The PG Tips chimps were loved by the public and helped make the tea brand one of the UK's most popular. But while the nation laughed, were the animals' lives being damaged? Choppers the chimpanzee - ...

Choppers - the last of the PG Tips chimps - has sadly died at the age of 48. The chimpanzee, based at Twycross Zoo in Warwickshire, was suffering from heart and liver failure and had to be put to ...

Louis the chimpanzee, who won the nation's hearts as the iconic star of PG Tips TV ads, has died aged 37. The famous primate died at Twycross Zoo in Warwickshire on Monday after battling a short ...

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 ...

They were the biggest animal stars of their day, earning the equivalent of £2,000 a week. Millions remember the chimps of the PG Tips adverts, delicately sipping tea out of china cups and chatting to ...

Channel 5 will delve into the world of the PG Tips chimps in a new documentary. The Secrets of the Tea Chimps will look at the lives of the stars of the famous ads, and include interviews from their ...

It was a chimpanzee beloved by Brits throughout the 1970s as it became the star of the PG Tips advert. And now the life story of Choppers, a Western Chimpanzee, that played Grandmother Ada Lott in the ...

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 ...

Choppers, the last of the original PG Tips chimpanzees died at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire at the age of 48. First broadcast on TV in 1971, Choppers wore a grey wig to play the old 'lady' Ada in ...