Life story of 'beloved' PG Tips tea-drinking chimp revealed

Written By Lesley Parsons

The life story of the “beloved” chimpanzee star of a series of PG Tips adverts in the 1970s has been revealed in a new study.

Choppers, a Western Chimpanzee, played Grandmother Ada Lott in the well-known advertisements when she was still a juvenile.

She had been rescued from poachers in Sierra Leone at just six weeks old, before being brought to the UK.

Lesley Parsons
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