17:45, Thu, Apr 21, 2016 Updated: 18:10, Thu, Apr 21, 2016 Choppers, a 48-year-old chimp, was best known for her iconic role in the tea bag adverts that ran between the Sixties and the Eighties. But ...

Choppers, the last surviving chimpanzee from the PG Tips adverts, has died aged 48. Twycross Zoo said the remaining character from the "tea chimps" was put down by staff after she began to display ...

A chimpanzee who rose to national fame as the star of a series of PG Tips adverts broadcast throughout the 1970s and 1980s has passed away following a short illness at his home in Twycross Zoo, aged ...

The most famous chimpanzees in the UK are to be replaced by a younger model. The chimps have been used in commercials to advertise PG Tips tea since Christmas 1956, making this the longest-running ...

The last surviving chimpanzee from the PG Tips adverts has died aged 48. Twycross Zoo said that Choppers, the remaining character from the "tea chimps", was put down by staff after she began to ...