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Simon Shelton, Teletubbies' Tinky Winky, Has Passed Away at Age 52

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 25 2018, @03:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the RIP dept.

Tributes have been paid to actor Simon Shelton, best known for playing purple Teletubby Tinky Winky, following his death at the age of 52.

[...] The original Teletubbies ran on the BBC from 1997 to 2001 and spawned a number one single, called Teletubbies say 'Eh-oh!', in December 1997.

Speaking in 2008, Shelton said he had little inkling Teletubbies would be the success it was when he was cast as Tinky Winky.

"I didn't know it would be as big as it was, but I did know as soon as I started working on it that it had something special," he said.

The original Teletubbies series was watched by around one billion children in more than 120 countries in 45 languages.

Shelton, a father of three, lived in Ampthill in Bedfordshire.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42788001

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:44PM (5 children)

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:44PM (#627744) Homepage

    Or an ACTOR doing ACTING.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:57PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @04:57PM (#627750)

    So you are saying it was intentional gay propaganda to turn the kids gay?

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:27PM (1 child)

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday January 25 2018, @09:27PM (#627868)

      Of course it was.

      My children are exactly the right age to have enjoyed the teletubbies when they were spewing their pro-gay propaganda onto our airwaves, and they are both gay now.

      The fact that my sons do not acknowledge their homosexuality and in fact associate with nice young ladies they call their "girlfriend" just shows how pernicious the teletubbies communist, homosexual propaganda really is.

        They have made young men gay, and they don't even know they're gay.

      • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday January 26 2018, @12:35AM

        by wonkey_monkey (279) on Friday January 26 2018, @12:35AM (#627995) Homepage

        Straight gays are the worst. And you just know the grandkids will turn out exactly the same...

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday January 26 2018, @12:52AM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday January 26 2018, @12:52AM (#628003) Homepage Journal

    For an actor, that happens a lot. People see you on TV, they see you in a movie, you're acting. But they mix up the actor with the ROLE. So you gotta be careful. You make that work for you. Not against you. You play a loser, everybody thinks you're a loser. Like @Rosie [twitter.com]. Bad example, she's a total loser. But you know what I mean, I think you know. If you're smart you don't play a play a fat slob, you play a winner, people think you're a winner. And it can open many, many doors!