{"artistName":"Miss Piggy","artistId":6967,"artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/599/599e3829e9580e9342553d0eea6ec5ad_lg.jpg","srcset":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/599/599e3829e9580e9342553d0eea6ec5ad_sm.jpg 50w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/599/599e3829e9580e9342553d0eea6ec5ad_md.jpg 80w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/599/599e3829e9580e9342553d0eea6ec5ad_lg.jpg 200w","artistBio":"\u003cp\u003eMiss Piggy is a Muppet character who was primarily played by Frank Oz on The Muppet Show. In 2001, Eric Jacobson began performing the role, although Oz did not officially retire until 2002.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was voiced by Laurie O'Brien in Jim Henson's Muppet Babies and Hal Rayle in Jim Henson's Little Muppet Monsters.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss Piggy began as a minor character in The Muppet Show TV series, but gradually developed into one of the central characters of the show. She is a pig who is convinced she is destined for stardom, and nothing is going to stand in her way. She presents a public face which is the essence of feminine charm, but can instantly fly into a violent rage whenever she thinks she has been insulted or thwarted. Kermit the Frog has learned this all too well; since he is the usual target for her karate chops. When she isn't sending him flying through the air, she is often smothering him in (usually unwanted) kisses.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first known appearance of Miss Piggy was on the Herb Alpert TV special, Herb Alpert and the TJB, broadcast on October 13, 1974, on ABC. Miss Piggy's voice was noticeably more demure and soft, as her agent gets her an audition with Herb singing \"I Can't Give You Anything but Love\".\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first draft of the puppet was a blonde, beady-eyed pig who appeared briefly in the 1975 pilot special, The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, in a sketch called, \"Return to Beneath the Planet of the Pigs.\" She was unnamed in that show, but by the time The Muppet Show began in 1976, she was recognizably Miss Piggy – sporting large blue eyes, wearing a flowing white gown, and jumping on Kermit, the love of her life.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss Piggy soon developed into a major character, as the Muppet creators recognized that a lovelorn pig could be more than a one-note running gag. Frank Oz has said that while Fozzie Bear is a two-dimensional character, and Animal has no dimensions, Miss Piggy is one of the few Muppets to be fully realized in three dimensions. She spawned a huge fad during the late 1970s and early 1980s and eclipsed Kermit and the other Muppets in popularity, selling far more merchandise and writing a book that, unlike any of Kermit's books, wound up on top of the New York Times Bestseller List.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss Piggy's personality and voice has been seen and heard in other female characters performed by Frank Oz before the character's debut. For instance, a Sesame Street Muppet skit from 1971, Snow White, featured the titular character performed by Frank Oz and acting (as well as sounding) like Miss Piggy. Another sound-alike came from a rather hysterical contestant in a Guy Smiley sketch called, \"The Mystery Mix-Up Game\".\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an interview with the New York Times in 1979, Frank Oz outlined Piggy's biography: \"She grew up in a small town in Iowa; her father died when she was young, and her mother wasn't that nice to her. She had to enter beauty contests to survive, as many single women do. She has a lot of vulnerability which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar.\"\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Muppet Movie, she has just won such a contest (Miss Bogen County) when she first meets Kermit and joins the Muppets.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Great Muppet Caper Piggy proves she has a talent for tap dancing, seemingly without knowing it. She and Kermit also kiss (on the lips, yet slightly covered) while Miss Piggy is a prisoner in jail; Miss Piggy ends up wearing Kermit's fake mustache, while Kermit has X-marks on his upper lip.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEventually in the films, Kermit started returning her affections and (unwittingly) married her in The Muppets Take Manhattan (though subsequent events suggest that it was only their characters in the movie that married, and that their relationship is really the same as ever.)\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1987, Miss Piggy was a guest star on Dolly Parton's musical variety show, Dolly, singing and performing with Parton, while at the same time, secretly attempting to steal the show from her host (mostly by sabotaging Parton's musical segments and attempting to trick producers into giving her more solo spots). Parton, annoyed at being undermined by Miss Piggy, told another of her guests, Juice Newton, that they might be \"having ham sandwiches after the show\".\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss Piggy starred in the TV movie The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, appearing as all four witches.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss Piggy has a pet poodle, Foo-Foo.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiss Piggy sang with the Jonas Brothers as \"Joan S. Jonas;\" with Ashley Tisdale during the number \"Bop to the Top\" dressed as Sharpay from High School Musical; and The Cheetah Girls performing \"Dance Me If You Can\" from The Cheetah Girls: One World as a part of Studio DC: Almost Live. A running gag from those first two episodes involved Miss Piggy looking for \"Zacky\" Efron.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Muppet Show episode 106, Piggy is referred to by the full name \"Piggy Lee\"; and in episode 116 Piggy tells guest star Avery Schreiber that Piggy is short for \"Pigathius,\" which is \"From the Greek, meaning 'river of passion'.\" However, there is no evidence to support that this is part of her name. It is more likely that this is a fictitious name Miss Piggy invented as part of her plan to make Kermit jealous. In another instance, Piggy explains that her first name is actually the more feminine-sounding version of Pigathius, \"Pigathia\".\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she was asked what sign she was born under by guest Jim Nabors in Muppet Show series 1 episode 6, she replied: \"I wasn't born under a sign, I was born over a sign. Becker's butcher shop. 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