Wallace and Gromit: Comedy duo set for Preston statue

Wallace and Gromit are set to have their own "cracking" statue in animator Nick Park's home of Preston.

The comedy duo will be sculpted in a bid to draw more visitors to the Lancashire city as Covid rules ease. Four-time Oscar winner Mr Park said: "It is such a great honour for me, as a proud Prestonian, to see my characters Wallace and Gromit cast in bronze and given pride of place in my hometown."Inspired by scenes from The Wrong Trousers film, it features the pair next to a bench and will go up outside Preston Markets.

It was designed by Mr Park and Bristol's Aardman studios with Preston sculptor Peter Hodgkinson, who has previously made statues of the city's late football legend Sir Tom Finney and artist LS Lowry.Nick Park pictured with the late actor Peter Sallis, who originally voiced Wallace The piece is being made at the Castle Fine Arts Foundry in Wales, will be funded from the government's £3.6 billion towns fund.John Chesworth, chairman of the Preston Towns Fund Board, said: "Nick is one of our most famous living Prestonians and it's great that we can celebrate his achievements with this new sculpture."image copyrightThe Wallace and Gromit franchise has won three Oscars for The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

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Cracking toast, Gromit!

لماذا لا يتحرك الغرب بجدية تجاه النازيون الصهاينة الذين كونوهم ويدعموهم بحجة أنهم تعرضوا للإضطهاد من الألمان ما يفعله الصهاينة هو النازيه القتل والتعذيب والتهجير والإرهاب وسلب الأراضي والبيوت والأحياء السكنية بكاملها ترحيل شعب بلد بأكمله وترهيبهم وقتل الأطفال فماذا يسمون هذا

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He drinks tea. Many tea bags are made from cotton. A very long time ago, black people used to pick cotton. This statue is therefore racist and anti-lgbt as he fancies women and is happy being the man he was born to become. Bloody hell, I'm not even trying to find fault🤣

woodg31 Hope nobody pulls it down….

It will be racist; torn down as does not reflect the local foreigners community. They will replace it by George Floyd's statue to reflect diversity. Boris 'That's the spirit; now we are united'.

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