Pauly Shore has paid tribute to Richard Simmons, the energetic, frizzy-haired TV personality and fitness coach, who died Saturday at age 76.
Shore, the comedian and actor who is starring in an unauthorized biopic about the late fitness legend, took to Instagram to write, “I just got word like everyone else that the beautiful Richard Simmons has passed. I hope you’re at peace and twinkling up in the heavens. Please give my mother Mitzi and my father Sammy a big hug and a kiss for me.”
He continued, “You’re one of a kind, Richard. An amazing life. An amazing story. They broke the dolphin shorts when they made you. Rest in peace, my friend. Rest in peace.”
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News of a Richard Simmons biopic starring Shore broke in January of this year; the feature is still in the works from The Wolper Organization,…