Real Housewives of Cheshire’s Lauren Simon appears in new First Dates series – but suffers awkward moment when her suitor doesn’t know who she is!

Real Housewives of Cheshire's Lauren Simon will appear in the new series of First Dates.

An exclusive new clip shared with MailOnline on Tuesday ahead of the first episode showed the reality star, 47, heading to the famous London restaurant in the hope of finding love.

She put on a glamorous show in a busty green dress as she was greeted at the door by Maitre'd Fred Sirieix.

Lauren divorced real estate mogul Paul Simon in 2018 after 13 years of marriage and is now looking for love again.

When she arrived Fred said, 'Hi! I've been watching you for so many years!', as some excited waitresses recognized who she was.

Real Housewives of Cheshire's Lauren Simon will appear in the new series of First Dates from Tuesday

An exclusive new clip shared with MailOnline ahead of the first episode on Tuesday showed the reality star, 47, on a date with Chiles (seen) who didn't know who she was

She then headed off to meet her date Chiles, who complimented her on looking “absolutely gorgeous.”

Things quickly went downhill from there when he asked her what she did for a living, to which she replied, “I think you know what I do…”

Chiles was completely baffled as he asked, “No, I don't know, why would I have guessed that?” There's a story there, I'm now very intrigued by what you're doing…'

Later at dinner she said to him: 'I work in television on Real Housewives of Cheshire, which is highly publicized in Manchester, so I would have assumed you would have known!'

He replied, “Oh okay, okay!”, before a long silence followed.

Lauren, who shot to fame on the hit ITVBe show and has an estimated fortune of £6.9million, split from her millionaire husband of 10 years Paul in 2018.

She said at the time: “I'm having fun and dating a lot of different people, but I'm never getting married again.”

During the divorce battle, Lauren took time away from the show to focus on it.

She put on a glamorous show in a busty green dress as she was greeted at the door by Maitre'd Fred Sirieix

She then headed off to meet her date Chiles, who complimented her on looking “absolutely gorgeous.”

Things quickly went downhill from there when he asked her what she did for a living, to which she replied, “I think you know what I do…”

Chiles was completely baffled as he asked, “No, I don't know, why would I have guessed that?” There's a story there, I'm now very intrigued by what you're doing…'

Lauren told Closer at the time, “I took a year off from filming to try to finalize the divorce, but the plan was always to get back on the show.

'I just needed some time off to sort myself out because it was a huge life change.

'The divorce battle is unfortunately still ongoing, but it felt like the right time for me to move back.'

Lauren was awarded a £3 million payout as part of divorce negotiations, but her ex-husband fought it, claiming it was 'discriminatory'.

First Dates returns to Channel 4 on Tuesday, January 2 at 10pm.

Lauren split from real estate mogul Paul Simon in 2018 after 13 years of marriage and is now looking for love again (seen with Paul)

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