Burt Ward, who played Robin on the OG Batman!, Says His Penis Was Too Big for TV
His bulge was so big that he was prescribed pills to "shrink me up," he says.
By Evan Romano
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Burt Ward, who played Robin on the 1966-1968 Batman! show, says that his bulge was too big for TV.
He says that he was prescribed pills to "shrink me up," but that he only took them for three days.
Ward recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Long before Robert Pattinson's famed masturbation streak ran the risk of concluding in 2021's The Batman, there was the Batman! TV series, which became immortalized in the culture after its 1966-1968 run. Burt Ward, who played Robin in the series, was just honored with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in a corresponding interview with Page Six revealed a vital piece of information: the bulge under his superhero tights was too big for TV.
According to Ward, his bulge was considered so big that ABC, the network that aired the show, considered taking action in an attempt to change that. "They thought that Robin had a very large bulge for television," he said, adding that the studio sent him to see a doctor who prescribed a medication that would "shrink me up," as he put it.
Luckily, the famous sidekick didn't spend much time taking the uncommon prescription. "I took them for three days and then I decided that they can probably keep me from having children," he said. "I stopped doing that and I just used my cape to cover it."
Ward also added that his co-star, the late Adam West, had a different problem with his bulge; he needed to go the other direction.
"With Adam they put Turkish towels in his undershorts," he said.
Evan Romano Evan is an associate editor for Men's Health, with bylines in The New York Times, MTV News, Brooklyn Magazine, and VICE.
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