Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and more stars who got their start on the popular kids' series Kate Hogan was Director of Digital Specials and Features at PEOPLE. She started at PEOPLE in 2008, leaving in ...

For nearly two decades, Barney & Friends brought joy, music, and gentle life lessons to preschoolers. With its purple dinosaur host, catchy songs, and focus on kindness, it became a cultural ...

Everyone knows Barney the Dinosaur. But what you might not know is that several stars got their big break on the beloved children's series. While the show was teaching kids the importance of kindness ...

Carey Stinson was a 23-year-old Chili’s employee in 1991 when a co-worker first introduced him to Barney, the purple dinosaur. “One of the employees asked me, “Can you work Saturday for me because I ...

Few children’s shows carry the baggage that Barney & Friends does, even now. Created as a series of videos by Dallas mom Sheryl Leach in 1988, the show was eventually discovered by Connecticut Public ...