Richard Simmons’ staff hit back at comedian Pauly Shore’s comments about late fitness guru

Simmons died at his home in Hollywood on July 13.

Shore, who is set to star and executive produce a biopic about the late fitness legend, told “Entertainment Tonight” that pre-death social media posts from the reclusive TV guru that were 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.

“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 the late star’s official X account.

His staff continued, writing that Simmons’ 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.”