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'Secondly - and I think this is really quite important in our culture - is this whole idea of have a go and fail fast, as opposed to having to get it right the first time.' 'I think the two most important things about Daddy Pig is first that he can have a laugh at himself and get everyone else laughing,' he said. Ridings said that if he ever has grandchildren, he plans on sitting down to watch 'Peppa Pig' with them. He said that his daughter is a successful singer-songwriter and that his younger son is thinking of becoming an actor. 'I believe in warm family life and being really encouraging to your children,' he said. Ridings said that in all these years of recording, he could identify with certain qualities of Daddy Pig.

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'It's one of the main reasons I haven't done many TV interviews as Daddy Pig - I don't want to destroy the magic for children.' He identifies with Daddy Pig

'If someone recognizes my voice and asks if I can take a video of me, I tell them no but say I can do a voice recording,' he said. He said that early on in the show's history, he was out shopping for fruit with his daughter at the supermarket when a young admirer started tugging at her mother's dress, saying, 'Mummy, Mummy, I can hear Daddy Pig.' He said that instead of introducing himself as Daddy Pig, he said to the child, 'Well, I am very good friends with Daddy Pig, and if you close your eyes, he will come and say hello to you.' It makes my life very rich to be part of something that is so universally loved.' 'It's one of the most magical things about it - being able to leave little messages for 3-year-old people.

Ridings said that as the years went on, people started to recognize him as the voice of Daddy Pig and asked him to do voice messages for their children. He added that at parties with his son, who was 3 at the time, people asked Ridings to 'do a bit' of a Daddy Pig impersonation. Ridings said his daughter thought the show was 'great fun' when it aired.

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Ridings said Davies wanted to squeeze in recording the first series before Ridings traveled for work, 'so they booked the studio and we recorded the whole of the first series of just Daddy Pig.' 'I think everyone was taken by surprise with how popular it became,' he said. He recalled that when he would talk to people about his role, they would question the future success of a show about a family of pigs.