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'Sesame Street' denies writer's claim that Bert and Ernie are gay: They are 'best friends'
The makers of "Sesame Street" say Bert and Ernie, the classic feuding Muppets who appeared on the popular children's television show, are not gay. The statement came Tuesday after former "Sesame ...
Time6y
Sesame Street Says Bert And Ernie ‘Don’t Have a Sexual Orientation’ After Longtime Writer Claims They’re Gay
A former writer for Sesame Street said in a recent interview that he considered Bert and Ernie to be gay — but the show rebutted this claim, saying the puppets “do not have a sexual ...
ABC News6y
Former 'Sesame Street' writer says Bert and Ernie are gay. The show says otherwise.
The show released a statement that says puppets don't have sexual orientations. Following an interview given by a former "Sesame Street" writer who said he wrote the beloved characters Bert and ...
NPR13y
Sesame Workshop: Bert And Ernie Just Friends, Have No Sexual Orientation
This week, an online petition concerning Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie started making the rounds. The Facebook petition asked that Sesame Street allow the two male Muppets, who share a house and ...
Yahoo4y
Sesame Street Should Have Let Bert and Ernie Be Gay, and Here’s Why
Why, Sesame Street? Why? After longtime staffer Mark Saltzman told Queerty that he’d always written Bert and Ernie as gay, the venerable educational show for kids didn’t respond ...
People6y
Ex-Sesame Street Writer Says Bert and Ernie Are Gay as Show Insists They're Just 'Best Friends'
“I said, ‘hello’ when I got near,” Bert sings in the video, released on Sesame Street‘s YouTube channel. “He said …” “Oh what’s that? I got a banana in my ear,” Ernie adds.
Mashable4d
'Sesame Street' writer thinks of Bert and Ernie as a 'loving couple'
And I was the jokester. So it was the Bert & Ernie relationship, and I was already with Arnie when I came to Sesame Street. So I don’t think I’d know how else to write them, but as a loving ...
Snopes.com2y
Are Bert and Ernie Gay?
It has long been whispered that Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie are gay. At various times the rumor has escalated into their actually getting married on the show, this event either being planned ...
The Hollywood Reporter6y
‘Sesame Street’ Writer Confirms Bert and Ernie Were a Couple
Former 'Sesame Street' writer Mark Saltzman confirmed that puppet characters Bert and Ernie were a couple in an interview with Queerty published Tuesday. By Lexy Perez pmc-editorial-manager Hoping ...
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Sesame Street NECA Bert And Ernie Figures Up For Preorder
Sesame Street was the talk of SDCC this year, as NECA revealed that they have the license to make action figures in their Ultimates line from the iconic show. The first two of those figures, Bert ...
The Washington Post5mon
Inside ‘Sesame Street’ as it fights to survive
With a lucrative HBO deal ending, the show tackles emotional well-being and remakes itself to win over a new generation. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript ...