Denise Richards - Wild thing

Silly name in a Bond film, nice white t-shirt
Denise Richards
When I did Playboy five months after having my baby I know I was selling a sexy image, but at home I don’t think of myself as sexy. I wake up and throw on a pair of sweats and make breakfast.

Starship Troopers was Paul Verhoeven’s ace shoot-em-up sci-fi flick which followed the dodgy – if enjoyably rude – Showgirls, and it was mostly brilliant because of a smouldering then 26-year-old with a ruddy big gun. Two years later that same honey was lezzing it up with Neve “Scream” Campbell in Wild Things, and then… our favourite big-eyed American sizzler signed up for a strong of crud and slowly disappeared from our lives.

Denise played a scorching bit part alongside Elisha Cuthbert in 2003 wife-pleaser Love Actually, but it took until 2008 for us to fully get our fix in the reality show Denise Richards: It’s Complicated. Sadly, “being sexy” played a distant second to “being a mom”. Still...

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Ranking history in the 100 Sexiest Women

2008 #77 | 2005 #47 | 2004 #44 | 2003 #39 | 2002 #14 | 2001 #5 | 2000 #11 | 1999 #23

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  • First found fame in 1997’s Starship Troopers movie, but became a household name in the US with own reality TV show, Denise Richards: It’s Complicated.

  • Former Mrs Charlie Sheen – she said their relationship went south when he started visiting hookers and threatened to kill her.

  • Officially the daftest-named Bond girl ever: Dr Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.

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