's Joey Essex: his age, ex-girlfriends and Love Island stint |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/entertainment/tv-movies/joey-essex-towie/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=Closer |language=en}} to 2013,{{Cite web |title=Joey Essex's transformation from TOWIE to Love Island |url=https://www.capitalfm.com/news/tv-film/love-island/joey-essex-before-and-after-transformation/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Capital |language=en}} Chloe from 2011 to 2022, Charlie from 2013 to 2015,{{Cite web |date=2015-03-12 |title=TOWIE: Charlie quits and dumps Ferne? |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a634948/the-only-way-is-essex-has-charlie-sims-quit-and-broken-up-with-ferne/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB}} and Frankie from 2019 to 2022.}} Demi appeared on the programme in 2014 and from November 2018.
In 2019, she appeared on that year's series of Celebs Go Dating. She later dated that series' Megan Barton-Hanson and made a December 2020 appearance on her podcast You Come First.{{Cite web |last=Wakefield |first=Lily |date=30 December 2020 |title=Bisexual Love Island star called 'big, fat lesbian' by brother's girlfriend just minutes before her first date with a girl |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/12/30/megan-barton-hanson-love-island-bisexual-homophobia-girlfriend-demi-sims/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |website=PinkNews {{!}} Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news {{!}} LGBTQ+ news |language=en-US}} That month, the pair were described by Emma Garland of Vice as two of the "very few openly bisexual women in mainstream reality TV" alongside Chloe Ferry and the cast of The Bi Life.{{Cite web |last=Garland |first=Emma |date=16 December 2020 |title=There's Only One Megan Barton-Hanson |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/theres-only-one-megan-barton-hanson/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=VICE |language=en-US}} The pair later appeared on Eating With My Ex.{{Cite web |date=16 October 2023 |title=Love Island's Megan Barton-Hanson: her age, Instagram and relationship with Demi Sims |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/entertainment/love-island/megan-barton-hanson-love-island/ |access-date=16 December 2023 |website=Closer |language=en}} Sims also made solo appearances on CelebAbility{{Cite web |last=Guide |first=British Comedy |title=CelebAbility: Series 4, Episode 3 |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/celebability/episodes/4/3/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}} and Celeb Ex in the City{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Laura |date=29 November 2021 |title=A Place in the Sun's Danni Menzies mortified by Celebrity Ex in the City episode |url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/place-suns-danni-menzies-left-22310302 |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Birmingham Live |language=en}} and dated Leonie McSorley of Ex on the Beach and Francesca Farago of Too Hot to Handle. Shortly after breaking up with the latter, Sims was involved in a love triangle on The Only Way Is Essex and then did not date for about three years.{{Cite web |date=6 March 2024 |title=(Exclusive) Demi Sims: "I think it's important for people to see real love between two women" |url=https://diva-magazine.com/2024/03/06/demi-sims-exclusive/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=diva-magazine.com |language=en-GB}}
Sims left The Only Way Is Essex in July 2022,{{Cite web |date=20 July 2022 |title=The Sims sisters leave TOWIE to star in their own TV show on Only Fans TV |url=https://www.nationalworld.com/news/people/towies-former-sims-sisters-chloe-demi-frankie-star-own-tv-show-only-fans-tv-3775481 |access-date=21 March 2025 |website=NationalWorld |language=en}} by which time she was being managed by Georgia Shults, Charlie's girlfriend. Later that month, Demi, Chloe, Frankie, Charlie, and Shults were signed for House of Sims, a Keeping Up with the Kardashians-style documentary series aired on OFTV.{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=21 April 2023 |title=British Reality Star Chloe Sims on Joining OnlyFans, Moving to L.A. for Upcoming 'House of Sims' Show on OFTV |url=https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/chloe-sims-onlyfans-house-of-sims-free-oftv-1235590986/ |access-date=6 March 2025 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} By the end of that year,{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BUZZIqv7_0 |title=Catch Up with Demi Sims on OnlyFans! {{!}} House of Sims on OFTV |date=6 December 2022 |last=OnlyFans |access-date=11 March 2025 |via=YouTube}} Demi had launched an OnlyFans account in preparation for the series.{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=19 July 2022 |title=OnlyFans Signs 'Only Way Is Essex' Stars Chloe Sims, Demi & Frankie to Content Deal |url=https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/onlyfans-chloe-sims-demi-frankie-docuseries-1235319022/ |access-date=11 March 2025 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} The first episode of House of Sims aired in May 2023, with subsequent episodes airing weekly.{{Cite web |date=4 May 2023 |title=11 thoughts we had while watching House of Sims episode one |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/entertainment/tv-movies/house-of-sims-review/ |access-date=6 March 2025 |website=Closer |language=en}} Demi and Frankie moved to Los Angeles to film the series but moved back to Essex after filming following an argument with Chloe and Charlie,{{Cite web |date=23 December 2024 |title=Wait, is Joey Essex joining House of Sims cast after 'evil users' sister feud? |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/entertainment/towie/joey-essex-house-of-sims/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Closer |language=en}} which featured on the second series of House of Sims, broadcast in March 2024.{{Cite web |date=8 April 2024 |title=House of Sims: everything you need to know about season two |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/entertainment/tv-movies/house-of-sims/ |access-date=6 March 2025 |website=Closer |language=en}} In April 2024, Ben Pulsford of Closer wrote that the second series "somehow went from a wholesome postcard from LA to Big Brother{{'}}s Fight Night"{{Cite web |date=10 April 2024 |title=Frankie and Demi Sims reunite with TOWIE co-star amid House of Sims feud |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/entertainment/towie/frankie-demi-sims-frankie-essex/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Closer |language=en}} and Netflix aired the first series.{{Cite web |date=26 July 2024 |title=Demi Sims shares update on Kardashian-style reality show House of Sims |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a61707661/demi-sims-update-house-of-sims/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB}} Chloe stated in March 2025 that House of Sims had been cancelled.{{Cite web |date=27 March 2025 |title=Chloe Sims CONFIRMS House of Sims future amid feud with sisters |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/entertainment/towie/house-of-sims-future/ |access-date=29 March 2025 |website=Closer |language=en}}
Demi and Frankie announced a podcast together, Sims Squared, in March 2024, and reappeared on The Only Way Is Essex in late 2024{{Cite web |date=3 October 2024 |title=TOWIE cast: who is actually on the show? |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/entertainment/towie/cast-who-is-on-the-show/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Closer |language=en}} for a one-off appearance supporting Harry Derbidge, who had split up with Joe Blackman.{{Cite web |date=24 February 2025 |title=Demi Sims teases 'unfinished business' after TOWIE return |url=https://closeronline.co.uk/entertainment/towie/demi-sims-boxing/ |access-date=21 March 2025 |website=Closer |language=en}} Demi subsequently dated Eve Gale from Love Island and Jazz Saunders from Made in Chelsea.{{Cite web |date=7 March 2025 |title=TOWIE's Demi Sims goes official with new girlfriend in red carpet kiss |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a64083868/towie-demi-sims-jazz-saunders-relationship/ |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB}} Fans of reality television worked out her romance with Saunders before either announced it after Saunders announced she was dating her first woman and both uploaded footage to social media filmed on same balcony. In March 2025, she was scheduled to participate on the undercard of KSI vs Dillon Danis,{{Cite web |date=4 March 2025 |title=When is KSI vs Dillon Danis? Fight date, time, undercard and how to watch on TV |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/boxing/ksi-dillon-danis-fight-date-time-undercard-tv-b2708858.html |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=The Independent |language=en}} though this event was later postponed.{{Cite web |last=Heck |first=Mike |date=21 March 2025 |title=KSI vs. Dillon Danis event postponed |url=https://www.mmafighting.com/2025/3/21/24391044/ksi-vs-dillon-danis-event-postponed-misfits-boxing |access-date=23 March 2025 |website=MMA Fighting |language=en}}
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