Simmons shot down The Daily Beast’s report during an interview with BBC “Hardtalk”‘s Sarah Montague. Insisting that he never disrupted a Fox meeting or ripped his shirt off, Simmons said: “Here’s how I wear my shirt. Somebody there apparently had the goods in for me and called something called The Daily Beast or something and said whatever they said I did. I did nothing. I always had people around me. Like when I come here, I’ve got handlers and everybody sees what I’m doing. You can’t go into a public area and do anything.”
Gene continued: “The problem is with social media today is nobody calls you and says, ‘Do you have a comment?’ So the story was printed, and, of course, everybody exploded. And Fox, you know, they’re nice people — I like them a lot — closed ranks and they’re afraid of getting sued by everybody. Nothing happened. I stand by every word.”
Pressed by Montague to clarify that “nothing happened” but Fox still banned him from the network, Simmons said: “That’s right. That’s exactly right. I stand by every word I just said.”
