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Bob Newhart, James Earl Jones, Peter Marshall, Shannen Doherty, and more luminaries were honored during the heartfelt In Memoriam segment led by Jelly Roll at Sunday’s Emmy Awards. Jimmy Kimmel then hit the stage to crack a few jokes in honor of Newhart’s deadpan humor. The country star started his …

“Complications from recent falls and heart disease” led to fitness guru Richard Simmons’ accidental death, according to his brother, Lenny. Drugs were not a factor. A spokesperson for the Simmons family, Tom Estey, gave a fuller picture in a statement to People on Wednesday. “This morning, Richard Simmons‘ brother Lenny …

Richard Simmons’ staff shared his final “planned” message to fans on social media a week after the fitness guru’s death at the age of 76. While Simmons spent his last years largely out of the public eye, he remained active on social media, often sharing personal news and words of …

Just two days before his death, Richard Simmons reflected on loss in his final interview. On Monday, People published an interview with the late fitness guru who died of apparent natural causes in Los Angeles on July 13. During the interview, Simmons revealed that he had been working on turning …

Over the past few years, with the rise of the social-media marketing ecosystem, the word “authenticity” has been increasingly integrated into the pop culture consciousness. As used by brands in pitch meetings and slide decks, it’s an ineffable commodity possessed by a rarified few in the creator space who seem …

Jane Fonda paid tribute to her fellow fitness guru Richard Simmons Sunday following the death of the beloved TV icon. “Richard Simmons always wanted people to feel good and be happy. He would go out of his way to make people happy. I often wondered if maybe nobody had made …

Richard Simmons, the energetic fitness guru who exuded positivity, has died according to his representative, ABC News reports. He was 76. Simmons had just celebrated his birthday on Friday and had posted a thread about it on X, formerly Twitter. According to TMZ who first reported the news, the Los …

Richard Simmons issued a rare statement Wednesday disavowing a planned biopic about the former fitness guru starring Pauly Shore. In a message posted to his official Facebook account, Simmons said of the apparently unauthorized biopic, “You may have heard they may be doing a movie about me with Pauly Shore. …