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The Wiggles
[[Image:63423main wiggles wave.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Original Wiggles: Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt and Greg Page]]
'''The Wiggles''' are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney, New South Wales in 1991. Since 2013, the group members are ''The group are currently composed of [[Anthony Field]]'', '', [[Lachlan Gillespie]]'', '', [[Simon Pryce]]'', and ''[[Emma Wat[[Tsehay Hawkins]]''. The original members were Field, ''[[Phillip Wilcher]]'', ''[[Murray Cook]]'', ''Wiggles were founded in 1991 by Field, [[Murray Cook]], [[Jeff Fatt]], [[Greg Page]]'', and ''[[Jeff Fatt]]''[[Phillip Wilcher]]. Wilcher left the group after their first album. Page retired in 2006 due to ill health and was replaced by understudy ''[[Sam Moran]]'', but returned in 2012, replacing Moran. At the end of 2012, Page, Cook, and FattCook, Fatt and Page retired, and were replaced by Gillespie, Pryce, and [[Emma Watkins]]. Cook and Fatt retained their shareholding in the group and all three continued to have input into its creative and production aspects. Watkins departed the group in 2021, with Hawkins taking her place.

Field and Fatt were members of the Australian pop band The Cockroaches in the 1980s, and Cook was a member of several bands before meeting Field and Page at Macquarie University, where they were studying to become pre-school teachers. In 1991, Field was inspired to create an album of children's music based upon concepts of early childhood education, and enlisted Cook, Page, and Fatt to assist him. They began touring to promote the album, and became so successful, they quit their teaching jobs to perf(contracted; show full){{DEFAULTSORT:Wiggles, The}}
[[Category:2000s Australian television series]]
[[Category:Disney Channel shows]]
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1991]]
[[Category:Children's television series]]
[[Category:Children's musical groups]]
[[Category:Musical groups from Sydney]]
[[Category:English-language television programs]]