Emma Watkins

**Emma Olivia Watkins** (born September 21, 1989) was a former yellow Wiggle.

**History with The Wiggles**

In December 1996, she and her sister Hayleyattended a Wiggles concert at the Seymour Centre. She was seven years old at the time. This same concert was released on VHS the next year, Wiggledance!. She can be spotted dancing in the audience during Get Ready To Wiggle.

Emma began performing with the Wiggles in 2010, as Fairy Larissa in Dorothy the Dinosaur concerts and videos. She later went on to play Wags the Dog and Dorothy the Dinosaur, and be a Wiggly Dancer in Wiggles tours by 2011. She voiced Dorothy during PBS Kids Sprout her voice was heard in Dino-Mite Valentines Day Promo.

In May 2012, it was announced that she would replace Greg Page as the yellow Wiggle in 2013.

As a Wiggle, she wears a wig, with a bow in it and is tied into pigtails. Bows would become her motif and a major part of her own brand. She primarily sings and plays the drums, but can also play some guitar.

In June 2015, her own show Emma! premiered on ABC Kids, with a tie-in album, DVD and tour.

On October 18, 2021 Emma announced her retirement from The Wiggles to focus on pursuing her passion as a PhD.

## Personal Life

In March 2015 she and purple Wiggle Lachlan Gillespie announced they had been in a relationship for about two years. In May of that year, she and Lachy got engaged, and married in April 2016. In August 2018, She and Lachy announced they were getting a divorce.

In April 2021 she and Oliver Brian got engaged.

**Trivia**

* "Brush Your Pet's Hair" is the first Wiggles song Emma ever wrote.
* Emma auditioned for the musicals Wicked, The Lion King and Hairspray before she auditioned for The Wiggles.
* She is the second shortest of all of the Wiggles shortest being Kylie who only appeared in 2009.
* She along with the other new-gen Wiggles Lachy and Simon all toured with both previous generations (Greg-era and Sam-era original Wiggles) in addition to their own.
* When in shows, Emma uses a wig (as her hair is in curls)
* Emma wears glasses in real life and when she was a Wiggle, she wears contacts though she wore glasses during the song "I Got My Glasses On" as well as a number of episodes from the TV series since 2013.
* Emma and Anthony switched between the drums in videos.
* Emma knows lots of different Sign Languages, mainly AUSLAN - Australian Sign Language.
* Emma can speak French fluently.
* She loves to dance ballet.
* Emma usually wears a pigtail hairstyle, but in some videos such as Taking Off!, Pumpkin Face and Wiggle House, she wears a bun hairstyle as the songs take place in the United Kingdom.
* She is one of the Wiggles (along with Greg, Jeff and Sam) who has played all three main instruments.
* She was a popular girl Wiggle because she was the first female Wiggle of the core group (first female Wiggle was Anni of The Taiwanese Wiggles).
* She was the only Wiggle besides Lachy that wasn't an understudy before becoming an official Wiggle.
* During shows, she was often presented with custom bows made by fans.
* She has her own set of vehicles including a car called The Bow Mobile and a plane.
* A lot of times during concerts, her belt broke sometimes.
* She was the youngest Wiggle up until Fruit Salad TV.
	+ Emma was also the only female member of the Wiggles.
	+ She wears a headband.
	+ She got her hairdo when styling it and she didn’t have enough time to dry it.
	+ According to Emma's Missing Bow, she was the second yellow Wiggle to sometimes be allergic to the smell of flowers, after Greg according to Bubbles.