He’s been a prehistoric bird in Pan and a killer plant in Little Shop of Horrors. But there’s one role puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew will never escape Housed in a musty-smelling former temperance hall in a ...

Rainbow puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew has lifted the lid on the dark side of the classic children's TV show in a new tell-all book. Rainbow launched in 1972 and ran for 25 years, with Bungle the teddy bear ...

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Rainbow’s Zippy is backing calls to liberate Orville and Emu – and put them in a museum. We told yesterday how the bird puppets are at the centre of a legal battle, after the widows of telly legends ...

The iconic Zippy, characters from The Furchester Hotel, Gremlins, and the talent behind the puppets of Netflix’s Dark Crystal Age of Resistance, The Seed of Chucky, and the Muppet films will be coming ...

Philpott with a foxy friend of Bandicoot, one of her best-loved creations and a feature of her live shows (National Puppetry Archive) From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The ...

COMIC Josh Widdicombe has revealed his mother-in-law created the iconic Rainbow telly puppet Zippy. The funnyman, 38, told of the family link with the much-loved character via wife Rose, whom he ...

The bird puppets are at the centre of a legal battle and are “trapped in captivity” but the man behind Zippy has joined calls for them to be put on display for the public. Seven months on, both are ...

Famous puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew, beloved as Zippy from Rainbow, has been announced as one of the acts coming to East Yorkshire at this year's Beverley Puppet Festival. The festival, now in its 10th ...

Roy Skelton, the voice of the Daleks and George and Zippy from Rainbow, has died aged 79. He brought Doctor Who's arch-enemies to life between 1967 and 1988, and also provided voices for the Cybermen.

Someone recently sent me a YouTube clip entitled ‘Zippy being An Asshole For Five Minutes’. It was sent by a stranger on social media. They didn’t explain why they’d sent it but I’m glad they did.