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 and executive produce a biopic about Simmons, told “Entertainment Tonight” that pre-death social media posts from Simmons critical of Shore taking on the role could have been fake.
“I know he wanted me to do it,” he said of the biopic. “I don’t even know if that was him tweeting the whole time. I don’t know who that was,” Shore told ET.
But Simmons’ staff hit back at the comments on social media.
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“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,” his staff wrote on Simmons’s official X account.
They wrote that Simmons’s brother, Lenny, said “Dicky absolutely wrote his own posts. He worked on them a week in advance, going over and over them to get the right message,” while adding that his brother “would often read them to Cathy and I beforehand. What he has NOT done was to 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 called The Court Jester, but Simmons was critical 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.”
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