In fact, just this week, ABC’s masterful publicity strategy put Kermit and Miss Piggy on Jimmy Kimmel‘s couch to break their silence in a joint discussion post-breakup.
They can actually be booked on talk shows.” “One of the thing that’s great about puppets is they can have an independent life in the press and on talk shows, as happened when Disney was marketing the last movie and the Muppets made some remarks at a press conference,” Henson says, referring to the 2014 Disney flick “Muppets Most Wanted.” She adds, “They’re not animated characters. “I’ve been following along with all the marketing, and it’s very appropriate that ABC got the audience’s attention with these messages of Kermit and Piggy breaking up,” Henson explains, pointing out the beloved character’s longtime placement as real celebrities in the pop culture stratosphere. I can’t believe I already have to do this again…we are simply close friends.” This summer when rumors swirled of his new girlfriend - Denise, a pig whom he works with on Miss Piggy’s late-night show on ABC’s “Muppets” - the frog took to Twitter to say, “Sheesh. “Kermit responded publicly by saying they had really never been together and they were just friends and never married and (their relationship) was just a big misunderstanding that had blown out of proportion.”įast-forward 25 years and Kermit is up to the same old tricks.
“They had national press for that, just as they had this year,” Henson explains. Looking dazzlingly attractive despite her obvious distress, Miss Piggy assured us that she and “That Frog” will continue to work together on various Muppet projects, “bringing joy and laughter to my many, many devoted fans around the world.” The announcement was made this morning in an exclusive interview with her dear friend Deborah Norville of the ultra-important Today Show. Miss Piggy, legendary star of stage, screen, television, video and other assorted media, announced that from this day forth she is “her own pig,” and will no longer be romantically linked with longtime parter, Kermit (a frog). The original press release - titled “Pig to Press: ‘I’m My Own Pig!'” - obtained by Variety, states: “For insiders, it’s particularly interesting.” “I feel like Bill Prady is picking up literally where my father left off,” Henson says of ABC’s “The Muppets” creator, who began his writing career at Jim Henson’s Muppets. That publicity campaign was called “The Pig of the Nineties.” It was pushed out with a press release on May 10, less than one week before Henson passed away on May 16, 1990, causing the company to drop the campaign.
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