
You guys seem like you can read Tweets, so here you go, the latest on Kevin Clash from the AP:
BREAKING: Sesame Workshop says Elmo actor Kevin Clash resigned, calling sex allegations a “distraction.”
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 20, 2012
This after Sheldon Stephens (above left) accused Clash of having a sexual relationship with Stevens when Stephens was 16, then recanted (supposedly for a $125K settlement), then recanted his previous recantation. It’s a bummer. At the very least, Kevin Clash seems like a guy who loves Sesame Street enough to give up his lucrative dream job to keep from giving Sesame Street a bad reputation, even when he hasn’t been convicted or charged with any crimes. Probably not a lot of people would do that. Or, maybe he’s just guilty (seriously, don’t resign if you don’t want people to wonder if you’re guilty). Either way, it’s a little disingenuous for people to act like a guy whose dream was to play with puppets and kids all day isn’t going to have some weird sexual peccadillo.
Meanwhile, it’s getting worse, with TMZ reporting a second accuser coming forward:
Kevin Clash — known as the voice of Elmo — is facing NEW allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a SECOND underage boy … TMZ has learned.
The accuser — who is now in his 30s — has filed a lawsuit against Clash … claiming the two met on a gay phone chat line back in 1993 … when the accuser was 15 years old and Clash was 32.
In the suit, the accuser reveals his name — Cecil Singleton. His attorney also provided TMZ with a photo.

Among the allegations, Singleton claims, “[Clash] trolled gay telephone chat line rooms to meet and have sex with underage boys.”
In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in NYC, Singleton claims Clash “groomed [the accuser] to gain his trust by, among other things, taking him to nice dinners and giving him money.”
Singleton claims while Clash was featured on “Sesame Street,” he was “preying on teenage boys to satisfy his depraved sexual interests.”
In the suit, Singleton claims … although the sex occurred nearly 20 years ago, he didn’t take action until now because … he “did not become aware that he had suffered adverse psychological and emotional effects from Kevin Clash’s sexual acts and conduct until 2012.”
Singleton is demanding more than $5 million. [TMZ]
Well I believe him. I mean, that doesn’t look like the face of someone who’d do something just for the attention, does it?



A photo with a background filled with poles. Cleverly played, Singleton. Cleverly played.
Somewhere Mitt Romney is screaming, “See??? I told you, ya dumb liberal dimrats!!!”
Looks like Elmo was hanging out with a really bad crowd. You know there has to be more.
Sesame Street writers plan to phase out the Elmo character by enrolling him at Penn State.
*cues Andorian 12 inch Pianist to play Stinky off*
Elmo wants to take a shower and play grab ass.
Seems relevant.
La la la laa, la la la laa, it’s Elmo’s life savings going down the drain because he couldn’t keep his puppet in his pants.
Bull. Look at that picture; I don’t believe that Cecil Singleton is gay for even a second.
Wait, isn’t that Justin Long in “Zack and Miri Make a Porno?”
I ain’t saying he’s a media puppet,
But he ain’t messing with no broke muppet.
Speaking of antiquated gay chat technology, a friend of mine and I would sit in a car in the middle of our small home town and use a high-powered CB radio to try and get passing truckers to respond to: “HEY buddy I’m not gay, but please just tell me you like the way I handle my rig”, etc. So very many times we were directed to come meet over at the Denny’s so they could kill us. We never went though.
Truckers really don’t like being trolled
So you didn’t respond to the threats, does that mean you jumped at the sexual offers?
We never recieved any positive responses, only death threats. BUT maybe death threats are secret-gay-trucker code for “let’s get it on”?!
This needs to be recorded and published. I could listen to hours of trucker responses to this.
Sometimes you could get one guy riled up and taking up the channel, all the other truckers on the channel would get mad and tell everyone to shut up, starting a feedback loop of anger that usually took several minutes to die down.
So let me get this straight: clash’s nefarious plan included taking someone out on dates and giving him stuff, in order to make them more succeptible to doing sex?
Christ, i’m gonna need so many lawyers.
Yeah, it doesn’t sound that bad… Until you add “to a 15 year old boy” to the end of that sentance.
Everything sounds worse when you add a 15 year old boy to it. “Let’s slap ourselves in the face and pound dimetapp until we see things” with a 15 year old boy. “Hey bros, let’s get drunk and watch a porno together” with a 15 year old boy. prudes.
There’s no chance this upstanding young citizen has goals in the entertainment industry right? Pretty far fetched?
All Elmo wanted was to talk to Mr. Noodle, is that so wrong?
Did they find these guys on a gay chat line or at a Twilight convention?
You wouldn’t think it to look at him but Cecil actually sounds like Tom Waits and has done since he was seven years old.
Sesame Street: The new Catholic Church
Is that picture before he shaved his head and changed his name to Billy Corgan?
I was thinking My Chemical Romance guy, but tomayto, tomahto.
“Clash trolled gay telephone chat line rooms to meet and have sex with underage boys.”
Looks like Clash paid the troll toll.
THIS WAS ALL A RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY TO GET ELMO OFF OF SESAME STREET.
And I for one, applaud.
Not to distract from the story, but I’m pretty sure a puppeteer would give amazing handjobs.