Peppa Pig has revealed some huge family news, making the happy announcement that Mummy Pig is pregnant.

In news that will delight millions of fans of the cartoon sensation, the big reveal came on ITV’s Good Morning Britain as showbiz correspondent Richard Arnold cut live to Mummy Pig on Thursday morning’s show.

Mummy Pig, whose job involves doing ‘very important work’ on her computer, and her husband Daddy Pig, who ‘takes big numbers, transmutes them and calculates their load-bearing tangents’, are already parents to Peppa, four, and George, two. 

Appearing from her house in ‘Peppatown’ Mummy Pig was about to spill her major news before being interrupted by her eldest Peppa, who excitedly told her ‘mummy, mummy they’re showing you on TV, come and see!’

After the brief interlude, Mummy Pig was ready with her news.

‘I’m excited to share that our family is getting even bigger because we’re having another baby!’ she told a delighted Richard, before the camera panned back to reveal her baby bump.

Peppa Pig has revealed some huge family news, making the happy announcement that Mummy Pig is pregnant

Mummy Pig and her husband Daddy Pig are already parents to Peppa, four, and George, two (pictured with Grandpa Pig and Granny Pig)

Mummy Pig also showed off her ultrasound as she revealed she was due in the summer. 

She did reveal that whilst she was ‘thrilled’ to be expecting, she was also feeling ‘a little overwhelmed at the thought of having three children under five running around.’ 

And Mummy Pig admitted that she had to tell Peppa straight away as the xx-year-old is ‘such a curious thing’, adding that ‘we’ve had the occasional wobble and worry but they’re mostly so excited.’

Hoping that her youngest will take after Peppa and George with a love of dinosaurs and muddy puddles, Mummy Pig was cagey when it came to name choices, simply insisting they would know the right name when they met their baby.

Mummy Pig will announce that she is pregnant during the final episode of the current series of Peppa Pig, which will air on the 30th March (Mother’s Day). Viewers can expect to see the new baby on screen in the Autumn. 

Peppa Pig first aired in 2004 and has since been broadcast in 180 territories and translated into 40 languages. It’s spawned books, toys and even two theme parks, with the global Peppa empire now worth over £1billion.

Creators Neville Astley and Mark Baker admitted they were worried the idea would never get off the ground, and that people were initially bored of the idea.

People in the pub would ask us, “What are you drawing?” We’d say, “A pig, called Peppa, it’s going to be big.” They’d lose interest and wander off’, explained Astley.

The pair created Peppa and her family working in each other’s houses or at the local pub.

In news that will delight millions of fans of the cartoon sensation, the big reveal came on ITV ‘s Good Morning Britain as showbiz correspondent Richard Arnold cut live to Mummy Pig 

‘I’m excited to share that our family is getting even bigger because we’re having another baby!’ she told a delighted Richard, before the camera panned back to reveal her baby bump

Mummy Pig admitted that she had to tell Peppa straight away as the xx-year-old is ‘such a curious thing’

They told the Radio Times they were inspired by 1970s cartoon classics including Roobarb and Pingu, after realising that children ‘like stories about animals’.

We’d made this little trailer for Peppa but hadn’t got anywhere,’ recalled Baker.

‘It’s very difficult to sell your own creative work. The good thing about Phil is he’s quite thick-skinned.’

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They soon found an energetic little girl, Lily Snowden-Fine, to voice Peppa – despite her being only four years-old and unable to read, instead repeating lines spoken by her mother.

When her family moved to Canada, the job went to Cecily Bloom, followed by current incumbent Harley Bird.

The creators explained that the secret to Peppa’s long-lasting appeal is the show’s simplicity, as well as ensuring the piglet is never the ʙuтт of the jokes.

‘We put a lot of work into making everything look as effortless as possible, said Baker.

‘We can laugh at the adults, but children don’t like it if we laugh at the children in the show.’

Whilst millions will be delighted by the latest news, there is one celeb who has been vocal about her disdain for the cartoon swine.

When asked recently what her two kids were watching these days, the actress said, ‘They’re very cool right now. It’s really weird. They’re into like Studio Ghibli,’ the Japanese animation studio founded by director Hayao Miyazaki.

She added they’re into other, ‘beautiful things where you’re like, oh, this is just lovely, after seven years of Peppa Pig. You know?’

‘You know that thing where you’re like, “Oh, you know, they’re so nice, should we have another one?” she added of the notion of having more kids.

‘And you think, oh, yeah, I could do the pregnancy. I could even do the birth. But I cannot watch any more Peppa Pig. It’s not going to happen,’ she insisted.