WHAT A DRAG

Gene Simmons’ ego is showing along with his wild outfit in his new role as hermaphrodite Velvet Von Ragnar in the upcoming spy flick, “Never Too Young to Die.” He goes the bad-guy route opposite teen spy John Stamos, who’s aided and abetted by Vanity.

While doing a rap number in drag, Simmons (of the rock group Kiss--see Record Rack, Page 66) worried that members of his transvestite backup band were stealing the (strange) show.

“Some of those guys looked fantastic,” director Gil Bettman told Outtakes. “I’m talking falling down gorgeous. So Gene takes me aside, and says, ‘Hey, these guys are all very nice. But when I’m on stage, there is only one diva!’ ”

At the time, Simmons was wearing thigh-high stiletto boots, an “incredible” Las Vegas-type showgirl costume with see-through bodice, a huge headdress and a cod-piece.

Bettman calls the Simmons character “a sexual smorgasbord. He’s like Dr. No--in drag--with a stage show.”