Vanessa Feltz says Miss Piggy is her “most horrible interview ever”.
Vanessa Feltz says Miss Piggy is her ‘most horrible interview ever’
In 1996, the 63-year-old presenter spoke to the temperamental diva, Kermit the Frog and Gonzo about their film, Muppet Treasure Island, as the On the Bed Interviewer on Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast, and Miss Piggy was livid that Vanessa spoke to her movie co-stars first.
Once she brought Miss Piggy into the interview, Vanessa remembered the prima-donna pig turned “vicious” and the TV presenter panicked that she had insulted Miss Piggy.
Appearing on the latest episode of QVC’s The Joy of Shopping podcast, host Emma Real-Davis asked Vanessa: “Have you had any really memorable interviews for whatever reason, like horrible people?”
Vanessa quipped: “I can do horrible people, but I don’t know if the word ‘people’ really applies, and that was Miss Piggy, who was an absolute beep, a total beep.
“It was The Big Breakfast bed. I don’t know if you know this or not, but The Big Breakfast bed was actually hollow, so that the puppeteers, if we had puppets like Zig and Zag or The Muppets or whatever, could be concealed down in the hollow part of the bed.
“And before the show went – it was a live show, in the ad break, the guys who were The Muppets puppeteers, including Frank Oz, the legendary puppeteer, were really nice.
“Chatting away, you know, delightful, really funny and charming and polite and lovely.
“And then the light came on, we’re back on air, and Miss Piggy was absolutely horrible to me….
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