First pics of Spitting Image puppets from Charles and Camilla to Michael Gove

Meet the Duke and Duchess of puppets… Charles and Camilla are the latest of the rubbery royals joining the Spitting Image reboot.

Top Tories also get the treatment, with a cheeky likeness of Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove and a karate-kicking Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

Roger Law, who co-created the original show in 1984, is at the helm of the new series.

With an “uncompromising, fast-turnaround satirical take on global events”, it starts on BritBox from October 3.

From the showbiz world, Beyonce will be joined by Billie Eilish, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Harry Styles, Brad Pitt, Elton John and Gwyneth Paltrow, while TV’s Piers Morgan will also make an appearance.

All the puppets have been created during the pandemic by socially distanced teams of artists with the scripts being written by an army of satirists as close to transmission as possible.

Roger Law said: “Everything the team have done on the new Spitting Image shows, the caricatures, puppets and satirical gags have all been done in the public interest, as Boris might say, ‘Pro bono publico it’s time to come off furlough!'”

“The people have spoken and the puppets are oven ready. We’re going to take back control from the likes of Boris, Cummings, Trump, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.

“There will be tongue-lashings from our weather girl; Greta Thunberg, you’ll be knocked out by Tyson Fury and dazzled and amazed by Beyoncé and Herr Jürgen Klopp.”

He added: “This time Spitting Image is going global so we will be making world beating trade deals with North Korea and Belarus and if Gavin Williamson and Dominic Cummings finally get the sack, Spitting Image will give them a job.

“We have always employed strange people and I’m sure Dom, in particular, will be a great asset; he seems to dislike the establishment just as much as we do. And the message for the Keir Starmer ’s and Michel Barnier’s is… let’s get BritBox done.”

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