...the funny farm that is! Welcome to the life of Denise Richards, cray-cray celebrity du jour. Her new reality show, "Denise Richards: It's Complicated" debuted this week on the "E" Channel. And you know what? It's actually pretty simple. She's flippin' nuts.
The show is unexpectedly entertaining and watchable. I love her Illinois accent (just a farm girl at heart), coupled with her sailor mouth (well, maybe not so much). She says in the intro that we may only know her from "Wild Things" and the tabloids, but her actual life is all about family. She lives in a big house outside of LA, with her dad, her 2 young daughters, 10 dogs, 2 cats, 2 or 3 pigs, some horses, 2 assistants...in other words, surrounded with creatures that have no choice but to find her fascinating, lovable, and who have to do what she says. Yay, family!
And despite, or perhaps because of all of this, I find myself liking her. In her own words, "I can't help it, I just like f**king hot guys with big d**ks!" Well, who doesn't? At least she's honest. She seems to have a pretty good time, playing piggy matchmaker or watching her assistants pick up dog shit in her backyard. She may be wacked, but she is a hell of a lot more interesting to watch than poker-faced Lauren Conrad on the Hills, or those awful Kardashian women.
Watching Denise call different stud farms to try to find sperm for her pet pig Charlotte (because she feels that Charlotte would make a great mother), you can't help but draw a parallel to her interview with Matt Lauer, in which he asked DR about an email allegedly sent to Charlie Sheen asking for him to donate his sperm to her so that she could have another child. She denies it but, you know, what's good enough for Charlotte...
Tonight's episode was peppered with a nice little tidbit of irony (purposeful or not, I am unsure). At every commercial break, there was an announcement that Charlie Sheen got married today, and that his new wife Brooke Mueller may already be pregnant. Ouch. Somehow I don't think that Brooke will approve of her husband paying alimony to his ex-wife with his little swimmers.
