Tsehay Hawkins: Yellow Wiggle on her career with the Wiggles, the Sound System Dance Party coming to Tauranga

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

The Wiggles have been going strong for over three decades, and their lineup has changed a bit along the way.

Going from four to eight, the current lineup includes the original Blue Wiggle, Anthony Field, alongside a cast of newer faces: Tsehay Hawkins, Lachy Gillespie, Simon Pryce, Evie Ferris, John Pearce, Caterina Mete, and Lucia Field.

Tsehay Hawkins joined the Wiggles at age 15, taking over from Emma Watkins as the Yellow Wiggle in 2021.

"That was a pretty, pretty surreal moment,” she told Jack Tame.

The Wiggles team is a pretty close-knit group, Hawkins revealed.

“Everyone’s friends, we’re all actually mates, so that makes it so much easier.”

“It doesn’t feel like work.”

The Wiggles are coming to New Zealand this summer, bringing their Sound System Dance Party to Christchurch and Mount Maunganui.

It’s our first-ever dedicated dance festival for toddlers, featuring reimagined dance versions of the classic hits, and Dorothy the Dinosaur on the turntables.

“She’s levelled up,” Hawkins said.

“She still does all the Wiggle stuff, but now we've got remixes of the OG Wiggles songs, but we've made it like, club vibes. We’ve got full house, techno, and that’s what we’re doing in January next year.”

“We're so stoked to be coming back.”

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