Richard Simmons dead at 76

[TwiztidBitch]

So many celebrities are suddenly dropping dead, the fuck is going on?

 

[AmericanNtionalist]

An entire life built around fitness, and he lives a whole 4 years longer than average.

👍🏻

He probably wouldn't have lived as long otherwise. And his time spent being the way he was was probably much more enoyable.
RIP to this great man. He has positively touched a lot of lives.

 

[Mr. Brady]

Richard was truly a caring person, he spent countless hours doing charity work and traveling to meet people who really needed help. He wasn't in it for the fame. There are videos of him recorded by family members of people who reached out to him and he would just show up when they were bedridden and ready to give up. He was a very flamboyant person, and it almost became an act like Pee Wee Herman that he needed to keep up when the cameras were rolling.. Reason that I know this, is that I knew a guy that was 800lbs that had a visit from him. ( Died at age 25) He talks completely normal and is not the flaming gay we see on TV when he is in his "Intervention" mode. I am not disputing he was gay, but what he did behind closed doors did not affect ME or take away the fact that we lost a very special man.

 

[bobdog377]

He was an excellent jet ski though

 

[DaisyPug]

I am not disputing he was gay, but what he did behind closed doors did not affect ME or take away the fact that we lost a very special man.

That argument was given in the 80s when the innocent queers tried to say, "we don't bother you or effect you, we just want to fuck each other in the ass behind closed doors."

People warned us then. Don't trust em. They are sick fucks and they will warp your children and they have an agenda and they
will not be happy until you absolutely take THEIR point of view and if you don't, then you will become the outcast. Well, our kids are now fucked up and so is society. Amazing how much damage a Nigger, a Jew, and a Queer does to planet earth. It's really remarkable.

 

[cacarara74874]

Also James Fixx the man who popularized jogging in America died at 52 while Jack LaLanne lived to 96. This is proof that building muscle (Im not talking about becoming a roided meathead like piana, lindner, zyzz and soon sulek) is healthier than doing aerobics and marathon running.

 

[woome1080]

A pic of him dead would’ve been appropriate for this site!

 

[DrGoodEvil]

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God you must have a dark pit in your soul, you must hate yourself so much to say that about such a sweet and kind man that spent his life trying to help people in his way. Seek help Sabu, for real.


That’s because genetics beats fitness 10 times out of 10


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RIP Richard. Here is a video of him running out of an interview crying because of something the interview said:


He was a sweetheart!

Dude, you are THE BIGGEST....LAMEST.....FAGGOT.....I HAVE EVR HAD THE DISPLEASURE OF EXPERIENCING. Nothing you say will ever...EVER make a sound again. You...are finished...here. (turning my back)🤣🖕

 

[Christopher Hitchens]

So many celebrities are suddenly dropping dead, the fuck is going on?

Celebrities are always dropping dead because humans always are

Dude, you are THE BIGGEST....LAMEST.....FAGGOT.....I HAVE EVR HAD THE DISPLEASURE OF EXPERIENCING. Nothing you say will ever...EVER make a sound again. You...are finished...here. (turning my back)🤣🖕

Oh no, you mean I won’t see your idiotic posts anymore. A real tragedy…

 

[Amara]

I always thought he was gay. If he wasn’t then my bad lol.

 

[CycloneRage]

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God you must have a dark pit in your soul, you must hate yourself so much to say that about such a sweet and kind man that spent his life trying to help people in his way. Seek help Sabu, for real.


That’s because genetics beats fitness 10 times out of 10


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RIP Richard. Here is a video of him running out of an interview crying because of something the interview said:


He was a sweetheart!

Howard Stern.. Not surprised.

 

[Sue69]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Simmons, television’s hyperactive court jester of physical fitness who built a mini-empire in his trademark tank tops and short shorts by urging the overweight to exercise and eat better, died Saturday. He turned 76 on Friday.

Los Angeles police and fire departments say they responded to a Los Angeles house where a man was declared dead from natural causes. Neither provided a name, but The Associated Press matched the address and age to Simmons through public records.

TMZ was first to report his death, which has also been reported by other outlets citing unnamed Simmons representatives.

Simmons, who had revealed a skin diagnosis in March 2024, had lately dropped out of sight, sparking speculating about his health and well-being.

Simmons was a former 268-pound teen who shared his hard-won weight-loss tips as host of the Emmy-winning daytime “Richard Simmons Show,” author of best-selling books and the diet plan Deal-A-Meal, as well as opening exercise studios and starring in millions of exercise videos, including the successful “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” line.

“My food plan and diet are just two words — common sense. With a dash of good humor,” he told The Associated Press in 1982. “I want to help people and make the world a healthier, happy place.”

Simmons embraced mass communication to get his message out, even as he eventually became the butt of jokes for his outfits and flamboyant flair. He was a guest on TV shows led by Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas and Phil Donahue. But David Letterman would prank him and Howard Stern would tease him until he cried. He was mocked in Neil Simon’s “The Goodbye Girl” on Broadway in 1993, and Eddie Murphy put on white makeup and dressed like him in “The Nutty Professor,” screaming “I’m a pony!”

Asked if he thought he could motivate people by being silly, Simmons answered, “I think there’s a time to be serious and a time to be silly. It’s knowing when to do it. I try to have a nice combination. Being silly cures depression. It catches people off guard and makes them think. But in between that silliness is a lot of seriousness that makes sense. It’s a different kind of training.”

Simmons’ daytime show was seen on 200 stations in America, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Japan and South America. His first book, “Never Say Diet,” was a smash best seller.

He was known to counsel the severely obese, including Rosalie Bradford, who held records for being the world’s heaviest woman, and Michael Hebranko, who credited Simmons for helping him lose 700 pounds. Simmons put real people — chubby, balding or non-telegenic — in his exercise videos to make the fitness goals seem reachable.

Throughout his career, Simmons was a reliable critic of fad diets, always emphasizing healthy eating and exercise plans. “There’ll always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador,” he told the AP in 2005 as the Atkins diet craze swept the country. “If you watch your portions and you have a good attitude and you work out every day you’ll live longer, feel better and look terrific.”

Simmons was a native of New Orleans, a chubby boy named Milton by his parents. (He renamed himself “Richard” around the age of 10 to improve his self-image). He would tell people he ate to excess because he believed his parents liked his older brother more. He was teased by schoolmates and ballooned to almost 200 pounds.

Simmons told the AP his mother watched exercise guru Jack LaLanne’s TV show religiously when he was growing up, but he wasn’t crazy about the fitness fanatic. “I hated him,” Simmons said. “I wasn’t ready for his message because he was fit and he was healthy and he had such a positive attitude, and I was none of those things.”

Simmons went to Italy as a foreign exchange student and ended up doing peanut butter commercials and bacchanalian eating scenes for director Federico Fellini in his film “Fellini Satyricon.” He told the AP: “I was fat, had curly hair. The Italians thought I was hysterical. I was the life of the party.”

His life changed after getting an anonymous letter. “One dark, rainy day I went to my car and found a note. It said, ‘Dear Richard, you’re very funny, but fat people die young. Please don’t die.” He was so stunned that he went on the starvation diet that left him thin but very ill.

After the crash diet he gained back 65 pounds. Eventually, he was able to devise a sensible plan to take off the pounds and keep them off. “I went into the business because I couldn’t find anything I liked,” he said.

When Simmons hadn’t been seen in public for several years, some news outlets speculated that he was being held hostage in his own house. In telephone interviews with “Entertainment Tonight” and the “Today” show, Simmons refuted the claims and told his fans he was enjoying the time by himself. Filmmaker-writer Dan Taberski, one of his regular students, launched a podcast in 2017 called “Missing Richard Simmons.”

In 2022, Simmons broke his six-year silence, with his spokesperson telling The New York Post that the beloved fitness icon was “living the life he has chosen.”
Richard Simmons, a fitness guru who mixed laughs and sweat, dies at 76
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He lived to 76! What more could he want?

 

[Sauerkraut]

Oh from last year… i thought the faggot died again.