KISS: Gene Simmons says he 'probably has a few kids running around Australia'

KISS bassist Gene Simmons previously made the outrageous claim he'd had sex with 4,800 women during his five-decade-long music career. KISS bassist Gene Simmons confessed on Sunrise on Friday he may have fathered some Australian children while on tour in the country. 'You never know': He was asked by Sunrise host Edwina Bartholomew about his plans for the upcoming KISS tour when he made the startling paternity admission Say what? 'I may have a few children running around in your country, you never know,' he said Back on stage: Speaking of his band's upcoming tour, he said they planned to go ahead with the March 2022 shows followed by concerts across South America But he politely declined, saying: 'We are on morning television in Australia, and it is hideous, and I looked down at the floor just now and it is dirty. Cleaning up his act: In 2016, Gene told The Sun he had photographic evidence of sexual partners but was made to burn them all by his now wife, Playboy model Shannon Tweed, before they married in 2011 after 28 years of dating Burning up: He said, 'I didn't do drugs in the crazy times but I did do sex.