Speaking out for the primary time amid a maelstrom of hypothesis that he’s a CGI character, Ted Lasso actor Brett Goldstein took to Instagram on Thursday to substantiate that he’s a “normal human man” who does “normal human basic things, like rendering and buffering and transferring data.”

“There’s a fucking load of mad shit happening on the internet today as usual, and I just want to clear up something once and for all: I am a completely real, normal human man who just happens to live in a VFX house, and does normal human basic things like rendering and buffering and transferring data,” Goldstein stated.

Gizmodo had tirelessly and bravely pursued the story for at some point, reaching out to Goldstein’s agent and contacting him through Instagram DM, which undoubtedly performed a job in shaping his eventual dramatic confession. Rumors had swirled on Reddit and different boards for months that Goldstein’s Ted Lasso character, Roy Kent, had been digitally edited into the present, although some resisted the conspiratorial nature of the claims.

“Nah. Dude just walks funny and looks like a brunette Oscar the Grouch,” one Reddit consumer wrote in a since-deleted comment.

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As Gizmodo has beforehand reported, CGI and gratuitous visible modifying does play a big position in Ted Lasso’s manufacturing, particularly in scenes wherein the present’s fictional soccer membership performs matches in crowded stadiums. Just final week, eagle-eyed viewers noticed what seemed to be a notch-free iPhone 13 in a single scene, doubtlessly the results of an unintentional post-production slip-up.

The UK-based Goldstein—whose IMDB web page additionally lists him as having just lately appeared in Dr. Who and the TV film Spaced Out—could have been the primary totally CGI character on tv had the rumors been true. We thank him for his candor and bravado regardless.