Richard Simmons vanished two years ago — and friends fear he’s being held against his will https://t.co/j7WETz0KOu pic.twitter.com/hEvTQjJcUU

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 12, 2016

The story about Richard Simmons possibly being held against his will is baffling. Because his social media continues to post images of him (don't they? are they old?), I would have sworn he was out and about often in the past 24 months.

It's very fishy that his manager won't produce Simmons for a proof-of-life (!) interview and instead issued a statement about how Simmons is just fine, nothing to see here.

P.S. After the jump, the letter I received from Simmons in 1983 when I, as a morbidly obese kid, wrote him for support ...