If the question of whether or not the Teletubbies were gay has kept you awake at night for the past fifteen years or so, good news: you can finally get some shuteye. Nikky Smedley, a.k.a. Laa-Laa, a.k.a. "the yellow Teletubby," a.k.a. "the slutty one," has broken her years-long silence on the Teletubbies' sexual orientation by publicly stating that the beloved children's characters were not, in fact, playing for the same team. "I think it's embarrassing for the people who said it," she recently told the Telegraph, addressing those on the religious right who alleged that the show had gay undertones. "What kind of person can take the obvious innocence and turn it into something else? We were hardly sexual beings." Smedley, who played Laa-Laa for ten years before the show's run ended, [...]...
- 5/31/2012
- Nerve
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