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“I had never heard anything, so it is a complete coincidence, albeit a very, very strange one,” Charlie Brooker told BuzzFeed News.

Charlie Brooker was already a national newspaper columnist, a TV presenter, and the writer/creator of a cult show. But since Sunday night, thanks to #PigGate, he can now add modern-day Nostradamus to the list.

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Almost immediately after allegations broke that David Cameron had put a "private part" of his body into a dead pig while at university (a claim Downing Street won't discuss), people began noting the story's similarities with a 2011 episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror in which a fictional British prime minister (played by Rory Kinnear) is blackmailed into having sex with a pig live on national television after a princess is kidnapped.

Brooker said he wasn't thinking of Cameron while writing the show. “I don’t think we say which party Michael Callow, our fictional PM, was from. It was quite a sympathetic portrayal of him in the episode.”

Brooker said he wasn't thinking of Cameron while writing the show. “I don’t think we say which party Michael Callow, our fictional PM, was from. It was quite a sympathetic portrayal of him in the episode.”