{"id":31231,"date":"2025-01-15T21:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kiss-gene-simmons-stands-by-every-word-of-his-dancing-with-the-stars-commentary\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T21:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:02:27","slug":"kiss-gene-simmons-stands-by-every-word-of-his-dancing-with-the-stars-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kiss-gene-simmons-stands-by-every-word-of-his-dancing-with-the-stars-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"KISS’ Gene Simmons stands by \u2018every word’ of his ‘Dancing with the Stars’ commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in October\u00a0Gene Simmons<\/strong> received backlash over his controversial appearance on ABC\u2019s Dancing with the Stars,<\/em> and he continues to defend his actions.<\/p>\n

The KISS<\/strong> founder was a guest judge on the show\u2019s hair metal episode, and was criticized by the public over what some argued were \u201ccreepy\u201d comments that focused on the dancers’ appearances and looks rather than their performances.<\/p>\n

During a recent appearance on the Howie Mandel Does Stuff<\/strong><\/em><\/a> podcast, Simmons\u00a0argued that\u00a0not\u00a0bringing up a\u00a0person’s looks is “not how life is.”<\/p>\n

“Welcome to planet Earth, you will be judged by what you look like,” he said. “I didn’t make the rules, I’m just aware of them, which is why women wear makeup and high heels and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simmons\u00a0argued that the \u201csad\u201d and \u201cwonderful\u201d truth is \u201cthe more beautiful you are, the more in shape, and all that stuff, the better the response is going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simmons says he stands by \u201cevery word\u201d he said on the show and blamed the criticism on too much political correctness.<\/p>\n

“It really has come to the point, and that’s why politics are mirroring the idea of, we, the people, are really sick and tired of this,” he said. “It’s time to just get over yourself. Words \u2014 either we’re allowed to compliment you or not.” He added, \u201cWe worship the ground you walk on. If you have a problem with that, it’s easy to stop. It’s less work for us. You don’t wanna be complimented, respectfully, we’ll stop. Not a problem.”<\/p>\n

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Disney\/Eric McCandless Back in October\u00a0Gene Simmons received backlash over his controversial appearance on ABC\u2019s Dancing with the Stars, and he continues to defend his actions. The KISS founder was a guest judge on the show\u2019s hair metal episode, and was criticized by the public over what some argued were \u201ccreepy\u201dRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}