Gene Simmons & Shannon Tweed Fake It for the Cameras
Take the 28-year-old "unmarriage" between a multimillionaire rock star and a former Playmate of the Year, add children, and stir with reality show cameras. Voila, you have the predictably non-nutritious Gene Simmons Family Jewels, an A&E series that purports to show how "the most non-traditional, traditional family in America manages to make it all work."
If by "work" they mean "trump up drama for ratings purposes," that is.
Lizard-tongued KISS frontman Gene Simmons and his longtime partner Shannon Tweed appear to be in the midst of a relationship meltdown, at least according to outward appearances. The premiere of Gene Simmons Family Jewels showed Tweed's reaction to a TMZ photo that caught Simmons walking arm in arm with two young blondes—and apparently this one image is the philandering straw that broke her look-the-other-way back.
In the show, Tweed declared, "I'm sick of hearing it, I'm sick of seeing it, and I'm sick of living with it."
Right. Because after nearly 30 years of putting up with it while raising two kids with the guy, this surely has nothing to do with creating interest for their TV show.
In order to quietly and privately heal their damaged relationship, Simmons and Tweed naturally appeared on the Today Show where Simmons was asked about his claim that he didn't know the women from that TMZ photo. "Please," Tweed snapped. "What he means is he didn't know their names."
Next, the couple went on The Joy Behar Show where in a totally unscripted moment of raw emotional television, Simmons joked about the amount of women he has slept with, and Tweed ripped off her microphone and walked off the set.
I'm guessing if Shannon Tweed has stayed by Simmons' side for this long, despite his many unattractive qualities, she's made her peace with the fact that he's a cheating bag of incomprehensibly bad hair. This entire season has been promoted with the "shocking development" that she was going to consider dumping him, but I don't buy that what they're showing has anything to do with real behind-the-scenes feelings.
Tweed herself says she doesn't want to leak any spoilers for their own show by discussing the status of their relationship: "I don't want to give away everything, but it's not looking great."
Yeah, until the season finale where everything miraculously works out in the end but we get a cliffhanger for season 7, right?
What do you think about the Simmons/Tweed drama? Real life or reality show fiction?
Image via A&E
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Laura Sonora
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Bonnie Willette
KevWife.BaniMom
I watched an episode last year where she admitted on air that she wouldn't be with him if he wasn't who he is. Sorry, no amount of money could get me to sleep with or kiss that man. Why else would you stay with a man who has slept with 5,000 women while 'with' you? Ugh and Icky
Charlotte Newkirk
tracylynnr67
Who cares? Why do peoples private lives matter?
Caffeineplease
I love the show Gene Simmons family jewels. :P I like how witty Shannon is and she does put up with a lot. I think the show is real. I can understand how she feels. Her kids are all grown up and have left the nest..that's probably has a little bit to do with this..shes on a new page in her life and yeah i can see that now ..enough is enough.. they are in their 60's its time to settle down.
Nina MacPherson
I like Family Jewels....I think it is as entertaining as any of the other celebrity family life reality shows. I think they are an engaging couple and have spoiled but smart kids. Who cares if it is a publicity stunt...it appears to have worked or else what would we be talking about now? Hmmm??