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PHOTOS: Katy Perry’s Outfit Got Her Kicked Off Sesame Street

by Verena von Pfetten | 9:10 am, September 23rd, 2010


Katy Perry was supposed to star on the New Year’s Eve episode of Sesame Street, but apparently the cleavage-revealing dress she wore for the taping isn’t sitting right with parents.

It was after Sesame Street posted a segment of Perry’s episode to YouTube that the complaints started rolling in. TMZ reports:

The song made its way to YouTube Monday and racked up nearly a million views. But some parents started complaining her cleavage was too front and center. We’ve learned producers have decided not to air the song on the show.

As TMZ sagely points out, Perry’s décolletage is actually covered by fabric — though what they call “flesh-colored,” we call “see-through.”

The New York Times has published the following statement from Sesame Street:

“Sesame Street has a long history of working with celebrities across all genres, including athletes, actors, musicians and artists. Sesame Street has always been written on two levels, for the child and adult. We use parodies and celebrity segments to interest adults in the show because we know that a child learns best when co-viewing with a parent or care-giver. We also value our viewer’s opinions and particularly those of parents. In light of the feedback we’ve received on the Katy Perry music video which was released on You Tube only, we have decided we will not air the segment on the television broadcast of Sesame Street, which is aimed at preschoolers. Katy Perry fans will still be able to view the video on You Tube.”

UPDATE: Unfortunately, in between the time we read this story and posted it, Sesame Street had pulled from YouTube — so we’re curious to see what the producers have to say now. In the meantime, enjoy the below gallery of screenshots!




UPDATE #2: Big thanks to commenter J Baustian, who directed us to this still working copy of the segment.

[via Gawker.]



  • J Baustian

    For all those Sesame Street viewers who were breast-feeding just a few years ago, or might still be, the sight of Katy Perry’s boobs probably reminded them of how wonderful breasts are.

    There is nothing “dirty” about a woman’s breasts, and if all the childrens’ programming on PBS featured topless women then maybe the children would grow up with fewer neuroses.

  • J Baustian
  • http://victoriamnieves.tumblr.com victoriam

    Everyone who polled in “What was she thinking?” is an ignoramus. I’m quite sure that she, herself did not pull that outfit out of her closet and say “Yes, I want millions of children to see me wear this on sesame street”. Katy Perry probably had little to no control over what she would be wearing on the show.

  • Brigitte031

    Right, because all those children didn’t SUCK on their mother’s breasts. They exist, they are a part of a woman’s anatomy. People need to get over it.

  • http://www.heelshield.com HeelShields

    All of that aside – it is really an unattractive dress!

  • Andrew Cedotal

    That is a wonderful gallery of Christine O’Donnell faces she’s making, there.

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