The Spectator reports:
Britain has lost the plot over Peppa Pig
The hysteria over a cartoon ‘baby’ is out of control
It started with Mummy Pig’s ‘pregnancy’ being announced as an ‘exclusive’ on GMB in February. The story was swiftly picked up across the national press, with media outlets gushing that the news caused such a stir it ‘broke the internet’. Then last month came a ‘gender reveal’ at Battersea Power Station (home of the Peppa Pig store), which included a sunset countdown for Mummy and Daddy Pig to reveal a big pink display announcing ‘It’s a girl’. And in case that was a bit too subtle, the chimneys of the power station were lit up in pink too, visible across swathes of London.
Apparently, Daddy and Mummy pig have been making bacon - a girl named Evie - out of sight of their pre-school audience of course.
FNN has learned that Greggs have named their new 'tender and sweet' bacon roll Evie, in honour of the birth.