Steve Whitmire, the voice of Kermit the Frog for 27 years, isn't going away quietly.
The 57-year-old puppeteer has been the voice of Kermit the Frog since 1978, but was fired in October from his job over what the studio is calling "repeated unacceptable business conduct" that was over "a period of many years." Whitmire appeared on the Today show on Thursday, and said the decision completely blindsided him.
"I was stunned, it seemed like about five seconds of silence," Whitmire says about receiving the call that he would no longer voice the beloved Muppet. "And I had had no advance warning on that. Nothing had ever been framed to me as a career-breaking problem, you know."
"In fact, we had be talking prior to that, for two years before that, about me being sort of a creative producer with them, working alongside the two executives whom I spoke with, where I would have been really part of the day to day decision making on the the Muppets," he continues. "And I was thrilled about that."
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