This week The Times was granted a video interview with Kermit the frog - impresario, entertainer, romantic, icon - and we invited you the reader to submit the questions, which we put to him on your behalf. Thanks to your uncompromising questions, we can now reveal the esteemed lead Muppet’s views on topics including the Leveson Inquiry, the Obama administration, the perils of public nudity, and, of course, Miss Piggy. Watch the video above.
Kermit has had a long and successful career in entertainment. He was given his break in the mid-Fifties by a TV-agent who was passing his swamp and noted an uncommon talent. This led to Kermit’s first visit to Hollywood, where he would meet other pre-fame Muppets - although it was Jim Henson to whom Kermit attributes his spectacular rise to fame as the frontman and stage-manager of The Muppet Show. Most recently he appeared in the well-received film The Muppets (the DVD/Blu-ray is out now).
Kermit’s decades of TV and film stardom has led him to being awarded an honorary doctorate of amphibious letters at Southampton College in New York, and in 1994 he was given the honour of giving a speech to the Oxford Union. It’s been a unique career.
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