LAPD On Richard Simmons After Wellness Check: 'He Was Fine'
LatestDepending on whom you believe, flamboyant fitness guru and pop culture icon Richard Simmons is being held hostage by his maid, or he has consciously retreated from public life for some privacy, please. Mass speculation that something might be up with Simmons began in November 2014 when TMZ noted that Simmons hadn’t been seen in public for a year at that point, and pointed to possible depression over a knee replacement he was ordered by doctors to undergo or something “more serious…” Then last year the New York Daily News published thousands of words spelling out the hostage theory in a piece called “The Haunted Twilight of Richard Simmons,” in which a source suggested that Simmons was being tormented by black magic. The national obsession has a reached a fever pitch with the production of Dan Taberski’s Missing Richard Simmons podcast, which, as of this post’s publication, is No. 1 on iTunes’ Top Podcasts chart (additionally, three of its episodes are in the Top 5 of iTunes’ Top Episodes chart).