Richard Simmons’ Brother Tells Followers ‘Do not Be Unhappy’ After Health Guru’s Passing: ‘Rejoice His Life!’

On Sunday morning, Simmons’ brother, Lenny, shared a touching assertion on the late TV persona’s X account.

“Hiya Everybody,” the message started. “I do not need folks to be unhappy about my brother. I need them to recollect him for the real pleasure and love he dropped at folks’s lives. He actually cared about folks. He referred to as, wrote, and emailed 1000’s of individuals all through his profession to supply assist.”

“So do not be unhappy. Rejoice his life!” Lenny added. “He was very enthusiastic about all the upcoming ventures he was engaged on. We’re in shock. Please respect the household at this tough time.”

On Saturday, TMZ reported that Simmons had handed away on the age of 76.

Sources instructed the outlet that regulation enforcement responded after receiving a name from Simmons’ housekeeper Saturday morning. He was pronounced useless on the scene. TMZ mentioned authorities don’t suspect foul play.

The information of Simmons’ dying got here simply sooner or later after he celebrated his 76th birthday. The TV persona expressed his gratitude after followers despatched him well-wishes on his birthday.

“Thanks…I by no means received so many messages  about my birthday in my life!” he wrote on Friday afternoon. “I’m sitting right here writing  emails. Have a most stunning remainder of your Friday.  Love, Richard.”

Following the unhappy information of his passing, followers and celebrities took to social media to pay tribute and honor Simmons.

Fellow health icon and actress Jane Fonda shared a heartfelt tribute on Instagram, remembering Simmons for his generosity and bringing happiness to others.

“Richard Simmons at all times wished folks to really feel good and be blissful. He would exit of his option to make folks blissful. I typically puzzled if perhaps no one had made him blissful when he was slightly boy,” she started in her prolonged submit, which featured a throwback photograph of herself and Simmons collectively.

“He was beneficiant. He gave of himself, of his time, to make folks blissful. He as soon as popped out of an enormous cake on the launch of some Jane Fonda WORKOUT occasion. That was beneficiant,” she continued. “He came upon I used to be in a retailer the place he was so he shortly purchased some small trinket and ran throughout the shop, shouting on the high of his lungs in that unmistakable voice, to let me know he was coming. That was beneficiant.”

Fonda mentioned she final noticed Simmons after they went out to lunch with the late star and his boyfriend. “The connection was new and he was proud. I by no means noticed or heard from him once more and, like many 1000’s of others, I’ve mourned his absence from my life,” she wrote.

“I hope he felt the love so many have been sending him these final years. I hope it made him blissful,” she concluded. “I learn he died peacefully in his sleep in his very white house. Relaxation in Peace, Pricey Richard.”

Pauly Shore — who is about to play Simmons in a biopic — reacted to the information of Simmons’ passing on Instagram, writing, “I simply received phrase like everybody else that the gorgeous Richard Simmons has handed. I hope you’re at peace and twinkling up within the heavens. Please give my mom Mitzi and my father Sammy an enormous hug and a kiss for me. You’re one in all a form, Richard. A tremendous life. A tremendous story. They broke the dolphin shorts after they made you. Relaxation in peace, my pal. Relaxation in peace.”

Movie and TV critic, Richard Roeper, posted a heartfelt tribute on X, previously Twitter.

“Richard Simmons preached train, weight loss plan and most of all kindness. He positively impacted 1000’s and 1000’s of lives,” he wrote. “I am one of many lots of and lots of of TV individuals who basked in his vitality and readily accepted these loopy hugs. Relaxation effectively.”

In the meantime, the unhappy information of Simmons’ dying got here simply hours after one other 80s icon handed away. On Saturday, it was reported that famend intercourse therapist Ruth Westheimer — often known as “Dr. Ruth” — died at 96.

The speak present host and intercourse knowledgeable handed away at her house in New York Metropolis on Friday night time, her publicist instructed TMZ. Her reason behind dying was not shared.

Like Simmons, Hollywood and past mourned Dr. Ruth’s dying on social media.

Adam Sander wrote, “At all times cherished Dr. Ruth. Going to overlook her lots. She at all times made us smile. Sending like to her household and thanks for every little thing.”

“She was trustworthy, she was humorous and she or he was good,” actress Marlee Matlin mentioned of Dr. Ruth. “Better of all she was the nicest. Might her reminiscence be a blessing to her household and all who had the pleasure of understanding her. RIP Dr. Ruth Westheimer.”

Many followers — who grew up with each Dr. Ruth and Simmons within the 80s and 90s — expressed their disappointment that the world misplaced each icons inside 24 hours.

“Richard Simmons and Dr Ruth on the identical day makes it a tough one on us Gen X’ers. 2 of our popular culture icons as youngsters,” a fan wrote, whereas one other mentioned, “Unhappy day for my younger self. RIP Richard Simmons and Dr. Ruth.”

Producer Patrick Scott Patterson wrote, “Wow. Dr. Ruth and Richard Simmons each handed away right now. I am arduous pressed to consider two individuals who received extra air time serving to folks within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties than these two icons. Actually and finish of an period sort day. Ideas with their household and mates right now.”

See extra tributes for Simmons and Dr. Ruth within the posts, under.