EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Perry, 54, enjoys lunch date at Nobu Malibu with mystery woman in rare public sighting

Matthew Perry was spotted enjoying a date with a mystery brunette on Sunday, as the pair went for lunch at the celeb haunt Nobu Malibu in California. 

It was a rare sighting for the 54-year-old Friends star, who was pictured intimately placing his hand on the back of his female companion while ushering her towards the valet stand.

Matthew – who has been open about his battle with drink and drugs – was dressed smart and casual for the day out.

The actor has been single since ending his engagement to Molly Hurwitz in June 2021 after three years of dating.

His outing comes amid a new report that his pals are allegedly concerned about him smoking ‘two to three packs of cigarettes a day’ and ‘loading up on burgers and fries’ despite having a ‘professional trainer and nutritionist at his disposal.’

Rare public sighting! Five-time Emmy nominee Matthew Perry enjoyed a lunch date at Nobu Malibu on Sunday with mystery woman

New romance? At one point – the Massachusetts-born, Ottawa-raised 54-year-old intimately placed his hand on the back of his long-haired companion while talking near the valet

‘He’s lucky to be alive,’ an insider told the National Enquirer last Friday.

‘But his friends wish he wouldn’t tempt fate with all of those unhealthy habits.’

Meanwhile, Matthew’s date wore dark shades, a white blouse, and blue jeans for their expensive meal.

She bared a slight resemblance to Perry’s famous ex-girlfriend Julia Roberts, whom he split from in 1996 after a five-month fling.

The pickleball enthusiast fell for the 55-year-old Oscar winner ‘both figuratively and literally’ after her guest-starring gig on an episode of his hit sitcom Friends.

‘Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me,’ Matthew wrote in his 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.

‘Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unlovable. So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts.’

Perry has also reportedly loved and left the likes of Scream queen Neve Campbell, Gilmore Girl Lauren Graham, and Fatal Attraction star Lizzy Caplan.

Silvery goatee: Matthew – whose bald spot was visible – dressed his 6ft frame in a black sweater, grey slacks, and off-white laceless sneakers

On the prowl: Perry – whose colon burst from opioids in 2018 – has been single since ending his engagement to Thruline Entertainment literary manager Molly Hurwitz in June 2021 after three years of dating

Unhealthy? The twice-rehabbed star’s pals are allegedly concerned about him smoking ‘two to three packs of cigarettes a day’ and ‘loading up on burgers and fries’ despite having a ‘professional trainer and nutritionist at his disposal’

An insider told the National Enquirer last Friday: ‘He’s lucky to be alive. But his friends wish he wouldn’t tempt fate with all of those unhealthy habits’

Close-up: Meanwhile, Matthew’s date wore dark shades, a white blouse, and blue jeans for their expensive meal

Similar nose! She bared a slight resemblance to Perry’s famous ex-girlfriend Julia Roberts (R, pictured in 1995), whom he split from in 1996 after a five-month fling

‘The One After the Superbowl’: The pickleball enthusiast fell for the 55-year-old Oscar winner ‘both figuratively and literally’ after her guest-starring gig on an episode of his hit sitcom Friends

Matthew wrote in his 2022 memoir: ‘Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me. Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unlovable. So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts’

The SAG Award winner was paid in the ‘mid-seven-figures’ to detail his extensive history of alcohol and drug abuse in his 256-page, New York Times Bestselling tell-all.

Matthew – who received a Champion of Recovery award in 2013 for opening sober living home Perry House (which has since closed) – has also battled addictions to methadone and amphetamines.

Perry’s last acting gig as conservative talking head Dan Pawketty in Adam McKay’s dismally-reviewed 2021 climate change comedy Don’t Look Up was cut from the final film.

Audiences have not seen The Whole Nine Yards alum acting onscreen since he executive produced and starred as Ted Kennedy in the two-part miniseries The Kennedys: After Camelot, which aired in 2017 on Reelz.

Matthew famously earned an eye-popping $24M to play Chandler Bing between 2002-2003 on Friends, which ran for 10 seasons on NBC spanning 1994-2004.

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