Fitness guru Richard Simmons has died at age 76.
FILE - Richard Simmons speaks to the audience before the start of a summer salad fashion show at Grand Central Terminal in New York on June 2, 2006. Simmons, a fitness guru who urged the overweight to exercise and eat better, died Saturday, July 13, 2024, at the age of 76. – Richard Simmons , television's hyperactive court jester of physical fitness who built a mini-empire in his trademark tank tops and short shorts by urging the overweight to exercise and eat better, died Saturday.
Simmons was a former 268-pound teen who shared his hard-won weight-loss tips as host of the Emmy-winning daytime"Richard Simmons Show," author of best-selling books and the diet plan Deal-A-Meal, as well as opening exercise studios and starring in millions of exercise videos, including the successful “Sweatin' to the Oldies” line.
Asked if he thought he could motivate people by being silly, Simmons answered,"I think there's a time to be serious and a time to be silly. It's knowing when to do it. I try to have a nice combination. Being silly cures depression. It catches people off guard and makes them think. But in between that silliness is a lot of seriousness that makes sense. It's a different kind of training.
Throughout his career, Simmons was a reliable critic of fad diets, always emphasizing healthy eating and exercise plans."There'll always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador," he told the AP in 2005 as the Atkins diet craze swept the country."If you watch your portions and you have a good attitude and you work out every day you'll live longer, feel better and look terrific.
Simmons went to Italy as a foreign exchange student and ended up doing peanut butter commercials and bacchanalian eating scenes for director Federico Fellini in his film"Fellini Satyricon." He told the AP:"I was fat, had curly hair. The Italians thought I was hysterical. I was the life of the party."
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