Everyone recognizes the large purple dinosaur, but not many people know the man inside the costume. David Joyner played Barney for 10 years on TV and in live performances, and dancing around in ...

It came at a price." In another candid revelation, Lovato admitted to having a childhood crush on the actor inside the Barney ...

At the height of the show’s popularity, the podcast shared, the cast and crew faced serious backlash over the kid-friendly purple dinosaur ... guy inside of the Barney costume was African ...

The popular Barney & Friends ran on PBS from 1992 until 2010, and the new series will premiere next year. Previously, the purple dinosaur was played by an actor in a costume, but this reboot will ...

and is the topic of a new podcast Barney had love for everyone, but the same couldn't be said for the big, purple dinosaur. As the Barney phenomenon continued to dominate in the 1990s, a culture ...

So then when I also got the role, it wasn't like I had to put on a costume and a facade ... which traced Barney's beginnings to the eventual vitriol the dinosaur received. "Barney bashing" was ...

Joyner played the benevolent purple dinosaur on “Barney & Friends ... the Klan had found out that the guy inside of the Barney costume was African American, so they banned their kids from ...