The executive producer behind ‘The Muppets’ reveals why he broke up Kermit and Miss Peggy’s relationship.
ABC’s ‘The Muppets’ shocked fans around the world when Kermit and Miss Piggy finally broke up. In a statement during the TCA summer press tour, the news went viral. The relationship between the two characters will be one of the new storlyines of ABC’s upcoming ‘Muppets’ reboot from executive producers Bill Prady from ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ and Bob Kushell from ‘3rd Rock from the Sun’.
The new series will feature Miss Piggy hosting her own late-night talk show, with Kermit and company also on board. The entire process will be filmed like a documentary, and will center around the personal lives of the characters including Fozzie, Gonzo and company. But, it begs the question, why break up Hollywood’s most famous couples.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
“Just listening to it, I said it sounds like they broke up. They’re being really evasive. Then Bob Kushell said, ‘What if they’re broken up?’ and it seemed to make sense with what I saw when they were interviewed,” he noted. “It seemed like that couple that was putting up a public face but there was something going on.”
“We started talking about it and I said Piggy probably wanted to be ‘Brangelina’ and wanted to be a public couple — and Kermit is a quiet fella from Mississippi who probably likes a night at home,” he said. “I thought about other couples I know where one or both people in the couple are famous and the challenges they face and the difficulty they have of having a public persona of going out in the world and being recognized and how that affects your relationship. I said, ‘Boy, I think it’s entirely possible that they broke up and that they both had a good reason.’ “
The new ABC series is set to debut this fall and will most likely center around Kermit and Piggy’s nasty divorce. “We might in the first episode even see the break up that maybe there was a paparazzo shooting it while it happened a year or so ago,” Prady said.
