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Comedian Tom Arnold says he hasn’t dated or had sex in years.
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He chalked it up to people his age being “freaking disgusting,” but said he’s had a realization as of late.
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The father of two has been married and divorced four times.
Tom Arnold, 67, is still looking for love.
“I used to say, people are like, because I haven’t had a date for nine and a half years, ‘You should date someone your own age,'” the True Lies star told Page Six. “And I’m like, ‘Dude, have you seen people my age? We are freaking disgusting.'”
Arnold said he hasn’t had sex in a decade, but he really does want some romance in his life again. He said he’s had a realization that could help.
“But here’s the thing,” Arnold said. “I have learned there’s a lot of funny, smart, sexy, 60-something women.”
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And it’s not like the actor and comedian hasn’t ever been in love — he’s been married and divorced four times.
His exes include Roseanne Barr, to whom he was married from 1990 to 1994; Julie Armstrong, his wife from 1995 to 1999; and Shelby Roos, his spouse from 2002 to 2008. He wed Ashley Groussman, with whom he shares two kids, in 2009.
Arnold and Groussman finalized their divorce in 2020.
They agreed to share joint custody of son Jax, who’s now 13, and 10-year-old daughter Quinn.
“We tried to make it work,” Arnold told PEOPLE. “It wasn’t a big dramatic thing. It wasn’t all of a sudden. We definitely grew apart. It’s been a rough couple of years. Because I’m a father, I genuinely have the best life I’ve ever had and I’m so grateful to Ashley because I would not be a father if not for her.”
He added, “We had many good years together.”
The breakup of Arnold’s marriage to Barr was decidedly less amicable.
The Roseannealums parted ways more than 30 years ago, but the subject remains a sensitive one for him.
Just last month, he was floored when she stood up for him publicly.
Producer Chuck Lorre, who’d worked alongside the couple on her titular show in the early ’90s, wrote in his book, Sitcom: A Memoir, that the Roseanne writers were made to put Arnold’s name on scripts that he didn’t write.
Arnold slammed his comments.
When she was asked about the kerfuffle, Barr said, “Unbelievably — I don’t think you’ll hear me say this often — but Tom Arnold is telling the truth for once. Talk about the paradigm switch here. Tom Arnold is defending me. I have to thank him for that. That’s the first time he’s done something right by me in his f—ing life. Thanks, Tom.”
His reaction was, “Hell finally froze over today.”
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