![]() ![]() Earlier this week, Business Insider revealed the man inside the suit to be 53-year-old David Joyner. Iconic kids series “Barney and Friends” ran for 13 seasons, from 1991 through 2001, with the show revolving around Barney, a giant purple dinosaur who delighted in singing and dancing with kids. Despite the positive reviews, Barney & Friends was canceled in 2009. “Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination, and when’s tall he’s what we call a dinosaur sensation,” ran the theme song of the popular children’s television show. There are some things you probably don’t know about the man behind (or rather inside) the Big Purple Dinosaur-like what he looks like. Meet David Joyner: He played Barney on the pop-culture phenomenon/PBS show Barney & Friends from 1991 to 2001. This version of the suit includes a blinking mechanism. The costume for this season began the current method of controlling Barney (the performer bites down on a rod attached to the inside of the lower jaw, and nods his head to move it). The current Barney costume is now made out of Antron fleece. ![]() What happened to the original Barney costume? Although he celebrates his birthday in the Barney franchise, he remains over 200 million years old. In a surprising Where Are They Now update: actor David Joyner’s career has transitioned from Barney & Friends to owning and operating a tantric massage practice. The silliest of these rumors, which still pops up from time to time, is that the “actor who played Barney” (who is nameless, in this story) was actually a crazy cocaine addict, supposedly so addicted that he hid his prized cocaine stash up Barney’s purple tail, which eventually got him caught and thrown in jail.Īctor Who Played Barney the Dinosaur Now Works as a Tantric Sex Therapist. 4 Where was Barney and the Backyard Gang filmed?.2 What happened to the original Barney costume?.1 Is the man who played Barney in jail?. ![]()
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