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The Wiggles announce new 'gender balanced and diverse' cast members for YouTube series​

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The Big Red Car just got a bit crowded with twice as many Wiggles on board.

Key points:​

• There is a new member of the band for each of the four Wiggle colours
• The band says it is seeking to inspire a 'diverse audience'
• Anthony Field is the only remaining original Wiggle

The Australian children's band has expanded its line up to eight Wiggles as part of its new YouTube series Fruit Salad TV.

The Wiggles said they were "seeking to inspire a diverse audience with its gender-balanced and diverse cast" and make sure children around the world "see themselves reflected on the screen".

There are four new cast members, one for each Wiggle colour, including three women, two of whom wear pants.

Tsehay Hawkins, 15, is the second red Wiggle. Hawkins was born in Ethiopia and adopted by an Australian family. She is a Latin dance champion.
Evie Ferris, a corps de ballet dancer with the Australian Ballet, is the second blue Wiggle and wears blue ballet shoes.

Ferris, 24, is an Indigenous Australian and first performed with the Wiggles for their song We're All Fruit Salad earlier this year.

Kelly Hamilton, 45, is the second yellow Wiggle alongside the band's first female member Emma.

Hamilton is a Chinese-Australian and will ride her skateboard around Wiggle Town.

The fourth new cast member is second purple Wiggle John Pearce, 30, a former member of the music group Justice Crew.

Hawkins, Ferris, Hamilton and Pearce join the current Wiggles: Lachlan Gillespie (purple), Simon Pryce, (red), Emma Watkins (yellow) and Anthony Field (blue).

Field, 58, is the only remaining original Wiggle — the band formed in 1991.

Fruit Salad TV will debut on September 4 on YouTube and be available worldwide.

 

[Least Concern]

So some of the Wiggles will be sparkling?

(The boomers get it.)

 

[Troonos]

An Abo? Really? They're barely even human.

 

[O.H. Krill]

I could swear that many years ago they franchised out the Wiggles so a bunch of different countries could have their own native-language version of the show. Maybe I imagined it, but I have a vague memory of seeing a Mexican version on one of their videos.

edit: nope, not my imagination - https://wiggles.fandom.com/wiki/The_Latin_American_Wiggles

 

[Corpun]

Wiggles always struck me as kiddy diddlers, the AGPs and troons they put in the cast will only confirm their sex pest behavior.

 

[Mealy Mouth Spittle]

I'm still laughing about the name, Fruit Salad TV. Does no one call gays "fruits" anymore? That's the first thing that came to mind when I heard it.

I remember watching the Wiggles with my kids. At least they were better than the Teletubbies. Or Yo Gabba Gabba. That one was like watching someone's LSD trip turned into a children's program. The only reason to ever put up with kids programming is if it is truly "child friendly". There's really no reason to torture yourself with it in current year.

 

[Dysnomia]

Surely they'll be hiding the gasoline from the aboriginal wiggle

what the fuck, that chick looks like an Italian. Bootleg abbo

I had to actually double check to see which one was abbo.

Is Australia like the US when it comes to colorism? They'll complain that someone not being dark and ethnic looking enough is just more white supremacy and you need to pick the pitch black girl with the nose that spans state borders if you want to really be inclusive.

 

[Robert w'E'd Leef]

I had to actually double check to see which one was abbo.

Is Australia like the US when it comes to colorism? They'll complain that someone not being dark and ethnic looking enough is just more white supremacy and you need to pick the pitch black girl with the nose that spans state borders if you want to really be inclusive.

I'm assuming her claim of being aboriginal is because a few centuries ago in her family line, some irish convict raped an aboriginie as soon he got off the prison ship at Botany Bay

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

including three women, two of whom wear pants.

What? Is this article from some alternate universe where women aren't allowed to wear pants or else The Skirtsman comes to their house and decapitates them, making pants-wearing a courageous and noteworthy act?

Or was this just written by an out of touch journo whose view of traditional gender roles comes exclusively from mean-spirited parodies of Leave It To Beaver?

 

[NyQuilninja]

Sorry to be that guy, but literally who?

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

Wiggles always struck me as kiddy diddlers, the AGPs and troons they put in the cast will only confirm their sex pest behavior.

They're making the cast Captain Planet diverse with lots of women and non-whites, there's no mention of tranny stuff.

 

[Pee Cola]

‘You go woke, you go broke’: The Wiggles slammed over new line-up​

Controversial politician Matt Canavan has savaged kids group The Wiggles for adding new racially diverse characters to its line-up.

August 23, 2021 - 4:37PM
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A controversial Coalition senator has launched an attack on children’s entertainment group The Wiggles for adding four new racially diverse characters to its line-up.

Four new members will join the existing ensemble of Anthony, Simon, Emma and Lachy in a bid to make it more culturally inclusive.
Tsehay Hawkins, 15, is originally from Ethiopia and will wear red; Evie Ferris is a 24-year-old Indigenous woman who will wear blue; Kelly Hamilton, 45, is Asian-Australian and will wear yellow; and John Pearce, 28, of pop group Justice Crew, has Filipino heritage and will wear purple.

Founding blue Wiggle Anthony Field came up with the idea and told NCA NewsWire he felt “morally, we have to do this”.

“I looked around the world and I thought: ‘We have to reflect our audience’. Our audience is not just one culture, we want children to see a mirror of themselves. I hope people, mums and dads as well, will feel included.”

The new characters will be part of a new YouTube series called Fruit Salad TV, which premieres next month.

Four new culturally diverse characters join The Wiggles for a new YouTube series called Fruit Salad TV.

Matt Canavan, a Nationals senator from Queensland, wasn’t pleased with Sunday’s announcement.

The outspoken conservative, who regularly rails against progressive social issues as well as climate change and environmentalism, told The Australian the new line-up would destroy The Wiggles.

“The Wiggles are free to do what they like. It was nice while it lasted. But you go woke, you go broke,” Senator Canavan told the newspaper.

Social media trolls echoed his sentiment, with several responding to the official announcement on Twitter with a range of “go woke, go broke” remarks.

The Wiggles outfit is one of the most successful in Australian entertainment history, raking in an estimated $30 million annually thanks to a loyal global following, lucrative television syndication, concert tours and merchandising.

Senator Canavan’s latest contribution to the conversation surrounding current events comes a week after he was condemned for linking atrocities in Afghanistan to climate change.

“Does anyone know whether the Taliban will sign up to net zero?” he tweeted last Monday.

Countless figures attacked the dig, including fellow Nationals politician Darren Chester who said Senator Canavan was “offensive, disrespectful and totally lacking in any compassion”.

He has also undermined efforts by governments to control the spread of Covid-19 by suggesting lockdowns aren’t necessary and saying strict measures to save lives were “an unjustifiable expense”.

Senator Canavan has also been critical of the covid vaccine rollout, contradicting the Coalition’s messaging.

 

[Corpun]

They're making the cast Captain Planet diverse with lots of women and non-whites, there's no mention of tranny stuff.

'Women' are concerned women by corporate now.