We not too long ago found that the person who once starred as the sun baby in The Teletubbies is pregnant (cue: us feeling historic) – and now, pals, now we have extra enjoyable (and barely weird) details for you in regards to the hit youngsters’s TV present.
If you keep in mind the long-lasting present, chances are high you recall the rabbits that appeared between scenes. These had been Flemish big rabbits, John Simmit who performed Dispy beforehand advised HuffPost UK. “I think that was Anne’s way of changing the perspective and making us look small,” he said.
Makes sense, proper? But what actually boggled my mind was the truth that, apparently, some scenes needed to be re-taken and re-shot as a result of the rabbits had been roughly continually humping.
Yep. The big rabbits had been “notorious for breeding on set due to not being spayed and neutered, and several scenes had to be re-filmed due to them being very intimate on camera,” the Teletubbies Wiki says.
The phrase “at it like rabbits” stands up. “Rabbits are receptive to mating about 14 of every 16 days,” according to the MSD veterinary manual.Whew.
Huh!?
I do know. And whereas I’ve you, listed here are another details that turned my thoughts to Tubby custard.
First of all, THERE ARE SEATS IN THOSE COSTUMES – all so the individuals inside them may sit down for a relaxation between takes.
The six to ten-foot costumes took a whole lot of heft to handle. “Running around in a three-stone and eight-foot-tall bright green costume in the summer is not fun,” Simmit told HuffPost UK.
“You had to roll up and down hills, squat, jump around and hug – you had to make it look like it was fun when in reality it was a massive workout,” he added.
Additionally, the tubby custard the Teletubbies chowed down on was really mashed potato, according to NME.
And final however removed from least: the unique Tinky Winky left the series in 1997 as a result of his “interpretation of the role was not acceptable,” The Independent reported.
He suspected his voice could have been a difficulty. “The other Teletubbies use their own voices, but mine was dubbed over. At first, they asked me to do a high voice and then they changed their minds just before we started filming,” he shared.
At the time a BBC spokesperson may neither verify nor deny that Tinky Winky – or the person contained in the costume – had been changed. “We are not allowed to say,” they stated. “As far as we are concerned they are real.”
Sex, sweat, and scandals? Time for a Tubby tell-all, I feel.
