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Anthony is the blue Wiggle, a founding member and the leader of The Wiggles. He is currently the only remaining original member, and he's the only member who's stuck around through 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[]
- Wiggle Time!
- Yummy Yummy
- Big Red Car
- Wake Up Jeff!
- Wiggledance!
- The Wiggles Movie
- Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas
- Wiggle Time! (1998)
- Yummy Yummy (1998)
- The Wiggles: Series 1 (all episodes)
- Toot Toot!
- The Wiggles: Series 2 (all episodes)
- The Wiggly Big Show
- Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate
- It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!
- Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party
- Yule Be Wiggling
- Wiggly Safari
- The Wiggles: Series 3 - Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles! (all episodes)
- Wiggle Bay
- Space Dancing!
- Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins!
- Top of the Tots
- Cold Spaghetti Western
- Santa's Rockin'!
- LIVE Hot Potatoes!
- The Wiggles: Series 4 - The Wiggles Show! (all episodes)
- Sailing Around the World
- Here Comes The Big Red Car
- It's Time to Wake Up Jeff!
- Splish Splash Big Red Boat
- The Wiggles: Series 5 - The Wiggles Show! (all episodes)
- Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A.
- Racing to the Rainbow
- Wiggledancing! Live In Concert
- Getting Strong!
- Pop Go The Wiggles
- The Wiggles: Series 6 - Wiggle and Learn (all episodes)
- You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
- Sing a Song of Wiggles
- The Wiggles Go Bananas!
- The Wiggles Big, Big Show!
- Hot Poppin' Popcorn
- Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles
- Let's Eat!
- Ukulele Baby!
- The Wiggles' Big Birthday!
- It's Always Christmas With You!
- Surfer Jeff
- Celebration!
- Taking Off!
- Furry Tales
- Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 1 (all episodes)
- Pumpkin Face
- Go Santa Go!
- Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (2014)
- Apples & Bananas
- Wiggle House
- Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 2 (all episodes)
- Rock & Roll Preschool
- The Wiggles Meet The Orchestra!
- Wiggle Town!
- Wiggle Town! (TV Series) (all episodes)
- Dance Dance!
- Nursery Rhymes
- Wiggle Around Australia
- Duets
- Emma's Bowtiful Ballet Studio
- Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! (2017)
- Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle! (all episodes)
- The Best of The Wiggles
- The Wiggles Reunion Show
- Nursery Rhymes 2
- Wiggle Pop!
- The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day!
- Party Time!
- The Wiggles' World (all episodes)
- Fun and Games
- Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car!
- We're All Fruit Salad!: The Wiggles' Greatest Hits
- Lullabies with Love
- Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 3 (all episodes)
- Halloween Party
- Super Wiggles
- Wiggly Nursery Rhymes
- Fruit Salad Big Show
- Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 4 (all episodes)
- Ready, Steady, Wiggle! (TV Series 5 & 6) (all episodes)
- The Sound of Halloween
- The Sound of Christmas
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 years old 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.
- Anthony is a breakout character in The Wiggles as he is the sole original wiggle to be part of the new Wiggles generation.
- 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 wild 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).
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