Stinson says it was “physically not possible” to do both the dancing and singing. While Stinson’s muscles and sweat were behind the physical Barney, Dean Wendt provided Barney’s voice. Stinson, who was in his mid-30s when Lovato and Gomez were about 10, didn’t have much to say about it. “You have to be very fit, right, to do that because it’s 50 pounds of a costume, so he would take it off, and he’s got his muscles and he’s sweating and we’re like, ‘OK, we are children,’” Gomez said. Gomez echoed Lovato’s thoughts on BBC Radio 1. And I’ve always gone for older guys, so even when I was younger, I thought the guy in the suit was hot.” “Barney was actually very attractive,” Lovato told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. Lovato and Gomez each has said she had a crush on Stinson while working on Barney. They were all really sweet and very professional, and they were fun to work with.” Demi was a little quieter she was a little shy back then. “It didn't really surprise any of us that she was so successful. We all kind of knew that Selena was gonna be successful,” Stinson says. Today, Stinson is an art and concert photographer in the DFW area, and his former co-stars, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez, are the faces of young Hollywood. April 6 marked the 26th anniversary of the iconic children’s TV show, and for nine of the 17 years it aired, Stinson entertained children as the Barney brand exploded. In 2000, Stinson took over for Joyner and stepped into the 50-pound purple costume on the television series. While David Joyner played Barney on Barney & Friends, Stinson was busy entertaining America on national mall tours and stage shows for several years. When PBS picked up the television show Barney & Friends, the birthday parties ceased and Barney’s creator, Sheryl Leach, asked Stinson to audition for the second Barney. After hearing about the dino, he performed as Barney at children’s birthday parties all over Dallas for about a year, he says. This was way before the TV show.”īarney was a character available for kids’ birthday parties and the star of home videos for rent, called Barney and the Backyard Gang, which was shot in Allen.Īfter that day at Chili’s, 22 years of Stinson’s life involved the lovable Barney. “I said, ‘What in the world is Barney?’ This was before the TV show. “One of the employees asked me, "Can you work Saturday for me because I have to be Barney?’” recalls Stinson, a Dallas native. Just find some friends to dress up like Baby Bop and B.J.Carey Stinson was a 23-year-old Chili's employee in 1991 when a co-worker first introduced him to Barney, the purple dinosaur. Now Barney can really be real once your toddler has this Barney costume. The jumpsuit is purple just like Barney, and it even has his famous green tummy and spots! Best of all, the hood includes his friendly smile so that everyone will know what a kind-hearted dinosaur your toddler is. The one-piece jumpsuit has a hood and tail, with Velcro closures for easy access. While your cute little toddler won’t take up quite as much space as the real Barney, they’ll still look just like a mini version with this costume. You can bring Barney to life with this Toddler Barney the Dinosaur Costume. Then they can join in on the fun, too! Product Details But not Barney! The best part of Barney is that he wants to be everyone’s friend! Next time you’re playing with Barney and one of your friends is too scared to join in, just assure them that Barney absolutely will not eat them. We understand that, since dinosaurs sometimes have a pretty scary reputation for chasing and eating things. Though we must admit, it’s pretty silly that no one else would see a giant, talking, purple-and-green dinosaur! He’s almost as big as a house, after all! Maybe other people do see him but are too scared to come talk to him. Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t really real! If you believe in him hard enough, he’s sure to appear and play with you and all your friends, even if no one else can see him.
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