Richard Simmons breaks long silence after health scare: 'Hope to see you all soon'

NBC's The Today Show ^ | April 19, 2017 | Gina Vivinetto

[2ndDivisionVet]

Wasn't there a rumor that he'd gone Bruce Jenner?

[Enchante]

I thought he was a tranny a long time ago.

[gaijin]

Does he have any hair left..?

I remember seeing lots of BROWN PAINT atop his head some years ago.

He probably painted it entirely brown, by now..?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Problem discovered...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Jt_g10Jug

[gaijin]

PAINT

[ColdOne]

I thought he was gay decades ago.

[Dagnabitt]

His persona is basically that of a clown, so there’s not much to lose by wearing a ridiculous wig.

He should go full Phil Spectre / Liberace.

[Gay State Conservative]

Having worked in a major hospital for decades I can guarantee that he wasn't hospitalized for "severe indigestion".Cancer? Perhaps.AIDS? Perhaps.

[Vinnie]

Impacted gerbil.

[Seruzawa]

If you ate that horrible health dood all the time you’d get severe indigestion too. That s*** will kill you.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Don’t know don’t care.

Met him on a flight years ago and he was one of the nicest most genuine celebrities I have ever met.

He has made so many positive changes in people who need someone in their life who genuinely cares.

He is a good man.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Never said he wasn’t, just asking about a rumor that was floating around in the press.

[Defiant]

It was quite a drama. Hope he’s better.

http://interactive.nydailynews.com/2016/03/richard-simmons-disappeared-twisted-mystery/

[Dalberg-Acton]

My Mom used to have one of his exercise records but it wouldn’t work on her record player. Yep, it skipped too much.

[john drake]

That picture looks like he could suck a golf ball through a garden hose....Just sayin’.

[elcid1970]

Heh, heh!

;^)

[Flavious_Maximus]

Agree. He could be the biggest flaming homo out there but at least he keeps his sexuality private,

He comes across to me as a genuine humanitarian, who really does care about the unfortunate. And besides, he enjoys laughter, sometimes about himself. That makes him a rare commodity in Hollywood.

[Rastus]

Simmons, who was hospitalized on Monday for "severe indigestion,"

Must have been a bad wiener.

[Mount Athos]

He made big changes in some peoples lives.
He reached people who had given up on themselves, told them not to give up.
That’s pretty good

[Ueriah]

When I was a teenager, we would make jokes about Richard Simmons.

Looking back at it, he was really just some really effeminate gay dude who seemed to genuinely try to help people with a weight problem.

Richard Simmons is all right in my book. He seems to have spent a lot of his life trying to help other people.