The Wiggles’ Hot Potato documentary: Why Emma Watkins was absent from the premiere

It appears the complete Wiggles household gathered to have a good time the launch of the group’s new documentary… nicely, with one absence.

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles premiered on Thursday night, and we eagerly awaited to see the reunion of Wiggles previous and current.

But once we noticed the pictures, we have been left with an Emma Watkins-shaped gap in our coronary heart.

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Watkins was the firstwoman to affix the group, and was shortly beloved by Wiggles followers.

However, she hung up the Yellow Skivvy in 2021 to pursue different profession aspirations.

She now works as Emma Memma, a kids’s leisure character specializing in a complete new type of communication.

Watkins’ profession as Emma Memma has taken off, and that is precisely why she needed to miss the premiere.

On Thursday night, she was on the different facet of the nation for a guide signing in Perth for her new launch Emma Memma’s Alphabet Day.

Thankfully, although, the viewers at the least obtained a glimpse of the former Yellow Wiggle when she was interviewed in the documentary.

The Wiggles: Then and now

Although Watkins wasn’t in attendance, our Wiggle-loving appetites have been nicely fed with many acquainted faces showing at the premiere, together with all 4 founding members.

Original Wiggles Jeff Fatt, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Anthony Field all appeared overjoyed to be aside of the momentous event, and so they have been joined by loads of different forged members from years previous and current.

The documentary was nicely acquired by viewers members, and we cannot spoil an excessive amount of right here, however we’d say it is positively price a watch.

After 32 years in the enterprise, the homegrown world phenomenon have given followers a glimpse of their lives behind-the-scenes in the new Amazon Prime documentary.

From why they put on their signature skivvies to how Jeff Fatt’s on-stage persona’s quasi-narcolepsy took place and past, there’s a lot to study from Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles.