Miss Piggy’s Prince Turned into a Frog
In SHOCKING news the famous Muppets duo announced on social media via a joint statement that they have taken the decision to separate after decades of on-screen romance.
Muppets fans will recall that the pair have spent many years contemplating marriage and in The Muppets Take Manhattan they walked down the aisle as part of a Broadway show in which Piggy hoped to trick Kermit into marrying her for real, although later she accepted that they had not formally married. In 2014 Miss Piggy finally got to wear a wonderful Vivienne Westwood wedding gown in Muppets Most Wanted but it remained uncertain whether Kermit had still managed to dodge that ultimate commitment.
Whether or not you are married when a relationship breaks down has a vast effect on which laws apply to the ownership of property within the relationship. Married couples have a claim on each others’ assets notwithstanding in whose name those assets are legally held (for example pensions, savings or circumstances where the marital home is only registered in one spouse’s name) whereas unmarried couples have no such claim; an unmarried ex-partner has no claim on the other’s house unless they bring a complicated (and costly) trust of land claim.
Perhaps this is why Miss Piggy was so keen over the years for Kermit to commit? Or maybe Piggy is wealthier than Kermit through years of sponsorship deals and thriftiness (unlikely, considering her extensive glamorous wardrobe) and so she may have unwittingly dodged being on the receiving end of marital financial claims? Should Miss Piggy have prepared a ‘Pre-Mup’ before trying to pin Kermit down?
Rumours are that the breakup is a publicity stunt in advance of Miss Piggy’s new TV show, but Kermit has already announced via Twitter that he is seeing someone else so if there are joint assets to divide I’ll bet it will get messy…
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