Newzoids: Katie Hopkins, Kim Kardashian and Benedict Cumberbatch among stars to be savaged in puppet satire

 
Flash the cash: Katie Hopkins reimagined as a puppet (Picture: ITV)
Emma Powell8 April 2015
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Opinionated columnist Katie Hopkins has been reimagined as a puppet ahead of her ‘debut’ on new ITV satire, Newzoids.

The Celebrity Big Brother finalist can be seen in a leopard print dress with heels, blue eye shadow, red lips and flashing a wad of £10 notes in newly released pictures.

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch - sporting an unusually elongated face - is also set to be lampooned alongside Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi.

TV duo Ant and Dec have been recreated as animated caricatures, as well as a rather frightening looking Mary Berry and her Great British Bake Off co-host Paul Hollywood, while The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles' puppets can be seen feeding a corgi with a bottle of Champagne.

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The new show will see more than 70 puppets voiced by impressionists Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson like it’s predecessor Spitting Image, which ran from 1984 to 1996.

Viewers are being told to “imagine a world where David Cameron and Nick Clegg battle it out on Jeremy Kyle, where Ed Miliband joins Ant and Dec on I’m A Catastrophe…Get Me Out Of Here, and where Professor Brian Cox finds an extraordinary new planet in the solar system – Kim Kardashian’s backside.”

Other stars in the firing line include One Direction's Harry Styles, Andy Murray, Wayne Rooney, Prince Harry, Russell Brand, Beyonce and Simon Cowell.

The six-part series of Newzoids launches on Wednesday 15, April at 9pm on ITV.

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