Grab your BFFs, it's Galentine's Day! Amy Poehler's Parks and Recreation character, Leslie Knope, invented the holiday in 2010 to celebrate sisterhood one day before Valentine's Day every February - and fans are still toasting their gal pals annually.

Galentine's Day was originally introduced by the fictional character Leslie Knope, played by Amy Poehler, in a “Parks and Recreation” episode airing in 2010. The “holiday” eventually made its way into the real world, and has become increasingly popular with time.

The Galentine's Day tradition was started almost a decade ago by Leslie Knope, the main character in the US sitcom Parks and Recreation as a chance for the female characters in the programme to get together and celebrate "ovaries before brovaries".