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Gene Simmons pulled back the curtain on his pickup method in a recent interview ... because he used a line on the TV news anchor who was asking him questions!!!

Ya gotta see this interaction between the rock legend and Scripps News anchor Maritsa Georgiou ... as their 10-minute interview is winding down, Gene starts hitting on her.

Nick Fuentes is making news outside of his usual Nazi-loving, misogynist ramblings ... for the first time, he's revealed that he's still a virgin at 27!

The white nationalist podcaster sat down Monday with Piers Morgan for a wide-ranging interview on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" — and things got tense when the convo turned to Fuentes' sexuality.

At one point, Morgan asked Fuentes if he's attracted to women, and Fuentes confirmed that he is ... but he finds it "very difficult" to be around them.

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On the latest episode of "The Kardashians," Kim Kardashian accused Howard Stern of mocking her Paris heist attack as a made-up joke ... but Howard denies her claims, and he's clapping back with receipts.

According to clips Howard dug up from when the horrific event first made headlines in 2016, what he actually said was, "If this woman was robbed at gunpoint by a bunch of dudes and they threw her in a bathtub and tied her up -- or whatever they did -- I mean, that is frightening. If it is a farce, then really they should go to jail for that."

In the clip, Howard's co-host Robin Quivers interjects, "I don't think it is," and Howard agrees, "I don't either."

President Trump makes no secret of the fact he wants Jimmy Kimmel fired ... well, ABC just extended Jimmy's TV deal another year.

Jimmy and ABC signed a contract extension that will keep "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on the air through the end of the 2026-2027 TV season ... according to Bloomberg.

The late-night host's current contract was set to expire in May ... but his future with ABC is no longer in doubt.

Literally everything is content nowadays ... "The Originals" star Candice King turned her pregnancy announcement into an ad for Clearblue pregnancy tests in a post shared Monday.

The 38-year-old actress announced she's expecting a baby with her former costar Steven Kreuger, writing, "#ClearbluePartner We’re having a baby! Baby Krueger coming May 2026!"

Seeing as how the post leads with a sponsored hashtag, you might wonder which thing she's happier about -- the new addition, or that sweet, sweet pregnancy test money. But then she added ...

Marciano Brunette is sending a message loud and clear after filing a lawsuit against Demi Engemann and it's all about "getting even."

Just one day after suing Engemann over her sexual assault allegations, the "Vanderpump Villa" star dropped an Instagram Reel Saturday featuring a trending sound about payback. In the clip, the voiceover says, "Somebody do something to me, I'll do something to them, this is common sense," followed by, "So you believe in getting even? Hell to the yeah."

We broke the story ... according to court docs, obtained by TMZ, he accuses "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" star of falsely portraying him as a "sexual predator," claiming the allegations have wrecked his reputation and cost him job opportunities.

“Saturday Night Live" dipped its toe into the Jeffrey Epstein Island scandal that blew up last week, and one of the jokes took a direct swing at the late pedophile ... roasting him for having "girlfriends" young enough to still be wearing braces.

As you know, the House Oversight Committee dropped a trove of never-before-seen photos and videos from Epstein's private island in the Virgin Islands, and the footage is as creepy as you'd expect. A camera operator walks through the property, showing off the mansion, the bedroom, the bathroom ... the whole unsettling tour.

But there's one photo everyone's talking about ... a giant room that looks straight out of a dentist's office, complete with a dental chair and bizarre old man masks lining the walls.

Brandi Glanville says she finally has a diagnosis for why her face was suddenly disfigured ... and it sounds like a huge relief.

We got the former 'RHOBH' star in Sherman Oaks on Friday at the grand opening for goGLOW DJ'd by Klypso and our photog asked her about the face parasite that's been bothering her for a couple years.

Brandi says she finally got a medical diagnosis just yesterday, and when she called her mom to tell her the news, her mother started bawling.

Longtime Mexican comedian and actor Eduardo Manzano died on Thursday, according to his son Lalo.

Lalo revealed the news about his father on Instagram on Friday, and he wrote, translated from Spanish, that "the curtain has fallen on the stage of life."

The comedian's son added the world would be giving his father "a standing ovation one last time."

"Below Deck" star Fraser Olender says he was rushed to a hospital after suffering a heart attack ... and he's blaming it on his vape.

The reality TV personality says there was something in his vape that gave him vape poisoning ... he says it caused the arteries supplying blood to his heart to suddenly clamp down. He says he suffered spasms, which reduced blood flow to his heart, and he suffered a heart attack.

Fraser says medical specialists in London told him his vape was the culprit after spending a week in a hospital for severe chest pains and difficulty breathing.

John Slattery had some interesting times on the set of "Mad Men" ... and he addressed a viral mess-up involving one of his now-iconic scenes during his appearance on Friday's episode of "The View."

FYI ... the actor portrayed Roger Sterling on the hit AMC series, which was rendered in 4K and uploaded to HBO Max's library on Monday, and he was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the show.

The thing is, fans noticed a bit of a mess-up in the season one episode "Red in the Face," in which Sterling vomits after overindulging in oysters and vodka -- which would do any of us in  -- and the effects team manning the puke machine was accidentally left in the shot.

Slattery acknowledged the mistake while speaking to "The View's" hosts, and said the gaffe was left in because the rendering team "didn’t check the fix before they put it on" HBO Max, according to TV Insider.

He then stated the mistake wasn't really "a great look" -- not that puking at work is ever a good look.

The thing is, the gaffe's not gonna be there forever, because Lionsgate confirmed it'd be delivering a corrected version of the episode to HBO Max, reports Variety.

Chad Spodick -- a contestant on "Finding Prince Charming" who progressed pretty far during the show's one and only season -- has died.

A close friend to Chad tells TMZ ... the reality star died Wednesday. The cause of death was not shared.

Chad's family friend Kate Werbowski set up a GoFundMe to help out Chad's mother with funeral expenses and expenses related to his five pets ... and, on the page, she calls his death "sudden and heartbreaking" in the post.

"Jersey Shore" star Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola and her baby daddy Justin May said "I do" in New Jersey yesterday ... and TMZ has all the details on how it went down.

Sources tell TMZ ... the entire 'JS' cast was there except Sammi's ex, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro -- probably for the best to avoid any blowups. But it still wasn't drama-free!

We're told Angelina Pivarnick was really "going through it" at first, because the venue -- Park Chateau Estate & Gardens -- was the same place she got married in back in 2019.

Things got better, though ... according to our sources, "a lot of guys were hitting on her and she ended up catching the bouquet."

Kyle Richards shared her candid response to learning a few people tried setting fashion designer Rachel Zoe up with her estranged husband, Mauricio Umansky -- bluntly stating she's "too old for him."

Check it out -- she gave Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens Live" Thursday her honest response to the scenario ... adding that it's not a dig at Rachel, but to Mauricio.

ICYMI, Rachel made her "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" debut during the Season 15 premiere and told Kyle 3 people tried setting her up with the real estate mogul while they were in Aspen. But, she said she immediately turned it down because he's Kyle's ex.

Jackie Vernon, the voice of "Frosty the Snowman," really must have been a jolly, happy soul prior to his marriage to Hazel Sawyer -- because he started several families and didn't let her know about any of them!

The revelation about the late comedian's personal life was made by his son David on a recent episode of the “Nostalgia Tonight with Joe Sibilia” radio show. David said his father married multiple times and started “at least three” families before marrying Hazel.

David learned about his father's personal life when a woman and her son showed up at his family's doorstep prior to his father's death in 1987. He said she asked to speak with his father -- he wasn't home, so she ended up having a tense conversation with Hazel.

David's mother later told him she'd learned about his father's previous families -- he had "moved on" from them -- and she wasn't sure if Jackie had ever divorced any of his past wives.

Jackie had several sons throughout his past marriages, and he named all of them Ralph -- after his birth name, Ralph Verrone.

Secret families weren't Vernon's only problems, though -- his son said his father had battled depression and addiction to various substances, including Quaaludes and Valium.