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In several videos documenting the spat, Washington turns away from his co-star A$AP Rocky and Lee to address a bespectacled photographer.

The show's bespectacled title character is a gentle 8-year-old aardvark who spreads the joy of getting along with others.

"It took great courage," the bespectacled 62-year-old former hedge fund manager told the dozens of reporters gathered around him on 9 April.

Gawky and bespectacled but with the brio of a scrapper, Pearlman was dressed like a quintessential sports geek: black-and-yellow Pittsburgh Pirates hat and Pittsburgh Maulers shirt, the latter a long-gone professional football team.

The young bespectacled journalism graduate is a conservative Muslim.