{"id":395924,"date":"2026-01-29T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395924\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:36:07","slug":"why-zootopia-is-called-zootropolis-in-europe-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395924\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Zootopia Is Called Zootropolis in Europe, United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1405144\/hello-kitty-is-not-a-cat-and-were-not-ok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fans were left purrrrrfectly confused<\/a> after this revelation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello Kitty is not a cat,\u201d Jill Cook\u2014an executive at Sanrio, the company behind the character\u2014explained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/news\/hello-kitty-facts-rcna162578?taid=6699e014e5a1b60001c7827b&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem_manual&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Today<\/a> in July 2024. \u201cShe\u2019s actually a little girl born and raised in the suburbs of London. She has a mom and dad and a twin sister Mimmy who\u2019s also her best friend. She enjoys baking cookies and making new friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the news may have surprised some, Cook wasn\u2019t the first to share this insight. As a matter of fact, Christine R. Yano\u2014a professor of anthropology who penned the book Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty&#8217;s Trek Across the Pacific\u2014had also previously confirmed that Hello Kitty isn\u2019t a feline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello Kitty is not a cat,\u201d she told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/miranda\/la-et-cam-hello-kitty-in-los-angeles-not-a-cat-20140826-column.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> in 2014. \u201cShe\u2019s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She\u2019s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it\u2019s called Charmmy Kitty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other fun facts about Hello Kitty? According to Sanrio, she is five apples tall, weighs three apples, was born on November 1 (making her a Scorpio) and dreams of being a pianist or poet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many fans were left purrrrrfectly confused after this revelation. \u201cHello Kitty is not a cat,\u201d Jill Cook\u2014an executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-395924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}