--- title: Miss Piggy Is 'Playing the Field' After Breakup With Kermit description: "There is someone new every night.” canonical: https://time.com/4037426/miss-piggy-breakup-interview/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-16T21:02:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:06.504Z og:title: Miss Piggy Is 'Playing the Field' After Breakup With Kermit og:description: "There is someone new every night” og:url: https://time.com/4037426/miss-piggy-breakup-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b9714ec9967b6c8/698863ee3c16394b85459c19/miss-piggy1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Miss PIggy at Brooklyn Museum's Sackler Center First Awards in New York City on June 4, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Miss Piggy Is 'Playing the Field' After Breakup With Kermit twitter:description: "There is someone new every night” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b9714ec9967b6c8/698863ee3c16394b85459c19/miss-piggy1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Miss Piggy Is 'Playing the Field' After Breaking Up With Kermit > Sponsored content. 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Hollywood has a heartache, and many iconic couples are calling it quits this summer. Pop, rock and country artists aren't safe ... not even puppets._ by [Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly Sep 16, 2015 9:02 PM UTC  Miss PIggy at Brooklyn Museum's Sackler Center First Awards in New York City on June 4, 2015. Miss PIggy at Brooklyn Museum's Sackler Center First Awards in New York City on June 4, 2015. Ilya S. Savenok—Getty Images by [Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly Sep 16, 2015 9:02 PM UTC Miss Piggy has totally, definitely, no-doubt-about-it moved on from her [public, nasty breakup with Kermit](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/04/muppets-kermit-piggy-split-break-up-tca). At least, that’s what the star of ABC’s upcoming _The Muppets_ tells _Good Morning America_ in the interview below. “First of all, I ended the relationship,” she clarifies right off the bat. “Look at me, look at me! Would you throw this away?” As for what she’s doing now without Kermit, she emphasizes that she has suitors lining up to date her. “I’m playing the field,” Miss Piggy explains. “There is someone new every night.” In fact, she’s been having potential suitors fill out an application form to date her, which means her latest beau [Josh Groban must have submitted a sterling app](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/08/muppets-josh-groban-guest-star-miss-piggy-love-interest). Still, the two have to be colleagues going forward as Piggy prepares for her talk show debut. When asked whether it’s strange for her to see Kermit across the conference room table or even miss the “twinkle in his eye,” Piggy says not at all. “That twinkle in his eye is due to the fact that he has no eyelids, okay?” she says, adding that she hasn’t given any thought to reconciling with the nicest frog in Hollywood: “I can’t really think about it right now while we’re in the middle of publicizing the breakup.” **Read More:** [**Miss Piggy: I Refuse to Give Up on Love**](http://time.com/4028204/miss-piggy-is-monogamy-over/) And though she continues to insist she’s moved on, Miss Piggy does reminisce about why she loved Kermit. “I mean, he’s a looker, that’s for sure,” she admits. “Those eyes, that body, and the supreme sense of self-confidence that frog has, just walking down the street completely naked.” Watch her interview below: _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/16/miss-piggy-breakup-kermit-good-morning-america) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ## Transcript Okay, it might be time to have a heart to heart with Hollywood. Is there something in the water? Because this summer is about to be remembered as the summer of celebrity breakups. This is actually, probably good news for devoted one direction fans. Former band member saying Malik is single again. Malik broke off his two year engagement to his Little Mix fiancee two weeks ago, leaving her devastated. This week also brought us the news of Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani's divorce after 13 years of marriage. The couple who met in 1995 when their bands, No Doubt and Bush, toured together said in a statement the decision was mutual and they will remain partners to jointly raise their three sons. In July Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton shocked Fans after announcing their split after four years of marriage. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner announced their separation in June, after ten years of marriage. Like Lambert and Shelton, they also dealt with a cheating scandal, what's being called Nanny Gate. I'd say we could look to Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog for the ideal Hollywood romance, but they just broke up, too. The couple posted matching Facebook statuses saying, in part, Our personal lives are now distinct and separate, and we'll be seeing other people, pigs, frogs, et al. Some suspect Kermit has spent too much time working on the muppet's new prime time show and it's thrown a wrench in the romance. Take a long nap big boy, you're gonna need your strength. 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