Inside Richard Simmons' bizarre final years: Fitness guru stepped back from the spotlight - only for podcast sleuths to claim he was 'missing' and being 'held hostage by his housekeeper' or 'changing gender'
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The fitness guru, who died aged 76 on Saturday, was the subject on one for the first ever viral podcasts in 2014.