Which Of These Hollywood Actresses Did Denise Richards Go Girl-On-Girl With?

Alyssa Milano

What movie did Alyssa Milano and Denise Richards star in together? To my knowledge, not a one. However, in 1994, Richards played “Tammy” in Tammy and the T-Rex—hey, everyone has to start somewhere—opposite a very handsome Paul Walker. Three years before that, Walker appeared on Who’s The Boss, which starred… Alyssa Milano.

What if Walker introduced Milano and Richards? That would have occurred some time between Milano’s engagement to Scott Wolf and before she eventually married Cinjun Tate of Remy Zero. Though Milano might be a vegetarian, I still have a hard time seeing her dabbling in vagitarianism—so the potential for a Milano/Richards sandwich seems highly unlikely.

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Heather Locklear
Melrose Place had a cast full of beautiful, girlie-girl types, but with a quick scan through all the major players, there’s really only one who had that bi-curious glow around her: Heather Locklear.

At first I might have guessed Marcia Cross, who played crazy-ass Kimberly, but she seems a bit too thoughtful for Ms. Richards. No offense to Denise, I just mean that Cross doesn’t seem like the type who would put her paws in the lady puddin’ without a lot of premeditating.

Which brings us to Locklear who, playing resident bitch Amanda, very likely could have turned on a submissive lipstick lez like Richards when she came on the show for three episodes in 1996. Locklear was married to Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora at the time, but let’s just view that as a technicality.

Instead let’s imagine the blur of blonde and brunette hair whipping around as the two ladies tackle each other in Mrs. Locklear-Sambora’s trailer for the first time. Teeth mashing into teeth, hands frantically racing over each other’s bodies, tearing at button snaps and easily un-hooking familiar bra fasteners—what a hot connection this team would make! Could we call them “Henise” or “Deather”? Maybe “Lockards” or “Richlear”?

Imagine the two ladies crossing into foreign female frontiers they had never imagined venturing into before, splitting up only when Locklear told Richards, “Baby, I can’t do this anymore. I’m gonna have Richie’s baby,” whom she gave birth to in 1997.

Fast-forward to 2001: “Henise” is reunited when Richards joins future hubby Sheen on Spin City for four episodes and brazenly smooches Locklear on screen. Unbeknownst to the viewing audience, this was only the tip of the lesbian iceberg. But this time, Richards is the one who ditches Locklear when she marries Sheen in 2002. Locklear might have been able to capitalize on Richards’ last minute munchies for a missus before she moseyed on down the aisle but the reunion would have been quite brief.

P.S: Do you think Charlie Sheen would be good sex? Just curious.

P.P.S.: You know Sambora, Locklear, Sheen and Richards got their foursome on. Come on now, it just makes sense!

Now imagine, the wild fury of the Locklear when she divorced Sambora in 2006 and believed she might have a chance to go on another carpet ride with Richards again, now that the Wild Things star had finally split from Sheen the very same year.

But what happens instead? Locklear gets to watch her best friend and sometime bedmate move in on Sambora. Bitch! You know how [slight stereotype alert] some lesbians like to keep their circles tight and swap exes? “Hell no honey,” says Heather, “not if you want to keep your face attached to your head!” That would be some seriously shady game if Richards threw out the taco and just dove into the meat. But also a fabulous finale to an ill-fated fling.

Image from ABC via Melrose Place Page.

Rue McClanahan
There were some reaaaal hot peeps in the sci-fi action adventure flick Starship Troopers—Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Patrick Muldoon, Ms. Richards. And that co-ed shower scene was the stuff our 14-year-old fantasies were made of. But frankly, if you had the chance to get with Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, who played an instructor in the film, wouldn’t you? R.I.P. Rue, but those be some legendary ladyparts!

Image via TriStar Pictures.

Neve Campbell

“And cut! Okay ladies, that’s a wrap.  Ladies? LADIES!”

The summer I was 16, I was forced to spend a week with my grandparents in Bumblefuck, North Carolina. Determined to make something out of it, I rented every movie my mom would never let me see.  I got a glimpse of Ewan McGregor getting his gay on in Velvet Goldmine and saw Kevin Bacon flash his bacon strip (it’s a millisecond but trust, you can freeze-frame that action) while Neve and Denise slobber all over each other in Wild Things.

A sexually frustrated teen, I didn’t care what it was I was looking at, so long as it was naked. Thus I could appreciate watching Ms. Richards practically scissor the house down with Ms. Campbell. What if the two just couldn’t stop themselves when the director of this 1998 thriller yelled, “Cut”? Or maybe rehearsals for the siren-on-siren scene got particularly extensive and the duo steamed up a trailer  from deep cleaning each others’ velvet curtains…

It’s almost so obvious that it just doesn’t seem likely. Although, Wild Things could be where Ms. Richards got her taste for lady fingers.

Image via Mandalay Entertainment.

The Cast of Drop Dead Gorgeous

Drop Dead Gorgeous might have provided a goldmine of Sapphic opportunities for a full-time lesbian, but if we were Denise Richards, do any of these gals seem ripe for the proverbial plucking? Kirsten Dunst? Pass. Ellen Barkin? Nope. Allison Janney? Not the right fit. Kirstie Alley? Um, no. Mindy Sterling? Not really. Brittany Murphy? Can’t see it. Amy Adams? Like she would ever! I’m fairly certain this isn’t where Richards caught her short-lived beaver fever.

Image via New Line Cinema.

Judi Dench

There’s something sacred about Dame Judi Dench, isn’t there? And something a bit too conservative and curmudgeon-y about her when she plays Q in the James Bond movies that almost entirely rules her out. I never thought she’d be capable of lady-lovin’ until she got all hot-to-trot for Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal.

Assuming Richards and the Dench spent some time together on the set of 1999’s The World Is Not Enough—you know, the movie that asks us to believe she’s a nuclear physicist named Christmas Jones—then maybe, just maybe, it coulda gone down.

I mean, if you had a chance to tap some British nobility, wouldn’t you?

Image via Eon Productions and MGM.

The Ladies of Friends

Richards starred in one episode of Friends, as Monica and Ross’ cousin. But like any of these ladies would be more than just friends?

Yeah right.

Image via Warner Brothers Television and NBC.