RHOBH’s Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin’s Relationship Timeline

28.12.2022 - 19:55 / usmagazine.com

A story for the ages. Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin have been married for over two decades — but the couple’s journey to happily ever after wasn’t always easy.

After meeting in 1992, Rinna and Hamlin immediately felt a connection even though they were both in other relationships.

“It was sparks right away. She had just been to the circus the day before and she said, ‘Oh my God, I went to the circus last night and it was so sexy!’ I’m thinking to myself, ‘Wait a minute, here’s this girl. She’s sitting there and the elephants and the clowns and all that,'” the L.A. Law alum recalled on The Jess Cagle Show in 2019. “Because the only circus I’d ever been to was Ringling Brothers. But she was talking about Cirque du Soleil, which is very sexy, but I didn’t know that.”

Hamlin, who was married to Nicollette Sheridan from 1991 to 1992, noted that he was interested in Rinna from their first conversation. “I had not seen Cirque du Soleil at that point, so I thought, ‘If this girl can be turned on by elephant dung and whatever, I’m good with her.’ I was enchanted right away,” he added.

The pair reconnected later that year after they were both single. According to Rinna, it took some time for Hamlin to take the next step in their relationship due to his past. (The Emmy nominee was previously married to Laura Johnson from 1985 to 1992. He also shares son Dimitri with ex Ursula Andress.)

“Harry had been married twice before me, so Harry wasn’t very excited to get married again. Like, not at all. Zero,” the reality star explained on Live With Kelly and Ryan in 2017. “It took five years, which is kind of a long time when you’re waiting for it. I’d never been married.”

The California native continued: “So, long story short, we’re at dinner up in