Kermit the Frog is getting a new voice. After 27 years crooning as the loved persona, (*27*) Whitmire is leaving the role, a Muppets spokesperson confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

Performer Matt Vogel will take over as the well-known Muppet, according to THR, adding that his first appearance as the personality will likely be in a “Muppets Thought of the Week” video subsequent week. Vogel has been a Muppet performer since 1996 and has also gave the impression on 30 Rock, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Saturday Night Live.

Whitmire, 57, took over the position following the death of Muppets writer Jim Henson in 1990. Whitmire was once reportedly selected through Henson’s son Brian to inherit the personality.

Muppet fan website online Tough Pigs was the first to document the information that Whitmire would be leaving the sequence. No reasoning for Whitmire’s departure has been introduced. The actor also voiced Ernie from 1990-2014, amongst other roles.

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In recent years, Kermit’s reputation has extended past the Muppets into fashionable memes on social media. In a now-viral symbol, an “evil Kermit” wearing a black hoodie acts as a bad influence on the commonplace Kermit in a sequence of hilarious depictions of everyday existence. In every other meme, Kermit is pictured sipping tea whilst other variations of user-generated textual content calls out the irony in common eventualities.

Kermit confirmed to reporters in August 2015 that he had break up from longtime love Miss Piggy. “Piggy and I've gone our separate ways, romantically,” the muppet stated. “It will also be tricky to paintings together with your ex, especially if your ex is a pig.”

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