By Wealthy McKay
(Reuters) -Health guru Richard Simmons has died at age 76, a number of media shops reported, together with ABC Information and TMZ.
The stories mentioned his housekeeper discovered him unresponsive on Saturday morning and Los Angeles police had been referred to as. TMZ reported that police had been treating it as a pure demise.
Los Angeles police mentioned it couldn’t affirm Simmons’ demise.
Born Milton Teagle “Richard” Simmons, the flamboyant health teacher grew to become a family identify and pioneered gyms as secure locations for individuals who weren’t already in excellent form. He revealed in a sequence of social media posts this 12 months that he had been recognized with pores and skin most cancers.
Simmons, who grew up within the French quarter of New Orleans earlier than settling in California, weighed 268 kilos (121.56 kg) when he graduated from highschool, his web site mentioned.
His personal story of fighting weight reduction, the place he tried every part from fad diets to laxatives earlier than selecting train and higher life-style selections, impressed thousands and thousands to do the identical.
