Beloved Big Bird 'Sesame Street' puppeteer, Carroll Spinney, is dead at 85

10:44am PST - December 8th, 2019    miss world 2019 - Mashable

Carroll Spinney, the beloved and renowned puppeteer who brought the original Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life on Sesame Street for nearly 50 years, died on Dec. 8 at the age of 85. According to a statement from his colleagues, Spinney left this world in …