WALLACE and Gromit’s biggest mystery has been solved 35 years after the show’s debut on BBC.
The iconic pair are back on Christmas Day with the much anticipated Vengeance Most Fowl and fans finally have their biggest question answered.
Wallace & Gromit is a British stop-motion animated comedy series created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations.
The much loved show centres on Wallace, a funny, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his loyal, clever and human like beagle.
But where did Wallace’s cheese obsession come from?
It’s always been Wallace’s favourite food and he’s seen reading Cheese Holidays and Cheese Monthly magazines in A Grand Day Out.
It even helps make his decision to go somewhere cheese-related in the film and after considering Lancashire, Cheddar, Wensleydale, Philadelphia and Tesco‘s he chooses the moon.
It gives him dietary problems in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, whilst also bringing him back to life when he uses Stinking Bishop like smelling salts.
And when he ate too much cheese, he had problems sleeping in the Cracking Contraptions The Snoozatron short film.
Fans have been wondering for years why he’s such a fan of the stuff and finally we have an answer after 35 years of puzzlement.
In an interview with Metro, Nick said: ‘I went about it all the wrong way around.
“As a student, I wanted him to go to the moon with Gromit, but I couldn’t think of a reason.
“It was more in retrospect, because I did the first scene last and I just – “Of course, the moon’s made of cheese!
“And then it became an obsession in all of the films.”
Nick also revealed he wrote begging letters to Peter Kay to tempt him out of retirement for the new festive film Vengeance Most Fowl.
He said: “I actually wrote to him, I wrote a letter to him.
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“It was just to try and talk him into doing this again, you know, because of how wonderful he was in Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
“We told him that we’d expanded his character more in this one, he’s got a bigger role in this one.”
“He was just about to begin his giant tour as well, which we didn’t know at the time.
“So we did it while doing that, in between gigs.”
Peter’s return as Inspector Mackintosh in the upcoming Christmas film marks his official return to TV after four years absent from our screens.
He joins Ben Whitehead who voices eccentric inventor Wallace, along with Reece Shearsmith who plays Norbot, a smart gnome Wallace designed to do jobs around the house.
Lauren Patel also appears as PC Mukherjee, Chief Inspector Albert Mackintosh’s plucky young protégé.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl airs on Christmas Day at 6.10pm on BBC1.
