O.K. I CAN UNDERSTAND PAYING HOMAGE BUT TYSON BECKFORD MAKES SOME REAL FRUITCAKE COMMENTS ABOUT RUSSELL SIMMONS!

Tyson Beckford has Russell Simmons all figured out. "A lot of guys might wonder why he gets all the ladies," Beckford told us at Simmons' launch of his reality show, "Running Russell Simmons," on Tuesday night at Lavo (it will air Nov. 2 on Oxygen). "You look at him and you can't figure out his age. He's like the angel of hip hop, the angel of doing right. … Whether you're gay, straight or black or white, it don't matter … you just can't resist him," Beckford continued, before adding this coup de grace: "He's got the Dos Equis guy down pat," said Beckford, who's known Simmons more than 20 years. "He's the 'Most Interesting Man in the World.'"