Move over, Peppa Pig! It’s time to make some room for Ms. Leopard. On Wednesday (Sept. 27), Hasbro announced that Billboard chart-topping superstar Katy Perry is set to join the Peppa Pig show in 2024.
The “Harleys In Hawaii” singer will voice a new character in an episode from a three-part Peppa Pig Wedding Party Special set to premiere next spring. Perry will voice a dressmaker named Ms. Leopard, who assists with the preparations for the first-ever Peppa Pig wedding. The union of Mr. Bull and Mrs. Crow was a surprise to everyone, but the whole community comes together to make it a memorable moment for the happy couple.
“We’re incredibly thrilled to have such an A-list talent join the family-fun adventures in Peppa Pig! As a loving parent and fan of Peppa herself, Katy Perry is a perfect fit to voice the character of Ms. Leopard,” said Olivier Dumont, president of Hasbro Entertainment. The new Peppa Pig role will mark Perry’s first voice performance since she returned as Smurfette in 2013’s The Smurfs 2.
According to the press release, all casting and filming for the Peppa Pig Wedding Party Special were contracted and completed before the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, and are compliant with SAG-AFTRA rules and conditions.
Perry gave birth to her first child — a daughter named Daisy Dove Bloom with actor Orlando Bloom — about a year and a half before she launched her successful Play Las Vegas residency. Daisy Dove arrived two days before the release of Smile (2020), her most recent studio album. In a recent interview on Good Morning America, Perry said, “I haven’t put any new material out since my darling Daisy. I think that I’m writing a lot and have written a lot from a place of love because I’m feeling so much of it — so much unconditional love, that love you never knew existed.”
Peppa Pig is a British preschool animated television series that has been airing for nearly 20 years across nine seasons in over 180 territories. Peppa Pig has released three studio albums — 2019’s My First Album, 2021’s Peppa’s Adventures: The Album and 2022’s Peppa’s Club: The Album — the first of which peaked at No. 79 on the U.K. album charts.
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This story originally appeared on Billboard
