diff --git a/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/GpuOverrides.scala b/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/GpuOverrides.scala
index fef7bea85dd..573c22e3312 100644
--- a/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/GpuOverrides.scala
+++ b/sql-plugin/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/GpuOverrides.scala
@@ -3501,6 +3501,34 @@ object GpuOverrides extends Logging {
         ("src", TypeSig.STRING, TypeSig.STRING),
         ("search", TypeSig.lit(TypeEnum.STRING), TypeSig.STRING)),
       (a, conf, p, r) => new BinaryExprMeta[Like](a, conf, p, r) {
+        override def tagExprForGpu(): Unit = {
+          a.right match {
+            case Literal(v: UTF8String, _) =>
+              val pattern = v.toString
+              val esc = a.escapeChar
+              var i = 0
+              while (i < pattern.length) {
+                if (pattern.charAt(i) == esc) {
+                  val j = i + 1
+                  if (j >= pattern.length) {
+                    willNotWorkOnGpu(
+                      "invalid LIKE escape pattern")
+                    return
+                  }
+                  val c = pattern.charAt(j)
+                  if (c != '_' && c != '%' && c != esc) {
+                    willNotWorkOnGpu(
+                      "invalid LIKE escape pattern")
+                    return
+                  }
+                  i = j + 1
+                } else {
+                  i += 1
+                }
+              }
+            case _ =>
+          }
+        }
         override def convertToGpu(lhs: Expression, rhs: Expression): GpuExpression =
           GpuLike(lhs, rhs, a.escapeChar)
       }),
diff --git a/tests/src/test/spark330/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/utils/RapidsTestSettings.scala b/tests/src/test/spark330/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/utils/RapidsTestSettings.scala
index 085d823d383..72d17d3b4da 100644
--- a/tests/src/test/spark330/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/utils/RapidsTestSettings.scala
+++ b/tests/src/test/spark330/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/rapids/utils/RapidsTestSettings.scala
@@ -227,7 +227,6 @@ class RapidsTestSettings extends BackendTestSettings {
     .exclude("SPARK-19650: An action on a Command should not trigger a Spark job", KNOWN_ISSUE("https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids/issues/14110"))
     .exclude("SPARK-31594: Do not display the seed of rand/randn with no argument in output schema", ADJUST_UT("Replaced by testRapids version with a correct regex expression to match the projectExplainOutput, randn isn't supported now. See https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids/issues/11613"))
     .exclude("normalize special floating numbers in subquery", KNOWN_ISSUE("https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids/issues/14116"))
-    .exclude("SPARK-33677: LikeSimplification should be skipped if pattern contains any escapeChar", KNOWN_ISSUE("https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids/issues/14117"))
     .exclude("SPARK-33593: Vector reader got incorrect data with binary partition value", KNOWN_ISSUE("https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids/issues/14118"))
     .exclude("SPARK-33084: Add jar support Ivy URI in SQL -- jar contains udf class", ADJUST_UT("Replaced by testRapids version that uses testFile() to access Spark test resources instead of getContextClassLoader"))
     .exclude("SPARK-33482: Fix FileScan canonicalization", KNOWN_ISSUE("https://github.com/NVIDIA/spark-rapids/issues/14122"))