Kevin expose. Elmo scarred for life.
You may remember yesterday when TMZ and others were reporting that Being Elmo‘s Kevin Clash was taking a leave of absence to deal with allegations that he’d had a sexual relationship with a kid when Clash was 45 and the accuser was 16. Clash had maintained the relationship occurred when both were adults, and now the accuser, who has still not been identified, has since recanted his story. Phew, good thing that’s out of the way before anyone’s reputation got ruined.
Andreozzi & Associates, a law firm that said it represented the accuser said in a statement that “he wants it to be known that his sexual relationship with Mr. Clash was an adult consensual relationship.” The statement added, “He will have no further comment on the matter.” [NYTimes]
Well sure, I can’t imagine anyone might have follow-up questions.
It’s unclear why the accuser suddenly changed his story … but sources close to the situation tell TMZ … the accuser’s attorney had been meeting with Clash’s attorney as recent as an hour ago, discussing a financial settlement and 6-figures were on the table. [TMZ]
Don’t tell me I’m the only one who imagined The Count counting each figure as it was laid on the table there. Now, granted I’m not a lawyer, but this isn’t how extortion usually works, is it? Anyway, move along, folks, nothing to see here. We can all sleep easier knowing that a 45-year-old puppeteer was blowing an 18-year-old, not a 16-year-old like some kind of perv.
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you gotta imagine the puppet entered into the relationship at some point, right?
I personally would be disappointed if it didn’t.
Do you think he giggled and said, “heh heh heh heh THAT TICKLES” in the Elmo voice when he was getting a blowie? Probably not good that that’s the first thing I thought of.
a blowie? Is that when David Bowie sucks your dick? Ive never heard of a Blowie
It’s on Urban Dictionary so you just know it’s commonly used
Looks like all those social crusaders owe me an apology for calling me homophobic after I said Elmo was fucking gay.
I honestly think it sounds more gay if you call him a middle-aged, black, male, puppeteer than a middle-aged, black, male, homosexual puppeteer.
I like this
That’s not going to stop me from pretending that Elmo is the last link of a long chain of men with hands up their butts every time I see him.
“this isn’t how extortion usually works, is it?” Yeah, I always thought you asked for money to not tell your story. Once you’ve blabbed, the point of “pay me to keep a secret” is rather moot. I guess the back-up plan is now “pay me to say I’m a dirty liar.”
Great. Not only does this guy’s reputation get ruined for nothing, but now the GOP has more ammunition for rallying the dumb people of this country to beg for the Government to shutter PBS.
Like a lot people, PBS will survive without living on the government’s dime.
So would the US Military if we privatized that. Why don’t we?
Isn’t Sesame Street basically completely financially independent due to merchandising? I seem to remember they released their finances after Mitt’s “I’m going to fire the SHIT out of Big Bird! THE SHIT!” gaffe and it showed they could basically buy Belgium and turn it into a theme park.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure Elmo could buy America and turn PBS into his ping pong room if he wanted.
“Elmo paid off his accuser, so everything is cool now” would be a more accurate headline.
He decided to change his story upon returning home to find all of his cookies had been eaten and his cat had been raped.
Actually I only know him as Baby from “Dinosaurs” so… Not the Bottom?
–slow clap–