You're not wrong but he seemed to enjoy it up to that point, it is odd to go from multiple talk show appearances a year and literally calling your fans on the phone to motivate them to shutting yourself up in your mansion and only interacting with your dogs and your housekeeper.
He definitely trooned. I know I've seen an interview where he was described as in the process of transforming
You're misremembering this: >In May 2017, he sued the National Enquirer, Radar Online, and American Media, Inc. for libel and false claims that he was undergoing gender reassignment. In September 2017, Simmons lost the lawsuit, and was ordered to pay the defendants' attorney's fees. The judge ruled, "because courts have long held that a misidentification of certain immutable characteristics do not naturally tend to injure one's reputation, even if there is sizeable portion of the population who hold prejudices against those characteristics, misidentification of a person as transgender is not actionable defamation absent special damages."
i.e. Judge said "saying someone is a troony is not defamatory lmao, get rekt", which I imagine is a dimension-shattering blow to your morale.
So basically Richard Simmons is the embodiment of "frick this gay world".
Literally how is it not defamatory for those shitty tabloids to constantly spew outright lies that make you look bad? I genuinely don't understand. If you make money by misleading the public and telling lies about people, you should be punished. Why was he ruled against? What's the logic here?
He got old and didn't want to show his aging looks. Sunshine and positivity was his brand. Looking depressing is not useful for anyone. He could be depressed too.
gays are extremely vain and he probably struggled with being old and not looking the same anymore
his episode he did on whose line is it anyway? was absolute gold
It's not a theory: Richard Simmons was heavily abused as a child and aerobics was his outlet. Several people over dozens of years have tried to make him to "come out of the closet" thinking that he's a full-fledged homosexual. Conversely, while he's effeminate and affected, he has rejected those accusations over and over and over, and takes great offense at the implication, as clearly shown in . As the world became "more gay" he drew inward more and more, unable to accept that people just wallow in the degneracy with no end in sight, and he didn't want to be part of that world, so he retired.
t. my uncle was his accountant until 2018 when he was let go (on good terms) because Simmons had it all under control himself
Interesting. I know that he's never publicly discussed being in a relationship of any kind, and I've read his autobiography and he never once mentions a sexual interest of any kind, male or female. He never hints at any abuse in his book (other than perhaps emotional, apparently his parent's didn't believe that he was asthmatic as it was thought to be a psychosomatic illness at the time). Who abused him? Priest? I know he was involved in the church at some point.
According to my uncle he was molested by more than one of his parents' "friends" (when he was telling me about he made a point that Simmons kept using finger quotation marks) and abused by a dancer friend of his mother who apparently was close enough that her mother referred to her as "his aunt" (as in, "come say hello to your aunt"). He said he didn't elaborate and what happened to him, but he used both "molested" and "abused" as two different things so I assume that woman sucked his wiener or something. >never once mentions a sexual interest of any kind
My uncle thinks he's just completely asexual.
Yeah. It adds up, I've heard that often people who were molested as kids, especially repeatedly, often have one or two outcomes as an adult: either they become massively promiscuous or they essentially become asexual.
Anyways hopefully he's happy doing what he's doing now, he seemed like a genuinely good person.
I think he tries his best, but he's a very sensitive person, and things like
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You're misremembering this: >In May 2017, he sued the National Enquirer, Radar Online, and American Media, Inc. for libel and false claims that he was undergoing gender reassignment. In September 2017, Simmons lost the lawsuit, and was ordered to pay the defendants' attorney's fees. The judge ruled, "because courts have long held that a misidentification of certain immutable characteristics do not naturally tend to injure one's reputation, even if there is sizeable portion of the population who hold prejudices against those characteristics, misidentification of a person as transgender is not actionable defamation absent special damages."
i.e. Judge said "saying someone is a troony is not defamatory lmao, get rekt", which I imagine is a dimension-shattering blow to your morale.
So basically Richard Simmons is the embodiment of "frick this gay world".
were probably very impactful to his psyche. My uncle said he was the kind of person that would feel down whenever he read a depressing article on the paper, so I imagine the pandemic and current wars going on probably had a big toll on him, and current troony and fatty culture don't help either. Last I talked to him about Simmons in 2022 he told me a common friend said he saw him and seemed a little distraught and that he complained that his sister in law was pestering him to get checked for Alzheimer's.
My aunt, my uncle's sister, has Alzheimer's, so he thinks Simmons' sister in law could be right because he did notice him being forgetful a lot since 2016, years earlier. While he's old, he has enough money to afford the best medicine can offer, and 24/7 caretaker, but I guess it'd be ironic if someone like him spends his last years devoid of vigor.
I liked his YouTube channel. It's how I started exercising and then started going to the gym. It felt like the industry finally passed him by and he didn't want to adapt to the streaming thing. The last video skits he posted on YouTube only got a few thousand views and a few hundred likes. That has to be disheartening to someone who sold millions of tapes. Of all things, his last video was a spoof of The Carrie Diaries and Anna Sophia Robb.
Massive props to the guy. He turned himself into a multi-multi-millionaire by ostensibly helping overweight people. AND he was utterly entertaining and hilarious doing it.
PLUS he never pushed the LGBT movement or shoved it in people’s faces.
He was active forever. I think in his case, he was getting older, realized that he couldn't keep up with everyone else, and just wanted to retire.
I have an uncle that went full recluse for most part once he retired. He barely pops up for anything and if we hear from him it's like once a year at most. He's doing well, but I think he just get tired. He did sales for like 40+ and probably got tired of fricking talking to people and wanted to enjoy his commission earnings in peace.
his only real fitness advice was to basically get up off your ass and stop feeling so bad about yourself. Its not bad advice, also him not looking great himself allowed others to relate more than to someone incredibly chiseled
He wasn't an expert bodybuilder or dietician or some shit he was just an approachable guy who was supposed to help make it so fatasses felt less self-conscious about exercising and could thus stop being fatasses.
People still see him at restaurants and some shops around Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. But he wears a disguise of sorts every time he goes out. He also tends to go to old school places where the clientele know not to take out their cell and start recording everything like idiots. I think he just wanted to retire.
My dad was obese and went to Cinemaphile for advice and they told him to do deadlifts and drink a ton of milk. He danced to Richard Simmons tapes and lost 200 pounds from that. Unironically Richard Simmons has done more for fitness than any roidmonkey on social media.
His videos were perfect for old people and obese people because he didn't look completely buff himself and he was very friendly. He also had different work out levels. The first level is so basic that only moribund people couldn't do it. If you couldn't get off your couch and do a level 1 Richard Simmons workout, you should probably see your doctor immediately. He was the best of the fitness gurus of the 20th century.
Richard Simmons was the butt of a lot of jokes, he was probably sick of it. Yeah he was a good sport all those years and honestly a pretty funny guy, but just had enough. Also, maybe just wanted to live a quiet life and frick male prostitutes
it was his housekeeper, and supposedly the LADP investigated and deemed it baseless.
Around 2012 being fat was beginning to be promoted as being beautiful. He couldn’t go against the new Hollywood agenda which was his entire brand so he had to bow out.
This might actually be part of it, I can see commiegays on Twitter labelling him fatphobic.
Did not need any more money and wanted a quiet life. Was probably sick of the jokes and gay innuendo too. > He got old and didn't want to show his aging looks.
This too.
Around 2012 being fat was beginning to be promoted as being beautiful. He couldn’t go against the new Hollywood agenda which was his entire brand so he had to bow out.
>greg, drew, most of the audience all doing that thing where you stomp and rock back and forth from laughing so hard
oh right, tv used to just make you happy, it wasnt always depression porn and messages and agendas.
i forgot.
I asked my mom why he was so famous and she said "i don't know but everyone was buying his tapes so i bought one too" and my dad would always joke on her saying "why are you watching this homosexual?"
Why would you want to stay in the public eye? The only incentive outside money is pure narcissism, and I'm pretty sure he made more than enough to retire and live a nice quiet life.
He got tired of getting dunked on. David Letterman used to frick with him all the time. I remember a Christmas episode where he took it a little too far.
Gayness of the anus is a progressive disease. It only gets worse.
He probably doesn't have any time left in the day between diaper changes and bowel rammings.
There was a guy on the Howard Stern Show claiming to be a male prostitute, saying he would regularly meet with Simmons in hotel rooms. After that he no longer spoke with Stern.
he had to go to the bathroom
Why wouldn't he? "Public life" probably really sucks at a certain point
You're not wrong but he seemed to enjoy it up to that point, it is odd to go from multiple talk show appearances a year and literally calling your fans on the phone to motivate them to shutting yourself up in your mansion and only interacting with your dogs and your housekeeper.
He either trooned out or he's being held captive by his handler.
This is a good theory.
>be me
>have friend that fell off the face of the earth
>4 years later full on troon
>everything has to be about your sissy pornography addiction
rent free
He definitely trooned. I know I've seen an interview where he was described as in the process of transforming
Gossip sites and shows have claimed a variety of things about him, always with zero proof.
You're misremembering this:
>In May 2017, he sued the National Enquirer, Radar Online, and American Media, Inc. for libel and false claims that he was undergoing gender reassignment. In September 2017, Simmons lost the lawsuit, and was ordered to pay the defendants' attorney's fees. The judge ruled, "because courts have long held that a misidentification of certain immutable characteristics do not naturally tend to injure one's reputation, even if there is sizeable portion of the population who hold prejudices against those characteristics, misidentification of a person as transgender is not actionable defamation absent special damages."
i.e. Judge said "saying someone is a troony is not defamatory lmao, get rekt", which I imagine is a dimension-shattering blow to your morale.
So basically Richard Simmons is the embodiment of "frick this gay world".
Literally how is it not defamatory for those shitty tabloids to constantly spew outright lies that make you look bad? I genuinely don't understand. If you make money by misleading the public and telling lies about people, you should be punished. Why was he ruled against? What's the logic here?
remember when he was a regular guest on howard stern then he got mad about something and never talked to howard again ? Its just what he does.
He probably settled down with a nice fella
He got old and didn't want to show his aging looks. Sunshine and positivity was his brand. Looking depressing is not useful for anyone. He could be depressed too.
gays are extremely vain and he probably struggled with being old and not looking the same anymore
his episode he did on whose line is it anyway? was absolute gold
Wasn't 2014 the year when everyone remotely funny mysteriously died or was publicly canceled? Maybe somebody warned him ahead of time
It's not a theory: Richard Simmons was heavily abused as a child and aerobics was his outlet. Several people over dozens of years have tried to make him to "come out of the closet" thinking that he's a full-fledged homosexual. Conversely, while he's effeminate and affected, he has rejected those accusations over and over and over, and takes great offense at the implication, as clearly shown in . As the world became "more gay" he drew inward more and more, unable to accept that people just wallow in the degneracy with no end in sight, and he didn't want to be part of that world, so he retired.
t. my uncle was his accountant until 2018 when he was let go (on good terms) because Simmons had it all under control himself
Interesting. I know that he's never publicly discussed being in a relationship of any kind, and I've read his autobiography and he never once mentions a sexual interest of any kind, male or female. He never hints at any abuse in his book (other than perhaps emotional, apparently his parent's didn't believe that he was asthmatic as it was thought to be a psychosomatic illness at the time). Who abused him? Priest? I know he was involved in the church at some point.
According to my uncle he was molested by more than one of his parents' "friends" (when he was telling me about he made a point that Simmons kept using finger quotation marks) and abused by a dancer friend of his mother who apparently was close enough that her mother referred to her as "his aunt" (as in, "come say hello to your aunt"). He said he didn't elaborate and what happened to him, but he used both "molested" and "abused" as two different things so I assume that woman sucked his wiener or something.
>never once mentions a sexual interest of any kind
My uncle thinks he's just completely asexual.
Yeah. It adds up, I've heard that often people who were molested as kids, especially repeatedly, often have one or two outcomes as an adult: either they become massively promiscuous or they essentially become asexual.
Anyways hopefully he's happy doing what he's doing now, he seemed like a genuinely good person.
I think he tries his best, but he's a very sensitive person, and things like
were probably very impactful to his psyche. My uncle said he was the kind of person that would feel down whenever he read a depressing article on the paper, so I imagine the pandemic and current wars going on probably had a big toll on him, and current troony and fatty culture don't help either. Last I talked to him about Simmons in 2022 he told me a common friend said he saw him and seemed a little distraught and that he complained that his sister in law was pestering him to get checked for Alzheimer's.
My aunt, my uncle's sister, has Alzheimer's, so he thinks Simmons' sister in law could be right because he did notice him being forgetful a lot since 2016, years earlier. While he's old, he has enough money to afford the best medicine can offer, and 24/7 caretaker, but I guess it'd be ironic if someone like him spends his last years devoid of vigor.
god this is so sad, a hopeful force talking to a degenerate butthole
hey, aren't you richard simmons' best friend: richard simmons?
pauly bros... not like this...
man that would have been a great movie
I liked his YouTube channel. It's how I started exercising and then started going to the gym. It felt like the industry finally passed him by and he didn't want to adapt to the streaming thing. The last video skits he posted on YouTube only got a few thousand views and a few hundred likes. That has to be disheartening to someone who sold millions of tapes. Of all things, his last video was a spoof of The Carrie Diaries and Anna Sophia Robb.
Probably just wanted to retire. He was active since the 70s.
Massive props to the guy. He turned himself into a multi-multi-millionaire by ostensibly helping overweight people. AND he was utterly entertaining and hilarious doing it.
PLUS he never pushed the LGBT movement or shoved it in people’s faces.
I have nothing but respect for the guy.
i like his old lady affinity aesthetic he has going on
Yeah as far as Hollywood goes he might be a “good guy”
But who knows what went on behind closed doors with sad vulnerable people
He was active forever. I think in his case, he was getting older, realized that he couldn't keep up with everyone else, and just wanted to retire.
I have an uncle that went full recluse for most part once he retired. He barely pops up for anything and if we hear from him it's like once a year at most. He's doing well, but I think he just get tired. He did sales for like 40+ and probably got tired of fricking talking to people and wanted to enjoy his commission earnings in peace.
Some health issues probably. Couldn't keep working and too conceited to go public with it, so he withdrew.
Why was anyone taking fitness advice from this melted candle?
his only real fitness advice was to basically get up off your ass and stop feeling so bad about yourself. Its not bad advice, also him not looking great himself allowed others to relate more than to someone incredibly chiseled
He's like a cheerleader, motivation coach for people to hit the gym/mat. Almost like a kid's show host for adults who feel down.
He wasn't an expert bodybuilder or dietician or some shit he was just an approachable guy who was supposed to help make it so fatasses felt less self-conscious about exercising and could thus stop being fatasses.
He had an injury and got fat. So he shaved his hair and grew a beard. He walks among us unnoticed to this day.
People still see him at restaurants and some shops around Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. But he wears a disguise of sorts every time he goes out. He also tends to go to old school places where the clientele know not to take out their cell and start recording everything like idiots. I think he just wanted to retire.
Richard is straight
his butthole is so loose he kept shitting himself
My dad was obese and went to Cinemaphile for advice and they told him to do deadlifts and drink a ton of milk. He danced to Richard Simmons tapes and lost 200 pounds from that. Unironically Richard Simmons has done more for fitness than any roidmonkey on social media.
His videos were perfect for old people and obese people because he didn't look completely buff himself and he was very friendly. He also had different work out levels. The first level is so basic that only moribund people couldn't do it. If you couldn't get off your couch and do a level 1 Richard Simmons workout, you should probably see your doctor immediately. He was the best of the fitness gurus of the 20th century.
he got fat and since his career is about helping fat people lose weight he didn't want to be seen in public being fat
So did Bill Watterson. I wouldn't want to be famous forever, especially when I'm in my 50's+
>My name is Cheryl, and I am your daughter.
>milky sauce
Richard Simmons was the butt of a lot of jokes, he was probably sick of it. Yeah he was a good sport all those years and honestly a pretty funny guy, but just had enough. Also, maybe just wanted to live a quiet life and frick male prostitutes
Am I remembering this shit wrong or was him being basically held captive by his manager or someone completely memoryholed?
it was his housekeeper, and supposedly the LADP investigated and deemed it baseless.
This might actually be part of it, I can see commiegays on Twitter labelling him fatphobic.
is he a quare?
Everybody thought he was gay.
Everybody thought he was a cokehead.
Richard Simmons is autistic and his special interest is fitness. Nothing more.
Did not need any more money and wanted a quiet life. Was probably sick of the jokes and gay innuendo too.
> He got old and didn't want to show his aging looks.
This too.
Around 2012 being fat was beginning to be promoted as being beautiful. He couldn’t go against the new Hollywood agenda which was his entire brand so he had to bow out.
>In 2014 he abruptly withdrew from public life. Any theories why?
He could smell the woke shite up wind and bailed from the industry. Smart move.
He produced the most kino moment on WLIIA
god that was kino
>this was peak comedy for white people
cope and seethe achmed i know humor is haram for your miserable group of people
>greg, drew, most of the audience all doing that thing where you stomp and rock back and forth from laughing so hard
oh right, tv used to just make you happy, it wasnt always depression porn and messages and agendas.
i forgot.
i know it might seem that way but here's 20 reasons why that's actually wrong
achieved what he considered "frick you" money
He did it as a public service because people find him soooo fricking annoying.
>In 2014 he abruptly withdrew from public life. Any theories why?
Catastrophic anal prolapse.
but the crust barrier saved his life
god bless him
I asked my mom why he was so famous and she said "i don't know but everyone was buying his tapes so i bought one too" and my dad would always joke on her saying "why are you watching this homosexual?"
Why would you want to stay in the public eye? The only incentive outside money is pure narcissism, and I'm pretty sure he made more than enough to retire and live a nice quiet life.
STOP SAYING IM GAY IM NOT GAY STOP SAYING IT
dunno but picrel is one of the oldest memes i can remember...must have originated early 2000s. internet history
Gamer gate got him
He got tired of getting dunked on. David Letterman used to frick with him all the time. I remember a Christmas episode where he took it a little too far.
Gayness of the anus is a progressive disease. It only gets worse.
He probably doesn't have any time left in the day between diaper changes and bowel rammings.
He had to help his brother Gene Simmons. He took over as stand-in in their concerts.
There was a guy on the Howard Stern Show claiming to be a male prostitute, saying he would regularly meet with Simmons in hotel rooms. After that he no longer spoke with Stern.
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