PG TIPS CHIMP DIES AGED 34
October 17,2010
Sunday Express
A CHIMPANZEE who starred in the iconic TV adverts for PG Tips has died. Jilloch, who appeared in the commercials in the Seventies and Eighties, suffered heart failure at Twyford Zoo, in Tamworth, Staffordshire. She was 34. Her death, a week ago today, has only just been announced.
Sharon Redrobe, the director of life sciences at the zoo, said: “Jilloch was one of our favourite chimps so we’re all saddened by the loss.” She was one of the “children” in a family of chimps who dressed in wigs, hats and clothes for the adverts, which featured voice-overs from Cilla Black, Bob Monkhouse and Peter Sellers.
In one of the adverts Jilloch had a starring role as the chimps watched football on TV. In another she helped a repair man try to tune in a microwave oven. The commercials were Britain’s longest-running campaign from 1956 to 2002, but were taken off the air after protests by animal welfare groups. They were inspired by the chimpanzee tea parties held at London Zoo in the Fifties.
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He's so cute!
