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Caroll Spinney Retires after 50 years as Big Bird.

Caroll Spinney Retires after 50 years as Big Bird.

Aww he will be missed, what a great job he did!

Caroll Spinney is saying goodbye to his yellow suit, as he is retiring from “Sesame Street.”

At age 84, Spinney will finish his work on his roles as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. Matt Vogel, Spinney’s apprentice, will take over Big Bird.

After a half-century of playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney is retiring https://t.co/18XDzDZxst

— New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) October 17, 2018

“I always thought, ‘How fortunate for me that I got to play the two best Muppets?’ Playing Big Bird is one of the most joyous things of my life,” he told the Times.

Read more via abcnews.go.com.

Image: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com

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