Peppa Pig will have a brand new piglet to play with come the summer, with news that the beloved character is to welcome a new sibling to the family. Morwenna Banks, who voices the character of Mummy Pig in the global hit cartoon,

Mummy Pig, known for doing “very important work” on her computer, and Daddy Pig, who “takes big numbers, transmutes them and calculates their load-bearing tangents,” are already proud parents to Peppa, four, and George, two.

Peppa Pig ’s mother is pregnant with her third piglet. The long-running animated series will be forever changed in an episode that will premiere – appropriately – on Mother’s Day (30 March).