EDIT: Here's Steve Witmire's blog post: https://stevewhitmire-muppetpundit.com/2017/07/11/its-time-to-get-things-started/
Here's the response from Cheryl Henson:
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...bitter-depressed-victim/?wpisrc=nl_amk&wpmm=1
Here's the response from Cheryl Henson:
OP, do you want to add the actual Facebook post in question?
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...bitter-depressed-victim/?wpisrc=nl_amk&wpmm=1
With his enormous mouth, cheerful eyes and frantic way of talking, Kermit always seemed like a joyous frog.
But Kermit's personality appeared to change in recent years. At least that's how Cheryl Henson, the daughter of Kermit's creator Jim Henson, saw it.
So in October, Kermit's longtime puppeteer, Steve Whitmire, was fired from Muppets Studio. After months of silence, last week he posted a blog item critical of the decision, calling it a ”drastic action" that left him devastated.
In response, Cheryl Henson reportedly took to Facebook to criticize Whitmire's version of the beloved frog. Whitmire, who took over the role when Jim Henson died in 1990, ”performed Kermit as a bitter, angry, depressed victim," she said.
”Steve's performance of Kermit has strayed far away from my father's good hearted, compassionate leader of the Muppets," Henson wrote. ”Worst of all," she added, in the past few years ”he has not been funny or fun."