Denise Richards is one of our least favorite celebrities on the planet.

Still, we're forced to profile her because Dancing with the Stars has chosen this exploitive mother for its eighth season of competition.

With that in mind, here are a few Richards-related facts:

• She's teaming with Maksim Chmerkovskiy on the show;
• The movies she is best known for include: Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough;
• Her reality show, Denise Richards: It's Complicated, airs on E!;
• She has posed more than once in Playboy.

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