Emma Watkins will say goodbye to the Wiggles at the end of this year, after the performer announced that she would hand the famous yellow skivvy to Tsehay Hawkins, one of four new cast members who recently joined the group.

Emma said she wanted to devote more time and energy to her other passions and complete her PhD, but some insiders believe she is leaving because she “just got too big for the group” and what to continue working with her ex-husband was “painful”.

“This clean break also gives him the opportunity to create his own brand, distinct from the Wiggles,” an insider reportedly said. Woman’s day magazine.

The source claimed it would help Emma put more distance between herself and ex-compatriot Wiggle Lachlan Gillespie.

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Emma and Lachlan’s relationship and the separation that followed made headlines in August 2018, but the two maintained that they remained very close friends.

“She and Lachy have a great relationship with exes, but it’s hard to move on completely when you’re spending so much time with your ex,” the source said.

“She’s really glad he found someone else and became a dad, but of course it’s a bit painful as well.”

Emma announced her engagement to her bandmate Oliver Brian in April, three years after her marriage to Purple Wiggle Lachlan Gillespie ended.

Lachlan has since welcomed twin girls with his ballerina fiancee Dana Stephensen, whom he met when she was a guest dancer for The Wiggles.

Indeed, Sarah Yip – alias Queen of numbers – a professional medium from the Gold Coast, recently said Yahoo Lifestyle she believed the change would allow the 32-year-old artist to have “an easier and more peaceful family and relationship journey from now on.”

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Sarah revealed that Emma is a rare 12/39/3 LifePath Artist with her birthday on September 21, 1989, also adding, “Her biggest lesson in life is to say no to choices that drain or scatter her. “

Emma announced the sad news she was leaving in a statement from the group last week, explaining that she wanted to devote more time and energy to her other passions.

“After 11 years of playing with The Wiggles, and nine of them as the Yellow Wiggle, now is the time for me to pass on the yellow skivvy,” she began.

“Like many people around the world, the pandemic has given me time to think about what’s important in life. For me that meant spending more time at home, something I didn’t realize I’d missed by being away eight months of the year on tour, but something that I really cherished over the course of time. over the past 18 months.

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