The Time Richard Simmons MELTED DOWN On Live TV & Billy Bush Saved the Day

God, do I love Richard. I was just thinking about Richard the other day, looking at photos of Harry. I shared Harry. There's me and Richard. God, Richard had a real thing for me. And I for Richard. I was looking around this old YouTube channel I used to have, and I found an interview in my old radio studio, me and Richard Simmons. Oh my God, did we have fun. And he always came to play. Access Hollywood Live, the daytime show I did, had Richard on as a guest all the time. Do we have that, Harry? Do we have that old interview? look in the file uh if we have the interview i remember there was a little moment we had him on Access Hollywood Live if we have you ready to go roll it in Richard Simmons playing a guest this is all this is my life i don't have a person in my life i don't have children i live alone with my two housekeepers and i work i get up at four o'clock in the morning 4 30 and i work because i believe i can beat this i believe that the more i go out there and become the Johnny Apple seed of health after almost four decades i believe that people can turn this around everyone can turn this around richard what kind of slob are you that you have two housekeepers is this you and your two housekeepers can you just pick up after yourself a little bit he's so mad anyway i um get him richard you can have as many housekeepers as you want he goes and it's just me and i just live alone with my two housekeepers and i just don't and i do my thing excuse me you live alone with two housekeepers. Richard and I used to go after each other all the time. There is an all-time story. I don't know if I've shared it with you, and sometimes I repeat, but if you have not heard it, it's pretty great. We had Richard Simmons on that very show. I don't think that was the episode. He came back a different time, but it was also the day we had Howie Mandel on the show. And Howie was in a particularly punchy mood, and he was going after Richard. He was being mean to Richard. And Richard's a fragile soul. But Howie was like, you're still wearing the dolphin shorts. You still wear those little tank tops. You got that little hair teased up like that. You're still you haven't evolved, he's saying. And I was like, I don't think we want Richard to evolve. Howie, what are you talking about? Richard got so upset. And we were in the first segment of the show and he got up off the couch and he said, I won't be here with him and he walked off the set and i said oh my god i thought we were going to continue having fun with Richard and Howie we had and Howie really upset him and Richard walked off and down the hallway out of the studio down the hallway and into the wardrobe room where the wardrobe gals were you know laying out everything and and richard when there was a back closet and he slid the door open to the closet and he went back in there with all the all the dresses and all the clothing, and there was a little bench in there, and he sat down in the wardrobe closet, and he closed the door, and he wouldn't come out. So we go into the commercial break, and I'm saying, what are we going to do? This is, you know, just continue the show with Howie, or do we try and resurrect? I say to Randy, the cameraman, and to the director, Stephanie Medina, I say, Stephanie, I need the camera in the hallway. Randy, can you run a cable down the hallway? Let's go into the wardrobe room where richard is and i'll take it back from commercial there okay randy grabs the cable and they have a you know a gaffer and he helps him get him down and we get into the into the wardrobe room the camera comes running in and i'm positioned outside behind me is the wardrobe closet door and we come back from commercial welcome back to Access Hollywood live if you're just joining us now uh well we've had a lot of drama uh it's been uh it's been quite a feisty morning. Howie Mandel, who's still sitting on set out there, has upset our other guest, Richard Simmons. And Richard is indignant and he will not. He is right behind me. Behind this door is Richard and he won't come out. He is in the closet and will not come out of the closet. the irony. And so I say, Richard, Richard, I want you to come out of this closet right now. You have people out there depend on you, right? There's people, they're struggling with their weight. Maybe they're struggling with loneliness. I don't know what it is, but something. And you, you're their spirit animal. You lift their spirits and you're a national treasure, Richard. I'm not coming out Richard do you realize we're on live television right now and I'm telling the audience is all dying for you to come out because they count on you to inspire them now I want you to come out of this closet right now I'm not doing it he's awful he's so mean I said listen we will make Howie I think Howie has an apology ready for you that's and you deserve it but I need you to come out no and then I said oh ---- this isn't going so well I gotta get So the door is like, the sliding door, he's locked it from inside. I put my lips right up against the, where the door meets the wall. I get in like this, and I go, Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy. And I let it sit. And then Richard goes, Sunshine on my shoulder makes me cry. I said, there's my guy, sunshine on my shoulder. and then together we're singing and the door slides open and he's looking at me like I can do this and we walk out together and Randy the cameraman is backing up down the hallway and bang he goes through the door like that the gaffers are opening it for him and we back all the way out to this set and we return and we sit down and I say Howie do you have something you'd like to say to Richard and Howie says Richard I'm terribly sorry I think I said something that was hurtful and you're a beautiful person and I regret it. And I learned something valuable today. And I said, Harry, now there we go. Richard, fine. And off we went. Now, how about that? Beautiful moment with Richard Simmons. God, do I miss that? Oh, what a sweetheart. Lindsey Clancy, some news there. We're getting ready for November 2nd, which is a Monday, the day before midterm mayhem. We're gonna get all the rulings on the outstanding motions for Lindsey but Judge Sullivan ruled on one of them yesterday. The defense motion, he denied Kevin Reddington's request for an evidentiary hearing on the holdout juror from the trial, remember that? So either Michael Desronville's juror questionnaire held up or he isn't interested in pursuing that any further. Both sides wanted rulings on a handful of motions. That's what they talked about on September 29th, including Big Red's motion asking the judge to find her not guilty, based mostly on the dereliction of duty by the holdout juror guy, before they want all the answers on these before the retrial date that Sully was trying to set. So the next date on the docket is November 2nd, that's a Monday, and then they'll find out if there's gonna be a retrial. But remember, Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz has not decided whether or not he's gonna retry Lindsey Clancy, or if he's gonna pursue lesser charges, which would allow for a bench trial. Kevin Reddington will obviously not choose a bench trial. You just had 11 to 1, so why wouldn't you? You would think your chances of a 12 and 0 would be pretty good after that. But what I don't understand is like, how do you find an impartial jury here, right? You would think that the district attorney might drop all of this. And Kevin Reddington has not said whether or not he's had lead discussions with Tim Cruz, but an impartial jury at this point in that area, in any area, in any town, forget that county. Everybody knows Lindsey Clancy. Everybody saw Clancy on 60 Minutes. That was big ratings. Anyway, what it all means, it's everything comes down to November 2nd. The motion to dismiss, plus, you know, the defense request to preserve the juror records, produce the juror questionnaire, make a limited inquiry into the juror. That's all, you know. But as Sully said, he's not he's not pursuing the juror. So hopefully for Reddington, he can just get either Tim Cruz to drop it or he can get a dismissal, you know, thanks to double jeopardy, retrying the case all again, you know, and Maybe maybe lobby the judge, Judge Sullivan, to just say, you know, it's clear that this juror was didn't follow instructions. And so I'm going to declare her not guilty. Maybe that happens. Whatever the exception, of course, if the judge declares a mistrial without real need, the legal term is manifest necessity. A retrial can be barred. So anyway, Lindsay Clancy, November 2nd.