Trivia

• The actors inside the costumes have to remove their heads every ten minutes due to carbon dioxide build up.
• Noo-noo is big enough to carry a small man inside who operates it via a television monitor.
• The Sun Baby is Jessica Smith from Edinbridge in Kent.
• Filming takes 10 hours a day, with an hour for lunch.
• The Teletubbies costumes are made of Babygro fabric that can take up to eight hours to refluff after washing.
• The characters are huge. Dipsy is nearly ten feet tall (with hat).
• To disguise this, everything else on the set is huge too. The rabbits are Flemish and British giants which can grow up to two stone in weight.
• Midlands couple Jagdish and Kamlesh Sohpal named their new baby Laa-Laa on the advice of their two year old daughter Geeta.
• A mother who couldn't find a set of Teletubbies for her two-year old daughter had them tattooed on her bottom.
• Nikky Smedley landed the part of Laa-Laa by pretending to be a table at the audition.