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Your support makes all the difference.A sex scandal will not tear apart Sesame Street. Days after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash, they have been withdrawn - the claimant recanting his story he had sex with Clash while still a minor.
"He wants it to be known that his sexual relationship with Mr. Clash was an adult consensual relationship," says the unidentified man's lawyers.
The New York Times comments: "The statements were followed by detectable sighs of relief from those who had been alarmed by seeing the words 'under-age sex' in the same sentence as 'Elmo'"
Mr Clash remains on a leave of absence from the Sesame Street Workshop, where he has played Elmo for decades. Last year, he was profiled in a documentary Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey.
The allegations led Clash to come out as a gay man, something he had previously been unwilling to discuss in public.
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