O.J. SIMPSON is spending his time behind bars getting fit and counselling fellow prisoners, according to a close friend of the shamed American football star-turned actor.

Norman Pardo has visited Simpson at Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Center, where he is 11 months into a 33-year sentence for masterminding a 2007 memorabilia heist in Las Vegas.

And he claims the 62 year old is working out daily.

He tells the New York Post, “O.J. works out every day. He’s lost a lot of weight and he’s in great shape. He says that’s one of the benefits of not being able to go out and party like he used to.”

Pardo also claims Simpson has been offering anger management and race relations counselling to other inmates at Lovelock.

Producer Pardo is currently promoting a new movie he has created from 70 hours of footage of the Naked Gun star, originally shot to help repair his pal’s reputation.

According to the Post, he has turned the tapes into a fictional film called Suspect 32.