David Joyner: Last News

Pity the purple dinosaur. He came to spread a message of love, and got the stuffing knocked out of him.

two-part documentary about the darkness surrounding the legendary kid’s show “Barney & Friends.”Friendly faces like Bill Nye and Al Roker are interviewed for “I Love You, You Hate Me,” but so are former actors David Joyner and Bob West — who both donned the purple dinosaur suit during the show’s run from 1992 to 2010.They both provide not-so-jovial recollections about their time as Barney — West even alleging that his entire family received death threats.“They were violent and explicit, death and dismemberment of my family,” he recalls on top of video of Barney stuffed animals being lit on fire. “They were gonna come and find me, and they were going to kill me.”Another interview subject talked about some of the “rumors” he heard about the costumed character, including that he hid “dugs in his tail.”The trailer ends with a woman saying, “I don’t think you could ever think somebody would go and shoot someone.”This could relate to “Barney” founder Sheryl Leach’s son, Patrick Kearns Leach, who was charged with one count each of assault with a firearm and shooting for allegedly shooting his neighbor multiple times after an argument in 2013.

Barney the Dinosaur was a mainstay throughout most of our childhoods, teaching children about the world for much of the 1990s. However, it might surprise you to hear what the actor inside the suit got up to when he wasn’t playing the part of the purple dinosaur.

Barney the Dinosaur was a beloved character to many children in the late 1990s and into the millennium and projected an appearance of total innocence and fun.David Joyner wore the suit of the lovable Tyrannosaurus Rex for a whole decade and helped hundreds of kids to learn about new situations in a fun and informative way.However, now David is helping adults learn in a much less innocent way, as he takes them down a raunchy voyage of discovery that will ruin your childhood memories of the famous dinosaur.David first hung up the purple suit in 2001 to become a spiritual healer before taking the more sensual path towards becoming a tantric sex therapist.He now boasts of having multiple clients, which are called "goddesses" by David, who enjoy