Denise Richards’ seems fully prepared for the excitement that lies ahead as the newest cast member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which is currently shooting its ninth season and has counted Richards as a fan from the beginning.
“Heck yeah!” Richards told Us Weekly back in 2011 when asked if she’d consider joining RHOBH, which had only been on for one season at the time. “It’s one of my favorite shows!”
The woman who launched a million teenage fantasies 20 years ago when she whipped her top off in the cult-classic Wild Things and then married and divorced Charlie Sheen finds herself in like-minded reality-TV company among the multi-tasking wives, ex-wives and moms who populate Bravo’s geographically sprawling franchise.
Wild Things was only Richards’ second movie, but by then she was a veteran model and had popped up a dozen times on TV on the likes of Saved by the Bell and Beverly Hills, 90210.
The twisty noir drama catapulted her into Maxim, FHM and, eventually, Playboy history as she became one of the premiere pin-ups of the late ’90s and early ’00s. She even played a Bond girl, nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones opposite Pierce Brosnan‘s 007 in 1999’s The World Is Not Enough. Also that year she had what was perhaps her best acting role (no offense, Dr. Jones), in the dark pageant comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous.