Big Bird, Elmo, Grover, Cookie Monster, Ernie, Bert and Oscar the Grouch celebrate 50 years on Sesame Street. (Photos by Sesame Workshop) Fifty years ago, a television producer’s desire to teach ...

Cast members of Sesame Street posing on the set with some of the puppet characters, 1969. Left to right: Will Lee, Matt Robinson, Bob McGrath and Loretta Long with (left to right) Big Bird, Cookie ...

Officials at Sesame Workshop are denying the claim of a former writer that said the classic characters Bert and Ernie are more than close friends. Former show writer Mark Saltzman told Queerty.com ...

Sunny day! As fans have suspected for years, it turns out the world's most beloved muppet roommates are more than just friends Sunny day! As fans have suspected for years, it turns out the world’s ...

NEW YORK (AP) – The producers of “Sesame Street” want you to know that Bert and Ernie are not, in fact, gay. Sesame Workshop tweeted Tuesday the characters have many human traits but “remain puppets, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The sexual orientation of two puppets has long been the subject of curiosity ...

“I remember one time that a column from the San Francisco Chronicle, a preschooler in the city turned to mom and asked ‘are Bert & Ernie Iovers?’” Saltzman recalled. “And that, coming from a ...

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 ...

Bert and Ernie aren’t getting married. “Sesame Street” said that the famous roommates are just “best friends” and “they remain puppets and do not have a sexual orientation.” “Bert and Ernie are best ...

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- A former "Sesame Street" writer has revealed that Bert and Ernie are gay. Mark Saltzman, who wrote scripts and songs on "Sesame Street" for 15 years beginning in 1984, told ...