Yes, I'm talking about that Elmo.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/13...ult-consensual
Kevin Clash, the puppeteer and voice of Elmo since 1984, is 52 years old.Both Sesame Workshop and Clash indicated the man was claiming that he was a teenager when Clash began a relationship with him. Clash acknowledged a relationship between “two consenting adults,” but said the man otherwise was making a “false and defamatory allegation.”
“I am a gay man,” Clash said in a statement issued Monday. “I have never been ashamed of this or tried to hide it, but felt it was a personal and private matter.
“I had a relationship with the accuser. It was between two consenting adults and I am deeply saddened that he is trying to characterize it as something other than what it was.”
The boy, who is now 23, now admits that it was a consensual sexual relationship, but it still took place when he was 16 and Clash was in his mid-40s, which is beyond inappropriate.
And here everyone was always suspecting Bert and Ernie of this sort of thing.