Shannon Tweed Jumps For Joy

Shannon and Tracy Tweed Jump for Joy!

After Gene Simmons Says "I'll do my best to be faithful"

After all, you can't ask more from him than his best, right? Of course, this comes just in time to drum up viewer interest the new season of their reality show "Gene Simmons Family Jewels", which starts Oct. 4.

In a preview clip for the upcoming season of the show, Simmons and Tweed can be seen discussing their problems, despite having wedding bells on the way.

“He doesn’t promise to be faithful to me," Tweed complained.

Like she promises to be faithful to him, at least unless the script calls for it.  Shannon, lest it be forgotten, is a former Playboy Playmate of the month October, 1981, and Playmate of the Year 1982, and subsequently 'star" in numerous cheesy "romantic/erotic" thrillers.

“I will do my best,” was all that Simmons had to say about that.

Of course, I'm sure she's not such a good actress that she could fake a jealous moment or two to help get new publicity in advance of their new season..

 

“It is time for me to grow up,” he admitted. “I’m 62. I’ve been doing a lot of wacky stuff for an awfully long time — the band, the thing, traveling around the world and all that. There’s nobody I’ve ever loved. There’s nobody I’ve ever said ‘I love you’ to. I even find it difficult to say ‘I love you’ to my mother, but I love Shannon with all my heart and all my soul and always will.”

Of course, this post is just pure Rule 5 blog-whoring.  Over the past two days the hit counter has been off the chart (at least in my experience) on this old stupid post about how she and Gene had a falling out (conveniently at the end of last year's season, setting up a cliff hanger), and a follow up post on Gene's public and video-taped marriage proposal in the off season (clearly designed to whet more interest in the series). Oh, and the new series starts tonight.

At least we all know what our goals are here...

 Thanks to the Rule 5 Wombat at The Other McCain's for the link and his weekly Rule 5 omnibus, and The Classical Liberal for his link, go see his collection!

I Sense a Disturbance in the Source

Oh wait, never mind, it's just ex-Playboy model Shannon Tweed and KISS frontman Gene Simmons getting around to setting their wedding date.

Looks as if Gene Simmons is growing up. After 28 years, the Kiss rocker is ready to stop cheating on his girlfriend and start cheating on his wife.

Some time on Friday morning, the news must have hit, because my hit count climbed and stayed up all day, doubling my normal meager counts, and the vast majority of the hits were on two old posts (here and here) on Shannon and Gene's extremely public marriage problems and plans.

I hope this all calms down soon, I'm starting to run out of only mildly naughty pictures of Shannon.  But I'm not going to waste this chance...

His publicist confirmed Friday that Simmons, 62, and longtime partner, Shannon Tweed, 54, are engaged and plan to marry Oct. 1 in Beverly Hills. People.com posted a photo of the invitation, created by the couple's children, Nick, 22, and Sophie, 19.

That seems unlikely, though, as Gene is a confirmed cad (and making a good living at it too, what with the TV show and all).

Simmons, 62, proposed to Tweed, 54, on the season finale of their A&E reality show, "Gene Simmons Family Jewels," after a tumultuous period that found Tweed moving out after Simmons was photographed leaving a restaurant with two younger women.

And who says romance is dead?

Shannon Tweed - Sealed with a KISS

KISS Frontman Gene Simmons Pops the Question to Shannon Tweed

KISS frontman Gene Simmons sealed his longtime love for Shannon Tweed with a kiss...and proposal.

The rock legend who once vowed he wasn't the marrying kind has—after more than 25 years of living together and raising two kids—finally asked the ex-Playboy Playmate for her hand in marriage.

And wouldn't you know…the touching moment just happened to be caught on camera for their A&E reality series, Gene Simmons' Family Jewels!

While I was away in Halifax, the most important thing in the world happened (at least according to my daily hit statistics); Gene Simmons proposed to Shannon Tweed!  Amazingly, hits on my previous post on Shannon and her pseudo-marital woes with Gene spiked from a dozen or so a day to over a thousand, by far my highest day yet. Thanks ya'll!

When last we checked, Shannon had stormed off the set of Joy Behar's show (good choice, Shannon) because Gene, her long time companion, and father of her two kids, didn't show proper contrition for his reputed numerous pseudo-infidelities.

The fact that this proposal came on camera, and just in time for the season finale of their sitcom, no doubt just a coincidence...

Rule 5 Saturday - Shannon Tweed, Grade B Movie, Reality TV Star

Playmate of the Month, November 1981

I ran into a news article the other day that said that Gene Simmons of KISS and his long time girl friend, Shannon Tweed, had been on the Joy Behar show, and when asked about his famous claim of having bedded 5,000 women, he laughed it off. But apparently Shannon didn't, and stormed off the set. That report triggered a few old neurons. 

Playmate of the Year, 1982

Shannon Tweed, wasn't she a Playboy Playmate or something or something?  Well actually yes, she was both Playmate of the month back in 1981, and Playmate of the Year in 1982, when she was one of Hef's "special" friends.  Hey Shannon, if you're tired of Gene and his infidelities, I hear Hef might looking again/still...

After her stint in the mansion, Shannon did what many ex-Playboy models did for a living, went into acting.  She acted in a long series of so called "erotic thrillers", none of which I'd ever heard of before.  However, the one "Cannibal Women of the Avocado Jungle of Death" (1988)  also starring Bill Maher (really???), sounds hysterical, maybe even in a good way...

The U.S. government grows worried for the nation's avocado supply after some confrontations with the "Piranha" tribe of cannibal women, who live in the mysterious "Avocado Jungle" (westernmost outpost: San Bernardino) and ritually sacrifice and eat men. The government recruits Margo Hunt (Tweed), a professor of feminist studies at a local university, to travel into the Avocado Jungle and make contact with the women to attempt to convince them to move to a reservation/condo in Malibu. Along the way, she and her travelling companions -- male chauvinist guide Jim (Maher) and ditzy undergraduate Bunny (Karen Mistal) -- meet a tribe of subservient men called the "Donohue" (a reference to talk-show host Phil Donahue) and face dangers in their path.

In 1985, she hooked up with Gene Simmons of KISS, and though they have never married, they have produced 2 children, and ultimately, a reality TV show "The Gene Simmons Family Jewels", which I've also never watched...  I hear her sister Tracey, also a former Playboy model, occasionally checks in. 

She has also kept more or less busy with TV work, with occasional roles in such things as 142 episodes of "Days of our Lives", "Baywatch, Hawaii" (naturally), "Murder, She Wrote", "Wings", and "Sponge Bob, Square Pants" (I really need to find out just how they worked that in...)
Looking a bit older now (hey, it happens), but still good, she appears to do what stars do. Go to cancer benefits, go on TV with Joy Behar (I guess someone has to do it), and continue the reality show.

It's a long way from daddy's mink ranch in Labrador.

I thank the Rule 5 Wombat at The Other McCain for the link in his weekly collection.  And check out Brother Ted's homage to Jewel Staite.  And in the "Better Late Than Never" category, the Classical Liberal; check out his compendium!