{"id":741969,"date":"2026-06-17T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/741969\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:06:09","slug":"cracking-sleaze-gromit-wallaces-long-suffering-canine-companion-to-tell-all-in-memoir-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/741969\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking sleaze, Gromit: Wallace\u2019s long-suffering canine companion to tell all in memoir | Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Gromit, the canine star of the Wallace and Gromit animations, is \u201cbreaking his silence\u201d and writing a memoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">After \u201cbottling everything up for a long time\u201d, the moment has come for him to \u201cspill the beans\u201d, according to publisher Ebury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Grand: The Autobiography of Gromit will unveil his \u201cnever-before-told\u201d life story, including such details as \u201cwhat it\u2019s like to wear Techno Trousers, his true feelings about gnomes, and what the moon tastes like\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The book is scheduled to be published in October and will mark the first time audiences have heard from Gromit himself, who has no dialogue in the beloved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/aardman\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aardman<\/a> animations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI\u2019m very excited to announce that Wallace\u2019s faithful, and rather more intelligent, pooch Gromit, has decided to break silence, put pen to paper, paw to keyboard and share with the world some of his innermost thoughts and feelings,\u201d said creator Nick Park. \u201cHe tells of their life and loves, their affections and afflictions, their pet hates and fur-vent passions, and his book promises to be a deep dish of doggy nuggets and wisdom to chew on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The publisher\u2019s author biography describes Gromit as a talented knitter, baker, and gardener. \u201cHe has twice received awards for his marrows in competition. Although he is well-read, this is his first book. He would like you to know that he is a good dog.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gromit, the canine star of the Wallace and Gromit animations, is \u201cbreaking his silence\u201d and writing a memoir.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-741969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}