‘Replacing the legendary Peter Sallis in Wallace and Gromit was very daunting’

Ben Whitehead has taken on the role of Wallace (Picture: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock)Wallace and Gromit are back this Christmas with their first film in 1t years.The cheese-obsessed inventor and his sidekick return to the BBC in Vengeance Most Fowl, which marks the first full length project without the late Peter Sallis.The veteran actor, who died aged 96 in 2017, voiced first voiced the character in 1989’s A Grand Day Out, reprising the role in 1993’s The Wrong Trousers and A Close