Greg Page is lastly disproving a decades-long rumour that numerous Australians still think regarding his past, and it’s obtained absolutely nothing to do with The Wiggles.

The misconception is so usual that individuals also quit him in public in some cases to inquire about it, leaving Page to “set them straight”.

“People think I was in The Cockroaches, but I actually wasn’t,” he informs 9honey Celebrity.

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“Sometimes people go, ‘I saw you and The Cockroaches at the pub way back,’ and I’ll go, ‘Oh yeah’. But then other times, I’ll set them straight and say, ‘Look, I actually wasn’t part of The Cockroaches.'”

The Cockroaches were an ’80s Aussie bar rock band comprised of 6 core participants; siblings Paul, John, and Anthony Field, with Tony Henry, Joseph Hallion and Jeff Fatt.

Though 2 original Wiggles remained in the team, neither of them were Page.

Rather, Page was a big follower of the band throughout his senior high school years and really related to deal with them after he finished.

“I ended up doing work experience for them and then I got a job with them when I left school and I was going to uni,” he exposes.

“I started out as their roadie [and] I appeared with them onstage on The Midday Show on Channel 9 a couple of times. I filled in for Anthony when he couldn’t make it … but I wasn’t ever officially in The Cockroaches.”

Working as a roadie, Page learnt more about the band participants well and expanded close with Anthony Field, that urged Page to research very early childhood years education and learning at Macquarie University.

They fulfilled Murray Cook there and with Jeff Fatt, an additional participant of The Cockroaches, they took place to begin The Wiggles.

“The perception is that The Cockroaches became The Wiggles, which isn’t the case,” Page claims.

“There was a strong connection; Anthony’s brother John, who wrote the songs for The Cockroaches, wrote a lot of our songs for The Wiggles. 

“The drummer from The Cockroaches used a great deal of our documents, Anthony’s sibling Paul wound up being our basic supervisor with The Wiggles. There’s a great deal of links.”

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The Wiggles is what he’s understood in the meantime and Page still obtains come by Aussies of any ages that acknowledge him as ‘the man in the yellow skivvy’ from their childhood years.

He’s just ever before had one adverse experience being acknowledged in public.

“One time in Darwin we [The Wiggles] mosted likely to McDonald’s and these adolescent young boys really did not actually understand exactly how to respond, so they began tossing chips at us,” he laughs.

It’s crazy to think that what was supposed to be a temporary music project in the early 90s has become such a quintessential part of what it means to ‘grow up Aussie’.

So many people told Page, Field, Cook and Fatt that the band “was never ever mosting likely to function”, yet kids around the country are still raised on their songs 30 years on.

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The Wiggles: Then and now

“We thought what we were doing would certainly function, provided what we learnt more about kids and exactly how they believe and exactly how they discover,” Page says now.

“So we stayed with it and we had no concept the length of time it was mosting likely to choose, not to mention the truth that as soon as I retired and left the team, someone else can be available in.”

Page formally relinquished The Wiggles in November 2006, leading the way for Sam Moran to take control of as the Yellow Wiggle, adhered to by Emma Watkins in 2013.

Now there are 8 Wiggles, consisting of participants of the original schedule and a varied team of brand-new actors participants.

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Though Page never ever thought of the band he aided begin with “4 companions” in the ’90s would go through so many different iterations, he couldn’t be more proud of what The Wiggles represents today.

“It was simply 4 companions, that’s exactly how it started,” he laughs.

“Over the years though, we realised that in addition to Jeff with his Chinese heritage, there had not been a good deal of variety there, especially with ladies. 

“It wasn’t really on the radar to think about those things … we were four guys from Sydney and we knew nothing, we just did it and it evolved along the way. It’s still evolving today.”

These days he enjoys to see The Wiggles expand and advance from afar while he concentrates on his very own interest task, Heart of the Nation.

Page developed the charity devoted to enhancing the survival price from unexpected heart attack (SCA) in Australia after enduring a SCA onstage at a get-together show in 2020.

“I was incredibly fortunate that I collapsed in public and that there were people around to see me collapse,” he formerly informed 9honey.

“They put their hands up, they said, ‘Yep, I’m going to try and save this guy’s life’. And they did.”