The Sesame Street Workshop is denying claims from a former writer that the iconic muppet roommates and buddies "Bert and Ernie" are gay. Mark Saltzman told LGBTQ lifestyle website "Queerty" that he ...

Bert and Ernie are still just roommates. In a statement, Sesame Workshop was prompted to address the famous puppets' relationship after a former writer for "Sesame Street" said his own relationship ...

“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 ...

Update: A day after his bombshell comments, “Sesame Street” writer Mark Saltzman is walking back his claim that Bert and Ernie are gay. Bert and Ernie are more than just friends, according to “Sesame ...

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 ...

Mark Saltzman, a writer who won seven Emmys for his work on “Sesame Street,” tells Queerty magazine that he couldn’t help but write Ernie and Bert as “a loving couple” because that reflected his ...

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 ...

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A former "Sesame Street" writer has confirmed that Bert and Ernie are gay. Mark Saltzman tells LGBTQ lifestyle website Queerty that he joined the popular children's TV show in 1984 and wrote for the ...

Update: Sesame Workshop says Bert and Ernie are "puppets and do not have a sexual orientation." A former "Sesame Street" writer has confirmed that Bert and Ernie are gay. Mark Saltzman tells LGBTQ ...

The show released a statement that says puppets don't have sexual orientations. Following an interview given by a former "Sesame Street" writer who said he wrote the beloved characters Bert and Ernie ...