The Wiggles The Wiggles are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney, New South Wales in 1991. The current members of the group are Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce and Emma Watkins.[1] The original members were Field, Phillip Wilcher,Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt.[2] Wilcher left the group after their first album. Page retired in 2006 due to ill health and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran, but returned in 2012, replacing Moran. At the end of 2012, Page, Cook and Fatt retired, although Cook and Fatt retained their shareholding in the group and all three continued to have input into the creative and production aspects of the group.