GENE SIMMONS: 'I Pick What I Want From The Menu Of Life'

December 10, 2007

Stephanie Gardiner of the Brisbane Times reports: Gene Simmons, tongue-wagging KISS frontman and bassist who claims to have slept with over 4,600 women, is about to reveal all for Australian television.

"Gene Simmons Family Jewels" is a reality television show that follows the family life of the rockstar, his former Playboy Playmate of the Year partner Shannon Tweed and their two children Nick, 18 and Sophie, 15.

The first series of the show will go to air in Australia from January 9 on Foxtel's Bio Channel.

Simmons says he didn't consult his family before filming started because, well, he's Gene Simmons.

"I have a peculiar lifestyle, I don't really check around to see if it's okay," Simmons told AAP from Beverly Hills. I sort of do what I want to do and then people whose lives I make possible trust that my judgments are correct. The idea of democracy in a home is highly overrated."

Simmons says he is attracted to reality television simply because he is Gene Simmons.

"I'm in the Gene Simmons business and anything I want to do that appeals to me, I do and I don't really question it much," he says. "I did ('Rock School') because I wanted to do it, it's sort of like if you're lucky and blessed in the way I have been and continue to be, life gives you a menu and you have a choice. Most of the people on the planet don't have any choices. You know, you go to work at jobs you hate, you wind up having to go to your mother-in-law's house, the church forces you to get married. I refuse to lead my life that way, I do what I want to do ... I pick what I want from the menu of life."

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