Heartfelt tribute to DJ Jo's moggy

Radio host shows off new celeb craze of getting pets remade in felt

- JOHN SIDDLE

JO Whiley is the latest celebrity to join an eccentric craze of having pets immortalized as felt models.

The Radio 1 DJ, 55, paid £160 each for a replica of her cat GinGin, who died last year, and her puppy Django, who is still “alive and kicking”.

The six-inch life-like models, which take three days each to make, are created using needle felting.

Comic David Walliams, 49, TV psychic Sally Morgan, 69, and Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson, 62, are among other big names to have their pets turned into the mini artworks.