"Another thing I forgot to mention: during the shenny kiss, the audience went nuts. People were screaming, cheering and applauding."
That, and the fact that Jim and Kaley were in such a good mood about it, suggests that nobody (save for a tiny sliver of shippers with a vested interest in keeping Sheldon and Penny as far apart as possible) buys that "sibling" malarkey. So I really don't see the point of this interview bringing it up. They stressed the friendship angle for eight years (and the entirety of OUR show, Seasons 1-4), they can't retcon that now. Particularly, as has been said above, if they're simultaneously using a Shenny makeout scene to draw in the punters and/or for their own interest. It's a complete contradiction.
Penny and Sheldon are close friends. With a strong undercurrent of "something" going on, which some folk read as potentially romantic, and others as simply the odd fascination polar opposites have for each other. And indeed, other folk read as a sibling relationship.
Although I might add that Sheldon and Penny do and say a variety of things that would only be considered genuinely sibling-like if this were the film Deliverance...
When you think about it, at heart, a sibling relationship also implies jousting and banter and insults and pranks, underscored, presumably, with care and affection. Which is lovely. And which is, more pertinently, a description of a considerable number of classic romantic pairings.
However "sibling-like" a relationship is, it will always have the possibility of romance, because - note, this is important - they are not LITERALLY siblings. There is no "taboo", there is no innate biological rebellion against procreating within your own tribe, there is no aversion based on childhood memories of growing up together.
A "sibling relationship" without the literal sibling part is just the jousting, pranks and affection that remains. And that can certainly become romantic.
So there's no need to separate Sheldon and Penny, or chaperone them, and label them "safely" as siblings, unless they're genuinely a threat to the canon couples. And a romantic relationship that is threatened by a friendship is one that's on the rocks already...
In which case the canon couples are already shipwrecked.
(I also miss the years of Prady and vigilant Lorre. Whatever will persuade them to return...*sigh*)
But there is nothing out in the public domain to confirm this. So it could be anything.
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