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He disappeared for 1,000 days, then wild SEX CHANGE claims cost him everything... so how will flamboyant fitness-guru Richard Simmons cope if a cruel new unauthorized biopic causes him fresh humiliation?


This devoutly private man is being thrust back into the spotlight once again - and a longtime friend of Simmons exclusively tells DailyMail.com that Simmons fears fresh humiliation...

Clad in hot pants and bedazzled tank tops, Simmons was soon a common fixture on late-night television – and, more often than not, the object of good-natured ribbing, especially during his many appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman. Clad in hot pants and bedazzled tank tops, Simmons was soon a common fixture on late-night television - and, more often than not, the object of good-natured ribbing, especially during his many appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman (pictured). Shore - who, as was reported on Thursday, is currently being sued for assault and battery after he allegedly attacked a security guard - told People magazine in September last year that he'd been inspired to play Simmons after a viral meme showing side-by-side images of the two.

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