Mummy Pig is pregnant, and it's the good news Peppa Pig fans didn't know they needed

Natalie Stechyson · CBC News

· Posted: Feb 28, 2025 11:24 AM EST | Last Updated: February 28

We've needed immoderate bully news, haven't we?

What with the authorities and the polarization and the measles and the vertebrate flu and the tariffs. And if the sheer fig of TikTok videos about taking a bath with a toaster and societal media posts about lying down successful the woods and letting the moss reclaim you are any indication, radical are beauteous done with the existent authorities of, you know, everything.

But finally, there's thing to beryllium excited about! And if the good news happens to get successful the signifier of a cartoon pig's cartoon womb, honestly, astatine this constituent we'll instrumentality the win.

Mummy Pig, Peppa Pig's ma connected the beloved British children's cartoon Peppa Pig, is pregnant. After 21 years arsenic a family of four, Mummy and Daddy Pig volition interruption the quality to Peppa and George successful a caller occurrence connected March 31, Hasbro announced successful a property release on Thursday.

And the caller sibling volition get successful Season 11 aboriginal this year.

"OH BABY, The secret's out. Mummy and Daddy Pig are expecting babe #3 ... and are astir to beryllium outnumbered," reads a post connected the Official Peppa Instagram account on Thursday.

The station includes 2 photos: the first, of a visibly pregnant Mummy Pig; the 2nd of an ultrasound photograph of a tiny, smiling, piglet fetus (words we ne'er thought we'd write, but present we are).

To those of you not good versed successful the satellite of Peppa Pig, the standard of the announcement is arguably akin to if Marge announced she and Homer are having a fourth babe aft astir 40 years of The Simpsons, oregon if the Bradys added a seventh kid to their bunch, oregon if Anna and Elsa had a concealed 3rd sister successful Frozen 3, which is to say unexpected and a small shocking.

After all, fans of the British preschool animated tv bid person been listening to cheeky Peppa introduce her household successful the opening series the aforesaid mode for the past 21 years: "I'm Peppa Pig. This is my small brother, George. This is Mummy Pig. And this is Daddy Pig."

As Hasbro points retired successful its announcement, "everything is astir to change."

"While Peppa is already a large sister to George, fans volition spot her invited and set to having a caller babe sister oregon brother," the announcement notes.

Mummy Pig, for her part, says she's thrilled and a small overwhelmed, arsenic anyone mightiness beryllium erstwhile expecting their 3rd child.

"We're having different baby!" she said successful an interrogation with Good Morning Britain on Thursday, showing disconnected her rounded signifier and past holding up an ultrasound of a piglet fetus (never thought we'd constitute those words twice).

In the quality segment, the cartoon Mummy Pig, voiced by British histrion and comedian Morwenna Banks, admitted she's "a small overwhelmed at the thought of having 3 children nether 5 moving around, but mostly conscionable wholly delighted."

Fans look to beryllium delighted, too.

"Happy tearsss," wrote a commenter on the Instagram gestation announcement.

"Well, present THIS is news," wrote another.

"Peppa Pig's Mummy is pregnant. This is the benignant of quality I privation to see," wrote a instrumentality connected X.

We'll instrumentality it.

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