Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga & Kermit at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

The couple sharing a kiss upon arrival.

Lady Gaga (born Stefani Germanotta in 1986) is an American recording artist. She has recently recorded a holiday special with the Muppets, set to air in November 2013, and will make a cameo appearance in Muppets Most Wanted.

She took Kermit the Frog as her date to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. In an interview with Perez Hilton, Miss Piggy dismissed the concept of them dating, saying that "No, no I don't talk about lies. I talk about truth."

In 2010, The Monster Ball Tour featured creations by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

She also made headlines wearing a top made entirely of plush Kermit the Frogs by Jean Charles de Castelbajac on German television. She wore the outfit as a statement against wearing fur as it "looked like a bunch of dead Muppets".

Jason Segel and Nick Stoller had originally written a cameo for her in The Muppets. It was reported that Lady Gaga would make her first big screen appearance in the 2011 film and was going to be facing off against Miss Piggy in a dance-off. However, when director James Bobin was forced to bring the length of the film down to 98 minutes, Gaga's sequence was dropped from the film. The Muppets producer Clint Morris said:

“Stefani Germanotta's [aka Lady Gaga] big moment from the film was cut. With her entourage, including Ed Helms, Eric Stonestreet and John Krasinski, Gaga would have gone head-to-head with Miss Piggy in a sequence. Rumor has it Madonna's "Vogue" was somehow involved (which makes sense considering Piggy is the editor of Paris Vogue magazine in the film). Guessing Gaga, who judging from the smooch she shared with Kermit at the 2009 Video Music Awards is a big Muppets fan, is crushed she got the scissors treatment.”

Gaga does not appear in the finished movie. It is unknown if she ever filmed the scene, or if her scene was cut earlier in production.

On March 28, 2011, Gaga's 25th birthday, Ellen DeGeneres called the artist from her daily talk show, The Ellen Degeneres Show, to wish her a happy birthday. During the call, Ellen presented a birthday cake to the singer, commemorating a number of famous outfits that the artist wore throughout her young career, including a Kermit the Frog face, facing the audience.

Lady Gaga in her Kermit dress

Lady Gaga in an Animal-inspired dress

Ellen's birthday cake for Lady Gaga, including Kermit's face

References

• On November 23, 2010, Sesame Workshop launched a viral marketing campaign on Facebook and YouTube called "Cookie Monster should host Saturday Night Live!" In the video, Cookie Monster auditions for the job by putting on an entire show in a short amount of time. For the musical guest, he parodies Lady Gaga playing the piano singing "Cookie Face" in a dress made out of cookies.
• When "C is for Cookie" began playing at Toy Fair 2011, the Hasbro representative guessed that it was "something by Lady Gaga". (YouTube)
• In the 2012 book The Twelve Days of a Muppet Christmas (and a Chicken in a Pine Tree), one of the ringtones shown on Miss Piggy's phone is "Lady Moi-Moi," a reference to Lady Gaga.

External links

• People "Kermit the Frog: I'm Not Dating Lady Gaga" September 17, 2009
• Entertainment Weekly "VMAs 2009: Best/Worst Moments"
• Official site
• IMDb