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What's next, Greg?

—Anthony's catchphrase

Anthony is the blue Wiggle and a founding member of The Wiggles. He is currently the only remaining original member, and he's the only member who's stuck around throughout every lineup change. He still remains friends with Greg, Murray and Jeff and has done reunion shows with them in recent years. He is the oldest member of the current lineup, and is the primary blue Wiggle with his daughter Lucia as the secondary.

Official Description[]

Anthony loves to play the bagpipes, banjo, drums, guitar and is always ready to whip up a fruit salad, yummy yummy. His favourite colour is blue and loves to share his years of Wiggly wonder. He likes to explore Wiggle Town barefoot playing tunes for everyone to hear. Gee c'mon!

Biography[]

Anthony is well known for being the Wiggle who's always hungry, and is also known for playing multiple instruments in the band such as the drums, trumpet, guitar, bagpipes, violin, tin whistle, kazoo and the banjo. During the original lineup, he was the secondary guitarist but became the lead guitarist when Murray retired.

Anthony is also best known for his commentary throughout a few songs. Some of his famous lines and catchphrases like 'What's next, Greg?' came from these commentaries.

When the Wiggles first got their colored skivvies, Anthony and Greg didn't have any bright colored skivvies, and they both saw a blue skivvy (which is both Greg's and Anthony's favourite colour), so they had a race to get the blue skivvy. Anthony won the race, meaning he got to be blue, and Greg got yellow because there was a yellow skivvy right next to the blue one. However, at times, Anthony used to wear green instead of blue because he had trouble finding bright blue skivvies. However, with the old green screen technology, his body kept disappearing, so he had to permanently switch to blue so that he didn't have to blend in with the green screen.

Appearances[]

Trivia[]

  • He is the person who had the idea to record an album of children's music and thus created The Wiggles.
  • He is the oldest Wiggle of the current generation and also the first Wiggle to reach 60 whilst still being an official Wiggle.
  • So far, he is the only Wiggle who has appeared in every album, video and episode, not counting spinoffs.
  • In the early TV series, he has a room, but in the later TV series, it wasn't seen for unknown reasons.
  • He almost left the band in 2004 due to mental health issues but eventually recovered.
  • He is allergic to peanut butter in the Surfer Jeff video, although this was retconned in the Taking Off! video.
  • In later videos, Anthony is often seen barefooted as it is more comfortable for him.
  • He wears glasses in the Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle! series.
  • From 1992 to 1996, Anthony occasionally wore a green short-sleeved, and sometimes long-sleeved, shirt in silver-blue, teal or white. This is most likely because he had trouble getting bright blue shirts according to Greg and Murray.
  • In The Wiggles Movie and Series 1 episode 'Building Blocks', he goes crazy when he hears someone blow a whistle. Murray tries to warn whoever blows a whistle not to do so, but they blow the whistle anyway.
  • According to an interview with Jeff, Anthony originally did the sleeping gag, but later passed it onto Jeff because they both felt the gag suited him more.
  • He is the first Wiggle to change shirt colours in the group.
  • He is the only Wiggle not to have a mirror clone in TV Series 3.
  • He is the only one of the "Sam Wiggles" to not appear on "Deal or No Deal".
  • He is the only wiggle to be the parent of another wiggle (Lucia).
Characters
Main Characters
The Wiggles (current)
Anthony Wiggle (since 1991) • Lachy Wiggle (since 2013) • Tsehay Wiggle (since 2021) • Simon Wiggle (since 2013)
The Wiggles (secondary)
Evie Wiggle (since 2021) • Lucia Wiggle (since 2022) • Caterina Wiggle (since 2022) • John Wiggle (since 2021)
The Wiggles (former)
Murray Wiggle (1991-2012) • Jeff Wiggle (1991-2012) • Greg Wiggle (1991-2006; 2012) • Phillip Wiggle (1991) • Sam Wiggle (2006-2012) • Emma Wiggle (2013-2021) • Kelly Wiggle (secondary; 2021-2022)
The Wiggly Friends
Dorothy the Dinosaur (since 1991) • Henry the Octopus (since 1992) • Captain Feathersword (since 1993) • Wags the Dog (since 1995) • Shirley Shawn the Unicorn (since 2019)
Supporting Characters
Officer Beaples (1997-2000, 2006, 2013-present) • Bok the Hand Puppet (since 2021) • Paloma the Mermaid (since 2021)
Minor Characters
Flora Door (1999-2000, 2021) • Hot-Pots The Oven (1999-2006, 2023) • Foodman (1998, 2004, 2009, 2023) • Fiona The Circus Leader (2010) • The Little Wiggles (1997, 1999, 2005-2006, 2015, 2017, 2020) • Magdalena the Mermaid (2002, 2006, 2020) • Professor Singalottasonga (1999, 2005-2006) • Ringo the Ringmaster (2009-2012) • Santa Claus (since 1997) • The Wagettes (1997-1999, 2003) • Wally the Great (1997) • The Wiggly Dancers (since 2000)
Selected Guest Stars
Christine Anu (2000, 2016) • Morgan Crowley (2001, 2017) • Lee Hawkins (2014) • Paul the Cook (Paul Hester) (1998) • The Irwins - Steve, Terri, Bindi and Robert (2002, 2017, 2024) • Kylie Minogue (2009, 2017) • Robert Rakete (2014-2015, 2021) • Alfonso Rinaldi (2002-2006, 2012) • Al Roker (2011) • Leo Sayer (2008) • Daryl Somers (2011) • Ross Wilson (2003, 2017)
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