Tom Arnold, now 67, has gone nearly a decade without a date, and he is beginning to imagine that stillness might not last. Having survived four marriages and the particular weight of public divorce, he speaks with a worn but open candor about wanting to be loved again. The shift in his outlook came, as such shifts often do, from simply meeting people: a comedy tour through a crowd of women who turned out to be funny, sharp, and far from the limits he had assumed. For now his heart rests in his children and his friends, while the question of romance waits quietly on the horizon.
Tom Arnold Says He's Ready to Love Again After Nearly a Decade Without a Date
Nine and a half years without a date, and he says he's ready
Mark
Nine and a half years without a date. Why is that the headline?
Mimi
Because he said it plainly, and it came with a change of heart. He used to dismiss the idea of dating people his age, and now he says he's open to it.
Mark
What changed his mind?
Mimi
His "My Crazy X-Wife" tour. He met many women on the road and came away saying there are a lot of funny, smart, sexy 60-something women.
Luke
Worth noting that's his own account. We have no detail on who he met or whether any of it led to a date.
Mark
Fair. He also talked about his kids.
Mimi
Jax is 13 and Quinn is 10. He said he loves them so much, and he named his buddies too. He seems to be saying he's not lonely, just open.
Luke
He also joked that women may not want a man who used to have money and now has two little kids. That's his read on it, not anything reported about dating.
Mark
And the Roseanne Barr piece?
Mimi
She defended him after Chuck Lorre's memoir claimed writers put Arnold's name on scripts. Arnold denied the claim to Entertainment Weekly, and he joked that hell froze over.
Luke
Right, but the memoir claim is Lorre's allegation, and Arnold's denial is his. The reporting here doesn't settle it either way.
Le Pouls
- A comedian who has not dated in nine and a half years finds his assumptions about later-life love cracking open after a tour full of unexpected company.
- His blunt dismissal of dating people his own age reveals the self-protective armor that four divorces have built around him.
- Old tensions resurface as Chuck Lorre's memoir stirs claims about the Roseanne writers' room, pulling Arnold back into a past he has long had to explain.
- Roseanne Barr's unexpectedly warm public defense turns an old feud into a rare moment of grudging alliance, and Arnold's reply lands with a dry laugh.
- No date is yet on the calendar; the trajectory points toward openness, steadied by his children and friends while the search for love remains unresolved.
Tom Arnold, now 67, has gone nearly a decade without a date, and he is beginning to imagine that stillness might not last. Having survived four marriages and the particular weight of public divorce, he speaks with a worn but open candor about wanting to be loved again. The shift in his outlook came, as such shifts often do, from simply meeting people: a comedy tour through a crowd of women who turned out to be funny, sharp, and far from the limits he had assumed. For now his heart rests in his children and his friends, while the question of romance waits quietly on the horizon.
Tom Arnold has not been on a date in about nine and a half years, and for the first time he sounds ready for that silence to end. The 67-year-old actor and comedian told Page Six that it would be good to love somebody and be loved, a line that sits oddly against his earlier bluntness about women his own age.
What changed his mind was his "My Crazy X-Wife" comedy tour. Night after night he met a wide range of women, and he came away convinced there are many funny, smart, sexy women in their sixties. The man who once found the idea of dating people his age almost laughable now speaks of possibility.
His history is long and public. He has been married four times, first to Roseanne Barr, then to Julie Lynn Champnella, Shelby Roos, and finally Ashley Groussman, a marriage that ended in divorce in 2020 after years of separation. He shares two children with Groussman, Jax, 13, and Quinn, 10. He is careful about what he assumes women want, and he does not presume they are looking for a man who once had money and now comes with two young kids.
For now, his love is focused close to home. He speaks of his children and his friends with obvious warmth, and he says he will be okay. "You know, I've had four marriages," he said, a remark that carries both humor and hard-won perspective.
The old world is also stirring around him. Chuck Lorre's memoir claimed that Roseanne writers were encouraged to put Arnold's name on scripts as if he had written them. Arnold denied it to Entertainment Weekly. Then Barr defended him to The Hollywood Reporter, with her characteristic bite, admitting he was telling the truth for once and thanking him. Arnold answered with a single line on social media: "Hell finally froze over today."
Whether the tour leads to an actual date remains unclear. What is clear is that Arnold is open to love again, and that his family and friends are keeping him steady while he waits to see what comes next.
Tom Arnold has not been on a date in about nine and a half years, and he says he is ready for that to change. The 67-year-old actor and comedian told Page Six in a recent interview that "it would be good to love somebody and be loved."
He described how his own thinking has shifted. People used to tell him to date someone his own age, and his answer was blunt: had they seen people his age? He called them "freaking disgusting." Then came his "My Crazy X-Wife" comedy tour, where he met a wide range of women. That experience, he said, taught him there are "a lot of funny, smart, sexy 60-something women" out there.
Arnold, known for "True Lies," has been married four times. His first marriage was to Roseanne Barr and lasted from 1990 to 1994. He then married hair stylist Julie Lynn Champnella, from 1995 to 1999, and Shelby Roos, from 2002 to 2008. His fourth marriage, to Ashley Groussman, ran from 2009 to 2020.
With Groussman he has two children, Jax, 13, and Quinn, 10. The couple had been separated for a few years before their divorce was finalized. Arnold told Page Six he does not assume women are looking for a man "that used to have a lot of money and now has two little kids." For now, he said, he has plenty of love in his life: "I love my kids so much. That's a lot of love there." He also named his buddies. "But I'll be okay," he added. "You know, I've had four marriages."
Barr has recently been part of the conversation around him as well. Chuck Lorre wrote in his memoir, "Sitcom," that "Roseanne" writers were encouraged to put Arnold's name on scripts as if he had written them. Arnold denied that to Entertainment Weekly. Barr then defended him in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Her comments came with her usual edge. She said she did not expect to say it often, but that Tom Arnold was telling the truth for once, and that he was defending her. She thanked him, calling it the first time he had done right by her in his life, with an expletive, and closed with "Thanks, Tom."
Arnold answered on social media with a single line: "Hell finally froze over today."
Whether the tour leads to an actual date is not something he addressed. What he did say is that he is open to it, and that his children and friends keep him steady in the meantime.
Citations marquantes
It would be good to love somebody and be loved.— Tom Arnold, to Page Six
Hell finally froze over today.— Tom Arnold, on social media, responding to Roseanne Barr defending him
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