Gene Simmons Pitches Shannon Tweed For ‘Dancing With The Stars’
Hollywood.tv caught up with Gene Simmons on Tuesday night (March 10) while he was celebrating Shannon Tweed’s 52nd birthday. Asked about the new season of ‘Dancing with the Stars’, Simmons suggested his girlfriend would be a great choice to be on the ABC hit. “She’d make all those other girls look like skanks,” the KISS star said. Watch video below.
On TV: Augustana, Gene Simmons, Journey
Rock acts on television this week include:
Augustana, who perform on ‘Live with Regis and Kelly’ on Monday.
Journey, who perform on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ on Wednesday.
Gene Simmons of KISS, who visits ‘Rachael Ray’ on Wednesday.
On TV: Shiny Toy Guns, Gene Simmons, Hellogoodbye
Rock acts on television this week include:
Shiny Toy Guns, who perform on ‘Last Call with Carson Daly’ on Monday.
Cobra Starship, who perform on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on Tuesday and visit ‘Total Request Live’ on Wednesday.
Gene Simmons of KISS, who visits ‘Rachael Ray’ on Tuesday.
Hellogoodbye, who perform on ‘Last Call’ on Wednesday.
British Sea Power, who perform on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ on Wednesday.
Gene Simmons Discusses First Job & The Fortune Of Doing What He Loves
Kiss mastermind Gene Simmons offered some straight answers to Artisan News Service in regards to his humility and money issues in light of starring in NBC’s ‘The Apprentice’. “The first job I had was cleaning fat off of a butcher’s block. I had to take this thing that looked like a mop and get the fat off. Then of course I’d have to go down to the basement, which was rat infested and bring up sides of beef. It was a pretty rotten job, but you know what, at the end of the week I really appreciated the money. That money, I earned, and I felt proud. It wasn’t a craft, it wasn’t something I had to learn, but I had pride in the labor, and the work I had done. So I appreciated the money.”
Simmons added that he understands he’s lucky to have a job he loves to do. “This notion that you have to have passion and you have to love what you’re doing is the biggest load of crap I’ve ever heard,” Simmons said. “Most of the people on the planet don’t have that advantage. They have to go to work at jobs they hate, they’d be lucky to have a job. The rest of us who happened to do what we love doing, that’s a privilege and a blessing. But the notion you have to love what you’re doing is nonsense. Just work and get paid, that’s enough of a value.” Watch the interview at YouTube.
Gene Simmons Discusses ‘The Apprentice: Celebrity Edition’
KISS bassist and singer Gene Simmons is taking his business savvy to the set of Donald Trump’s NBC show ‘The Apprentice: Celebrity Edition’. He spoke with Artisan News Service about the competition. “Anybody on this team can actually rise up and be the last man standing, of course I don’t intend for that to happen,” he said. “But in order for that not to happen and in order for the last man to be standing be Gene Simmons, I need to keep my guard up, from the professionals to the amateurs, and we have some amateurs on the show, and I mean that in the very nicest way.” Watch the segment at YouTube.
Gene Simmons Visits ‘MuchOnDemand’
Gene Simmons dropped by ‘MuchOnDemand’ in Toronto, Ontario on November 23rd with some pretty friends. The KISS member turned reality star chatted with VJ Leah Miller about his family life and he gave out some dating tips. Watch the interview below the fold.
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Gene Simmons: Labels Should Have Been Ruthless With Illegal Downloaders
During a Q&A with Billboard magazine, KISS star Gene Simmons sounded off on illegal downloading after being asked if fans can expect a new album from the makeup wearing rockers. “The record industry is in such a mess,” Simmons moaned. “I called for what it was when college kids first started download music for free — that they were crooks. I told every record label I spoke with that they just lit the fuse to their own bomb that was going to explode from under them and put them on the street. There is nothing in me that wants to go in there and do new music. How are you going to deliver it? How are you going to get paid for it if people can just get it for free? I will be putting out a Gene Simmons box set called ‘Monster’ – a collection of 150 unreleased songs. KISS will have another box set of unreleased music in the next year. The record industry doesn’t have a fu**ing clue how to make money. It’s only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there’s no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid’s face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work. How can you pick on them? They’ve got freckles. That’s a crook. He may as well be wearing a bandit’s mask.” Read more.
50 Years Of GQ Magazine
KISS star Gene Simmons attended the 50 Years of GQ Magazine celebration held at Cedar Lake in New York City on Tuesday (September 18). Check out pictures from Photoshot, FilmMagic, and GettyImages.
Gene Simmons: I Am Not Married
KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons has posted the following message on his web site:
“I AM NOT MARRIED!!!
“Folks. I have been deluged with new emails saying some very nice things. Thank you. But, seriously girls, I AM NOT MARRIED!!! I HAVE NEVER BEEN MARIED. I HAVE NO INTENTIONS OF EVERY GETTING MARRIED.
“It shocks me that women keep saying ‘your wife’… and can’t get it through their heads there IS NO wife. Never has been. Never will be.
“Women are finally FREE. You live in the 21st Century. You DON’T HAVE TO BE MARRIED, if you don’t want to.
“So ladies, I say this again, I AM NOT MARRIED.”
Gene’s Top Ten Simmons-isms
KISS star Gene Simmons offered AOL’s Spinner his top ten Simmons-isms, including his thoughts on the crisis in the Middle East. “I want those people stopped now,” Simmons said. “I want regime change and I want regime change all over the world, even if it means breaking international law.” As for why it doesn’t make sense for Jews to be pacifists, Simmons offered, “You can take a humanistic point of view: You don’t have the right to take a human life. That’s fine, but then you can’t complain when your whole family is wiped out at Auschwitz. And my family almost was. And for Jews, especially in America, to be pacifists is astonishing.” Read more.
