Big Breakfast Zig and Zag's backstage secrets – Bob Geldof link to 'puppet feud'

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X Factor's Simon Cowell, Zig and Zag were unstoppable.READ NEXT: Denise Van Outen flirts with Love Island's Davide as she says he is 'nervous' around herThey even made a return to our screens recently for a cameo in The Big Breakfast reboot – but will they return for good?After Zig and Zag's surprise appearance, Daily Star decided to take a closer look at Zig and Zag behind the scenes.Over five years before Zig and Zag burst onto our TV screens on The Big Breakfast, the puppet duo already had a huge following in Ireland.The brothers made their debut in 1987 on RTE's Dempsey's Den – and became so popular that, in 1989, they won the TV Personality Of The Year Award.Zig and Zag were brought to life by puppeteers Mick O'Hara and Ciaran Morrison and remained on The Den until 1993, after a very famous star heard them on the radio and brought them to the UK.Boomtown Rats singer and Live Aid organiser Sir Bob Geldof was responsible for bringing Zig and Zag to the UK to appear on The Big Breakfast.Speaking to Chris Moyles on Radio X, Bob confirmed he was the person behind their introduction to the Channel 4 show, saying: "It was me."He also called their success one of his "most major achievements", with the duo going on to cause mayhem live on air alongside DJ Chris Evans in a segment called The Crunch.Speaking about the moment he first heard of Zig and Zag, he added: "Of course, they’re Irish, I mean those of you of a certain vintage – ie your vintage, Moyles – will remember them, but where I heard them was driving in the car in Dublin, on the radio. "Now it’s probably only in Ireland that you will get puppets on the radio, because it could be anything!"Bob also revealed that the first time he met puppeteers Mick and Ciaran,.