We've always had a soft spot for The Real Housewives of Cheshire's Lauren Simon.
Not only is she unfiltered golden television, but her outrageous 'hun' energy is through the roof and, naturally, speaks to us intimately; she's a Closer queen if we ever saw one and somehow we love her even more now she's been on Celebrity Big Brother.
Take her post-eviction movements, for example...
Not only has she been spilling some major tea on CBB and her celeb housemates (including her plan to get Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu on RHOCheshire), but she chose this hype time to hard launch her new boyfriend on her Instagram grid and looked EXPENSIVE af while doing it. Utter hun behaviour.
She captioned the announcement photo, "Meet my boyfriend - he finally made it to the grid ❤️#happyeverything."
You want all the tea right now, don't you? Sadly, Lauren is a RHOCheshire veteran and knows how to tease a storyline to her followers, so chances are we won't know the juicy deets until he appears on series 17 in a couple of weeks.
Here's what we do know; Lauren has been keeping this spot of tea all to herself for a WHILE and now that the news is out there, her Housewives co-stars are going public with their congratulations.
Rachel Lugo commented, "Awwwww Nicole Sealey and I love you and miss you … so happy for you ❤️❤️❤️❤️."
Ester Dee wrote, "Love birds 😍", while Lystra Adams and Tanya Bardsley littered her comments with heart emojis.
In addition to sharing a stunning snap with her new boyf, Lauren also posted a cutesy video, telling her followers, "I'm not sure if this is a good angle, but we are celebrating everything."
Congratulations, Lauren – and we mean for everything.
Lauren's turbulent love life has fuelled some of the show's biggest storylines over the years. The flirty, fiery and unfiltered Cheshire Housewife has been ALL of us at one time or another during her nine-year stint on the show and no doubt that's why she's the longest-reigning member of this fabulous cast.
Remember Lauren's 'mystery' plumber?
Remember Lauren's 'mystery man' on the last series of RHOCheshire? His name was Warren and he matched with Lauren on a dating app. He was a plumber by trade, oh, and he "fixed" Lauren's pipes a fair few times – those are Lauren's words not ours, so don't come for us.
RHOCheshire fans met Warren very briefly in May 2023 during a very staged conversation on The RHOCheshire with our Lauren in bed (bless him, he's definitely new to telly).
As soon as the scene aired, Lauren shared a couple of pictures of her and Warren (and a BTS video from filming) on her Instagram, even launching a poll to see whether her followers thought he was right for her.
What happend with Lauren and Paul Simon?
Lauren was married to property developer Paul Simon for 13 years, but shortly after she made her debut on the show the couple split.
In series nine, she revealed, "I took a year off filming to try and finalise the divorce, but the plan was always to go back to the show."
"I just needed to take some time off to sort myself out because it was a huge life change. The divorce battle is sadly still ongoing, but it felt like the right time to go back for me," she told OK! magazine.
"I’ve had a three and a half year hellish divorce battle, so I really needed a year off to relax. I’ve just been hiding away, being healthy, going to the gym, practising lots of mindfulness and reading self-help books.
"I needed to look after me, and put myself first. The show is full on and I didn’t feel like I could give it 100 per cent last year."