A REALITY TV star who burned her wedding dress to celebrate her divorce is now facing bankruptcy amid another legal battle. Celebrity Big Brother contestant Lauren Simon , 51, says she was "destroyed" after her eight-year divorce battle ended in her getting none of her multimillionaire ex-husband's money. Lauren, who featured on ITV's Real Housewives of Cheshire, had initially been handed a £3m lump sum by a judge in 2018 after the end of her 13-year marriage to property tycoon Paul Simon , 54.
But Paul later won an appeal against the order after claiming that, as the couple had only £2m between them in liquid assets, he was left with no ready cash of his own. The couple subsequently agreed to settle the case in February 2021, with Lauren being given the right to live in a £1.8m mansion in Altrincham for life - but with no cash payout for her.
In 2021, after reaching the settlement with her ex, Lauren gave an interview in which she described having a party where she burned her wedding dress to celebrate the divorce. This was not the end of Lauren's legal woes however, as the settlement was scrapped and the pair were dragged back to court by the company which lent the TV star the money to pay her lawyers. The lending company - Integro Funding Limited, trading as 'Level' - claimed the couple had entered into a "collusive agreement" to avoid the firm being paid back the £1.
2m she owes them. The company was then joined to the divorce case and the former couple were taken back.