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Following the sudden firing of Steve Whitmire, the longtime voice of Kermit the Frog for The Muppets, new Kermit voice actor Matt Vogel has finally made his first appearance in a new online video. Whitmire, who worked with The Muppets since 1978, took over as the voice of Kermit after Jim Henson's death When Vogel was[...]

As The Felt Turns? Sesame Street 90210? 'Animal' Kingdom? Only days after the surprise announcement that Kermit the Frog puppeteer Steve Whitmire would be parting ways with Muppets Studio after nearly three decades of voicing the character, he's taken to his personal blog to set the record straight Whitmire writes that he was fired unexpectedly by[...]

If the next time you hear Kermit the Frog he sounds a little different, you're not imaging things: long-time puppeteer Steve Whitmire, whose been working with The Muppets since the The Muppet Show in the late '70's, is reportedly no longer working with Muppets Studio Muppet fan site Tough Pigs reached out to the company[...]