Actor and comedian Tom Arnold, 67, says he is ready to start dating women again. According to him, he has not had a single date in roughly the past nine and a half years.
Arnold admitted that he once joked about women his own age, calling them "disgusting." Now, in his own words, he sees attraction in women over sixty. This is a noticeable change of view for a man who has been married four times in his life: to Roseanne Barr, Julie Champnell, Shelby Roos, and Ashley Grossman. His divorce from Grossman was finalized after a period of separation. They have two children, aged 13 and 10, and the family circumstances of recent years have partly shaped his life away from the public eye.
Another story involving Arnold's name has recently emerged. Roseanne Barr publicly came to his defense after Chuck Lorre, in his memoir, commented on who actually wrote the scripts for the series. Arnold responded on social media with a short line: "Hell has finally frozen over." The remark quickly spread online, as many saw it as a rare sign of reconciliation between former spouses and co-workers from the set.
Arnold has long been known to the public for his open manner of talking about himself, often with self-irony. It was in this tone that he spoke about his loneliness and his new readiness for a relationship, without naming any specific potential partners and without explaining why he decided to raise the subject now. His earlier remarks about women his own age and his current words about women over sixty together show how his assessment of his own tastes has changed over the years.
For readers interested in the lives of public figures after divorce and their return to personal life in later years, these admissions reflect a common situation: many people in their early sixties rethink what matters to them in relationships. Arnold did not make his statement into a political or social appeal, limiting himself to sharing his own experience and mood.