he really name of barney the dinosaur is, David Eugene Joyner is an American actor. He is best known for physically portraying Barney from 1991 to 2001 on the children’s television series Barney & Friends and its predecessor Barney and the Backyard Gang. Later on, he played the titular character of Hip Hop Harry.

 

 

 

The actor who previously played the popular kids character Barney The Dinosaur now runs a business specialising in tantric s@x and massages, a new interview has revealed.

David Joyner, who is described as a “tantra massage specialist and spiritual healer”, was responsible for the physical portrayal of the purple dinosaur from 1991 to 2001 (the character was voiced by a separate actor).

Joyner has described the very different career path he has taken since leaving the PBS children’s show Barney & Friends.

Barney the dinosaur, of course, radiated pure, joyful love. It was part of what children, still full of innocence, found so appealing about him. And it’s what many parents, beaten down to various degrees by the sobering realities of the world, found so goddamn cloying. Joyner gave expression to that love through his physical portrayal of the exuberant T-Rex.