Less than 12 hours after news broke that Pauly Shore would play Richard Simmons in a biopic in development, Simmons surfaced on Facebook to distance himself from the project. He wrote: “Hi Everybody! 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. 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.”