PITTSBURGH (AP) — What? The world’s most popular purple dinosaur is out smoking, drinking and swearing? That’s what the Lyons Partnership, Barney’s licensing company, fears people are thinking when ...

Darby Risner had worn the Barney head before, in seventh grade for a character dress-up day at school, back when the fuzzy purple dinosaur costume still had its full matching suit, before the arms on ...

“Barney came out on television when I was just 10 years old, and I admittedly didn’t understand him,” the director, Tommy Avallone admitted. “As a teenager, for one of my birthdays I asked my aunt to ...

A teenager donned a giant Barney the dinosaur head to prank her friends, but the joke backfired when she got stuck in it. After failing to free her, 15-year-old Darby Risner’s friends drove her to a ...

I love you, you love me… and Demi Lovato loved Barney. In a new interview on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show, the "Cool for the Summer" singer reflected on one of her earliest crushes: the man inside ...

David Joyner might not be the most recognizable name to television fans, but his work as the actor inside the suit of Barney certainly is. Joyner played the benevolent purple dinosaur on “Barney & ...

A 15-year-old Alabama girl got stuck in a giant Barney dinosaur head, and had to be "rescued." Darby Risner told AL.com she was at a sleepover party at a friend's house over the weekend when she found ...