QUIRKY WORLD ... Pink with pleasure: Muppet gets museum’s top award

USA: A prestigious award from the Brooklyn Museum honours women who have made outstanding contributions in their fields — and this year’s surprise honouree is... Miss Piggy.

The Muppets character joins a distinguished list of recipients of the Sackler Centre First Awards. They include theatre director Julie Taymor and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

The Daily Beast recently called Miss Piggy “the Gloria Steinem of the Muppet world”. She’ll be interviewed at the ceremony on June 4 by the feminist herself.