The Chrysalis Theatre, Milton Keynes' pantomime Peter Pan. The production ended prematurely due to the worsening COVID-19 conditions. In September 2022, Mr Blobby appeared on The Big Breakfast and rode a mechanical bull. In November 2022, Mr Blobby appeared the celebrity call centre segment of Children in Need 2022. In January 2023, Mr Blobby appeared on This Morning again, this time during a segment with Alice Beer where she discussed the eBay auction in which an unused original Mr Blobby costume had reached over £61,000. In February 2023, Mr Blobby made a guest appearance on ITV’s ice-skating game show, Dancing on Ice. Criticism In March 1994, Elizabeth Kolbert of The New York Times wrote: "Mr Blobby's rise to stardom has provoked anguished commentaries about just what he stands for... Some commentators have called him a metaphor for a nation gone soft in the head. Others have seen him as proof of Britain's deep-seated attraction to trash." A Sun article published the previous month had reported that Blobby reduced a young girl to tears after throwing her birthday cake onto the floor during a show in Luton, causing the girl's father to mount the stage and assault Blobby. Neville Crumpton, who owns the rights to the character, said: "If the press can knock him, they'll knock him whenever they can." A trio of failed Mr Blobby theme parks also resulted in considerable negative press and scandal. On a 1996 episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Bob Mortimer described Blobby as a "pink, spotty, rubber twat", to applause from the audience and other guests. Addressing the character's popularity, former longtime BBC employee Michael Parkinson in 2007 confessed that he "really didn't get it", and found Blobby "far from amusing". In February 2009, Cole Moreton of The Independent featured Blobby in a recounting of the "10 most irritating television characters", asking: "Was there something in the water? Did the nation really once fall about laughing at the clumsy antics of a bloke in a big pink rubber costume with yellow blobs all over it?" In a 2016 article, Stuart Heritage of The Guardian said that Blobby "became a sensation immediately", but then devolved into a "widely despised irritant". Music career Mr Blobby's 1993 Christmas release "Mr Blobby", which topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks, is regarded by many as the worst single, and indeed, song, of all time. It beat Meat