How old is the wiggles show

Tsehay Hawkins, 15, is the second red Wiggle. Hawkins was born in Ethiopia and adopted by an Australian family. She is a Latin dance champion.

Evie Ferris, a corps de ballet dancer with the Australian Ballet, is the second blue Wiggle and wears blue ballet shoes. Kelly Hamilton, 45, is the second yellow Wiggle alongside the band's first female member Emma. The fourth new cast member is second purple Wiggle John Pearce, 30, a former member of the music group Justice Crew. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.

The Big Red Car just got a bit crowded with twice as many Wiggles on board. Key points: There is a new member of the band for each of the four Wiggle colours The band says it is seeking to inspire a 'diverse audience' Anthony Field is the only remaining original Wiggle.

More on:. Top Stories Liberal backbenchers call for more ambitious emission reduction target. The founding member of The Wiggles, Field says he "will hang the skivvy up sooner or later" and has already considered who he might pass it on to. For the past 30 years, The Wiggles have travelled around the world, entertaining and educating children through song and dance.

Field has been a constant throughout that time and has seen much change, particularly in the delivery of their music. Recently The Wiggles reached over 1 billion music streams via services likes Spotify and Apple Music.

One of those reinvention strategies was the addition of Watkins as the Yellow Wiggle in What hasn't changed over the past three decades is the audience and Field's passion for making music and providing quality education.

The Wiggles' newly released song sends a strong message of unity, acceptance and respect. It includes performers from around the world and from different ethnic backgrounds, including Filipino-American actor Lou Diamond Phillips, Ngunnawal artist Richie Allan playing the didgeridoo, and Robert Rakete, a New Zealander of Maori descent.

The clip and sentiment in the song echo Field's vision to diversify the band's members. Last June, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Daily Mail reported that American viewers had criticised the band for its lack of diversity. While original Purple Wiggle Jeff Fatt is Chinese-Australian, when three of the initial line-up left in , they were replaced with white artists — a move Field said "wasn't a conscious decision".

He noted they had improved other aspects of diversity, by increasing their female representation with Watkins and, he joked, he was providing "age diversity" in the group. Lasting three decades in the entertainment industry is no mean feat for a musician, let alone a band.

The motivation for Field has always been the children and the feeling of "responsibility" he has to provide a broad exposure to music genres. He said the process of writing a song, deciding whether it's one to dance to or sing to, still "makes me tick", while the "buzz" of performing on stage is still as loud as ever.

Since then she has been hugely popular and had her own spinoff show. Her brief marriage to fellow Wiggle Lachlan Gillespie, which ended amicably in , also attracted media attention. In a video posted online he thanked Watkins for her work with the group, while former Yellow Wiggle Sam Moran congratulated her on "a very successful Yellow era. But the news was also received with some disappointment from parents and caregivers, who contemplated how to break the news to the show's younger fans.

My 9 month old granddaughter will be devastated to learn that Emma has left The Wiggles. Watkins will be replaced by newcomer year-old Tsehay Hawkins, who was born in Ethiopia and adopted by Australian parents as a baby.

In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Ms Hawkins, who grew up watching the show, said Watkins was an "inspiration" and that she hoped to build on the show's multiculturalism. In August, to celebrate their 30th anniversary, the Wiggles announced new additions that included Indigenous and Asian cast members.

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