Pauly Shore is questioning whether remarks attributed to Richard Simmons about not wanting a biopic were written by the fitness guru.
Shore, who plans to star in and executive produce a biopic about Simmons, told “Entertainment Tonight” that social media posts allegedly made by Simmons criticizing Shore’s involvement could have been fake. “I know he wanted me to do it,” Shore said about the biopic. “I don’t even know if that was him tweeting the whole time. I don’t know who that was.”
In response, Simmons’ staff refuted Shore’s claims on social media. They posted on Simmons’s official X account, “Pauly Shore has recently made comments to Entertainment Tonight concerning his attempts to proceed with an unauthorized movie about Richard. You’ve seen here on Richard’s account what he had to say about the biopic.”
Simmons’s brother, Lenny, also weighed in, asserting, “Dicky absolutely wrote his own posts. He worked on them a week in advance, going over and over them to get the right message. He would often read them to Cathy and me beforehand. What he has NOT done is text, email, or call Pauly with anything; not even to wish him ‘Good Luck,’ as Pauly has stated many times.”
Shore was set to play Simmons in a film titled “The Court Jester,” but Simmons had expressed disapproval of the portrayal. “You may have heard they may be doing a movie about me with Pauly Shore. I have never given my permission for this movie. So don’t believe everything you read,” Simmons wrote. “I no longer have a manager, and I no longer have a publicist. I just try to live a quiet life and be peaceful. Thank you for all your love and support.”
