Denise Richards and Richie Sambora are back together again

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These photos are from 2007

I think it was the illustrious J-Wowww who compared reconciling with an old boyfriend to reheating cooked pasta. It’s a good analogy, really, because an old flame can seem familiar and comforting but much blander and staler the second time around. When we’re talking about Richie Sambora, I guess it’s more like reheating spoiled meat though. He never was a catch and never will be, although I guess a drunken rocker can seem like an awesome boyfriend when you compare him to a drugged out TV star who hires hookers he finds on the Barely Legal adult film series.

Anyway last year The Enquirer was claiming that these two were together over the summer, I had forgotten about that. They were first linked in 2006, broke up about a year later, and now they’re supposedly together yet again, according to The Enquirer’s sister site, Radar Online. I doubt they’ve been together since last summer this go-round. I bet Denise just calls her tabloid contacts whenever she has dinner with Richie. Here’s more:

They say love never dies!

Bombshell beauty Denise Richards is back together with her ex-boyfriend Richie Sambora, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

“They are dating again,” a source close to the couple revealed.

Richards, 40, and Sambora, 52, dated in 2006 following their divorces from Charlie Sheen and Heather Locklear, respectively, but broke up in 2007.

Now it seems like the pair have reconciled again, following a romantic dinner at Tatsuki sushi restaurant in Woodland Hills, California on Sunday night. “They were there over an hour and they had the whole place to themselves for the last half hour.”

Denise and Richie walked by a tattoo parlor on the way out of the restaurant and he joked to Denise, “What do ya think, should I get one?” and she laughed.

“It is serious but they are trying to keep it low key,” the source told RadarOnline.com about the on again couple.

[From Radar Online]

The “low key” crap is very similar to the story last year about how they were “staying out of the public eye because they didn’t want to become part of the media hoopla surrounding their ex-spouses.” Denise probably wants to hit up a few red carpets and have dinner at Mr. Chow but Richie is probably telling her “no.” So she’s telling Radar and The Enquirer that they’re trying to keep it “low key.”

This is mildly interesting to me on a “what is she thinking?” level. If Denise and Richie started getting papped together I think the collective response would be a shrug and she knows that. So… well played?

Here’s Denise and Richie on vacation on 01/31/07. Is she putting on sunscreen or sniffing something?

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Photo credit: Fame Pictures

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  1. atlantapug says:

    They deserve each other.

  2. Jayna says:

    She needs to watch out. He’s a great guy but has recurring alcohol issues.

  3. lin234 says:

    . opps!

  4. Peachy says:

    Wow, poor Denise really has such bad luck with men – First Charlie and now Satan…

  5. dorothy says:

    Yawn.

  6. Celebitchy says:

    @lin – it says twice in this story that these photos are from 2007. It’s up at the top of the page and again at the bottom.

  7. Katyusha says:

    OMG!! His sunburn!!!

    That’s gonna hurt later.

    Edit: or it already did.

  8. cr says:

    Peachy: he is looking a bit lobstery/satanic in these pics, isn’t he?
    I had a bit of a crush on him, back in the days.

  9. Tia says:

    DUDE!!! S.U.N.S.C.R.E.E.N!! I didn’t even know a human could be that color.. dahaaamn

  10. mary simon says:

    Baywatch alert! Hairy red lobster loose on the beach!

  11. Jackie says:

    she has such poor taste in men!

    she sure does love the addicts…

  12. serena says:

    How can she go out with a gross man like that? Is not attractive in the slightest. He’s just disgusting.

    Yeah, I think she was sniffing. But I bet everyone in Hollywood do so, even the most lowkey celebrities.

  13. Jezi says:

    He’s RED!!!! I guess they want people to believe that they really did love eachother. The first go around was scandalous because she was dating her friend’s ex. Now it’s just like whatever.

  14. Westcoaster says:

    Would love to hear Heather Locklear’s opinion of this.

  15. Redd says:

    Oh poor Denise, she picked another LOSER!

  16. Leticia says:

    For those who are wondering why she would go back to Sambora: in any other city Denise Richards would be considered drop dead gorgeous BUT in L.A. she is just another hot 40 year old. Competition in L.A. is beyond fierce cause every high school beauty queen moves to L.A. to get discovered.

    My advice to Denise would be to move to Phoenix or a less competitive dating market and she would have her pick of the litter.

  17. cmc says:

    Wow…not until these pictures did I really appreciate how much she messed up her face!! She looked so beautiful in her natural state.

  18. k says:

    What is she thinking? Probably that there are slim pickings as you get older.

  19. Kelly says:

    Yeah, the only comment I had was about his sunburn. He’s practically the same color as the guy in Storage Wars – hard to believe a human being could get to be that color. Whyyyyy??? SPF 500, STAT!

  20. theaPie says:

    I like Denise, but man does she have terrible taste in men.

  21. Shannon says:

    I guess I’m going against the grain here, I think they’re kind of cute together. Sambora seems like a good influence in tamping down her somewhat famewhorey ways. And it’s clear that they love each other for who they are, not what they look like. That’s pretty rare in L.A. and Hollywood, so good for them.

    I don’t agree with the reheated pasta thing. I mean, if you’re not a good match for someone, maybe it’s true. But sometimes, you only figure out how much you love someone by taking a break and dating other people. That’s the situation I’ve found myself in. It doesn’t mean you’re going back to something stale or that it’s doomed to repeat past failures. Sometimes the perspective and maturity you gain in the meantime allows you to have a better relationship with that person going forward. Granted, I’m 23 and these people are over 40, so maybe it’s more applicable to me than them. But Denise has handled the whole Charlie Sheen thing remarkably well. I have a much higher opinion of her for that than I did before. It was a classy thing to do, especially because I’m sure she has some crazy stories about the guy. She easily could have capitalized on them for media attention, but she didn’t.

  22. Patricia says:

    I’ve learned the hard way that if a relationship doesn’t work the first time around, there is usually a very good reason. She might rediscover that reason soon.

    My mantra regarding old flames is “Future happiness is forward not backward.”

    Can be easier said than done though :/

  23. Violet says:

    @Shannon

    You may not be aware of this, but these two hooked up while he was still married to Heather Locklear AND while Denise was one of Heather’s closest friends. Needless to say, that all changed when Heather found out about the two of them.

    Richie Sambora looks like a lumpen thing. He didn’t even look good when he was young, but he’s totally let his body go. By Hollywood stands, he’s fat and soft so I’m quite shocked she’d stoop so low. But, yeah. Reheated pasta / spoiled meat. In either case, yuck.

  24. Jane says:

    She looks so good for being 40. Didn’t even know she was 40. She still looks 35 to me.

  25. Dani says:

    Nice pair.

  26. Kim says:

    Shouldnt she be home with the baby she just adopted and focusing on that??

  27. ShanKat says:

    Hot fiery tittays! What adult person still gets that sunburned? He has yet to master sunscreen, in his 50’s?

    Crusty 90’s famewhores out in that north Valley, with their kids and their scene. They’re perfect for each other.

  28. missanne says:

    I like her a lot…she goes on howard stern pretty frequently and she’s very down to earth. I always enjoy when she’s on because she is brutally honest with howard…she talks about how she’s got a 2 guys she meets at hotels and she gets all slutted up and has fun.

  29. ... says:

    Reminds me of very similar photos of them sunbathing years ago except in those her vag was hanging out. It’s was the most baffling, grotesque looking thing I’d ever seen. I cannot believe no one brought that up, I made a vow for cesarean that day.

  30. michelle says:

    Well derr!Only a blind person wouldn’t see the olympic sized rails of coke on that table on the beach! Frickin rookies.

  31. CeeCee says:

    he looks like reheated cooked pasta.

  32. Tara says:

    I know why she’s with him…

    Ex-wife Heather Locklear said in an interview once that he’s bigger than Tommy Lee. Attack of the dong!

  33. Laura says:

    Eh, I still find him attractive, though i’d much rather Jon Bon Jovi out of the two.

  34. Maria Elvira says:

    OMG! How people can hurt their idols. Just for fun! OMG!!!

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