Gene Simmons pictured in New York earlier this month. Photograph: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images
Simmons was appearing on a pair of shows on the conservative news network – Fox and Friends, and Mornings With Maria – to promote his new book, On Power. According to a Fox News source speaking to the Daily Beast, Simmons barged in on a staff meeting, unbuttoned his shirt and exposed his torso, shouting: “Hey chicks, sue me!”
He also told jokes about Michael Jackson and paedophilia, and made mocking remarks about the intelligence of staffers. His behaviour has now seen him banned from the building and from further Fox News shows. He has not commented on the claims.
Simmons had previously condemned Harvey Weinstein’s harassment, saying: “Men are jackasses. From the time we’re young we have testosterone. I’m not validating it or defending it.” In another interview earlier in the week, he had said: “I want all the jackasses to go to jail for being improper.”
He recently caused more controversy by claiming women had to choose between a family and a career: “Get over your biological urges … It’s natural to want to have kids, but, sorry, you can’t have it both ways. You have to commit to either career or family. It’s very difficult to have both.”
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He doesnt need Fox but he shouldnt be rude. If his sole purpose was to gain attention to his new book, he got it. Maybe its time for him to back to what made him famous, even at what 65.
Ideologically, Gene the Tongue Man skews a lot closer to FOX group think than to typical rock Cadillac socialism. Right or left, however, a jerk is a jerk.
Oh well, his children by Canadian Shannon Tweed appear to have turned out alright. I recall they’ve done some charitable up here in the Great White North.