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data-ttid="ArticleTimtamp"><time data-ttid="ArticleTimtamp-time">Jun 4, 2021 – 10.32am</time></div><div class="_31gDS" data-ttid="ArticleTools"><div class="_26BHG"><button aria-scribedby="articleToolsLogTooltip" class="JSEcE WiPOW" data-click-outsi-ignore="te" data-ttid="SaveArticle-button" type="button"><span class="DcglW _3KahZ"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-bookmark"></e></svg></span><span class="_1dFpl">Save</span></button><div class="G-AXw _3Xjsv" id="articleToolsLogTooltip" role="tooltip"><div class="_3sIJa" data-ttid="SaveArticle-tooltip"><button class="__V_M" type="button">Log </button> or <a class="_3NFfI" data-ttid="SaveArticle-subscribeLk" href=">Subscribe</a> to save article</div></div></div><div class="_332VY" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare"><button class="_1whEj _3jOVc" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare-buttonShare" type="button"><span class="_1cmVb _1hJaj"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-share"></e></svg></span><span class="_35K">Share</span></button></div></div></sectn></sectn><p>Retired purple Wiggle <a href=">Jeff Fatt</a> is at pas to pot out that he prefers to be the background and don’t like to reveal much about his personal life – which is odd, sce we are meetg ostensibly to talk about his appearance on SBS TV show <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Who Do You Thk You Are?</em></a>, which his fay history will be set out for a large dience.</p><p>So why agree to go on TV and then help promote the show by talkg to journalists?</p><p>“It was the rrot of fdg out about my great-great-grandmother [who was born England],” he says. 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The low-key choice of eatery turns out to be bee the owner is a iend of one of his nephews.</p><p>Fatt’s choice of grey and black cloth is a disappotment but his choice of toed sho (like foot glov) adds some of the quirks one would expect om a man who has spent most of his reer the primary-loured world of pre-schoolers.</p><p>Do he ever wear purple, I ask? Only for work, he tells me. I had expected a certa high-tensy zans and tal of high jks on tour, but Fatt is warm and pleasant and givg nothg much away.<strong> </strong></p><p>I am all too aware of how long Atralia’s most succsful children’s group, the Wiggl, has been around: my elst child was born the same year the band formed and grew up to a soundtrack that clud such favour as <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga,</em> <em>Big Red Car</em>!</a>, <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Hot Potato</em></a> and <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Wake Up Jeff!.</em></a></p><p>In the mid 1990s, I eded a magaze for prchoolers and did a uple of photo shoots wh the band. Fatt, unsurprisgly, don’t remember them sce there were no dramas and the Wiggl were credibly by shootg their first vios and tourg the regns at that time.</p><p>The genis of the Wiggl, which was the brachild of blue Wiggle Anthony Field, has been told often: through the 1980s Field and Fatt worked together a pub band lled the Cockroach. They origally met through Fatt’s public addrs rental bs.</p></sectn><asi class="_3kZQd _2H2M_"></asi></div><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR ArNEh" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos2-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos2-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos2-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><sectn class="_1WJ6z"><div class="_3Msim"><sectn class="_2Bg2I" id="endOfArticle"><p>Field went to Macquarie Universy where he studied early childhood tn and teamed up wh fellow stunts Murray Cook (red Wiggle) and Greg Page (yellow Wiggle), and Phillip Wilcher, who worked the universy’s mic partment, to create a band that would e the tn prcipl they had been tght. He drafted Fatt, and the Wiggl were born. Their first album, rerd their first year together, sold 100,000 pi. Wilcher left the group 1992.</p><div class="_1xawu"><div class="gram-embed" data-id="ag-aweekend-newsletter-signup-1hxj48pmneek52v" data-type="teractive"></div></div><p>Over the next 21 years, the band went on to tour overseas, build a multi-generatn followg, sell lns of CDs and DVDs, and w 14 ARIAs. In 2012, Fatt, Page and Cook retired and passed the baton to the current le-up of Emma Watks (yellow), Lachlan Gillpie (purple), Simon Pryce (red) and Field.</p><p>Fatt is probably bt known for the feigned narlepsy that ved dienc to shout out: “Wake up, Jeff!”</p><p>Do people still say that to him?</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac, width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":596,"urls":["width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac"," width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac, width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":540,"urls":["width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac"," width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>The Wiggl 2006, om left: Murray Cook (red Wiggle), Jeff Fatt (purple Wiggle), Greg Page (yellow Wiggle) and Anthony Field (blue Wiggle).<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">AP</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Not so much the days, he says. After all, ’s ne years sce he stopped performg, but he do rell the nversatn about addg the ia to the show.</p><p>“When we were discsg dog this, Anthony said, ‘This is gog to have a huge impact on you; you’re never gog be known for anythg else.’”</p><p>The Wiggl brand brgs lns of dollars a year om tourg, merchandise and mic sal (the now funct BRW Rich Entertaers list om 2011 put a value of $28 ln on the group). Tours are the ma revenue source, Fatt says, so the lack of live shows ed by the panmic has had an impact on e.</p><p>Overseeg the activi are shareholrs Field, Fatt and Cook pl a board. (Page was paid out when he left the group 2006 followg a diagnosis of orthostatic tolerance, a chronic ndn that lethargy and fatg spells. When he briefly rejoed the group 2012 was as an employee.) Two of the new st members, <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Watks and Gillpie, have equy the bs</a>.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos3-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos3-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos3-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Last year, Field’s brother Pl stepped down as managg director.</p><p>There is no chief executive, says Fatt, who did the band’s acunts the early days, but Field fulfils that role whout the tle. “Anthony’s the drivg force. Essentially was his ia to do the Wiggl. He gets so passnate about thgs, and he absolutely lov performg on stage.</p><p>“Murray and myself are more of a backseat sort of thg. I will step up if they need somethg done.”</p><p>One “somethg” need to be done last year, when Fatt, who don’t have any children, once more donned the purple skivvy to provi parental leave ver for Gillpie when the band rerd some onle segments.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo _1lLN3 NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="382" height="573" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAIAAAADCAQAAAAT4xYKAAAADklEQVR42mNkAAJGOAEAAC0ABNxMS2YAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAIAAAADCAQAAAAT4xYKAAAADklEQVR42mNkAAJGOAEAAC0ABNxMS2YAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="zoom_0.365%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_1/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/c2e3b57bb9516e19a78ec8fe4f7f1c24abe006, zoom_0.365%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_1/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/c2e3b57bb9516e19a78ec8fe4f7f1c24abe006 2x" 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sho.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Rohan Thomson</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Most recently, Fatt acpanied the Wiggl’ characters – Wags the Dog, Dorothy the Dosr, Henry the Octop and Capta Feathersword – <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para</a> March. It was his first Mardi Gras but wasn’t his first para.</p><p>“I do enjoy a para,” he says. “We did Macy’s Thanksgivg Day Para twice New York Cy and once Detro. We weren’t that well known the first time, but by the send time we were on the Disney Channel.”</p><p>Mardi Gras, he says, wh s celebratn of rabow fai, is a good f wh the Wiggl’ re value of clivens.</p><p>The fe owner has been hangg back discreetly, so I suggt we orr. She remends the fish tas, which Fatt go for, while I ci on a salad bowl wh smoked salmon.</p><p>The food, which arriv jt time for photography, is simple and h. I wash me down wh a sparklg water, but Fatt sticks to tap water. The fe isn’t licensed so there’s no temptatn to orr somethg stronger. Not that would matter: “I’m not a drker,” he says.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos4-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos4-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos4-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>The other patrons appear to be lols, a few drsed smartly enough to suggt they are back the office.</p><p>What do a retired Wiggle do? I ask.</p><p>Fatt dabbl wh mic but don’t play profsnally, he says. He seems ambivalent about performg. He lik to surf: “I have a long board, ’s a very laid-back way of surfg.” He go on leisurely cycle ris. His emphasis of the gentlens of exercise is bee he had a pacemaker fted 2011.</p><p>“I feel much better now than before I had the pacemaker put . 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It would kick back to rhythm but now ’s permanently AF, which is not unfortable. The disfort when the heart’s tryg to get back to rhythm.”</p><p>He also lik to tker at home wh do--yourself projects around the hoe. “I’m pretty good wh drills,” he says.</p><p>At prent, he’s occupied digisg fay photos and negativ. There are a lot, he says. Some olr imag feature his SBS episo along wh footage shot by his father on an 8 mm home movie mera.</p><p>Fatt was born Caso, NSW, a fourth-generatn Che Atralian. His parents, Osr and Norma Fatt, ran a store the town until they retired and moved to Sydney.</p><p>“I sentially grew up a very European culture,” Fatt says. “Wh the proviso that my mum was very Che and stilled Che sorts of thgs, like what you eat.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos5-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos5-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos5-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Fatt’s brother, Hilton, is still Caso but his three sisters, Meilg, Meigu and Kriste, also live Sydney, as do his two nephews and two niec. “My great-nephew is a nutse over the Wiggl,” Fatt says. “He knows who I am. He lov sgg. He’ll be three October, and he knows all the lyrics.”</p><p>It sounds as if the Fatts are a mil fay, I say.</p><p>“Mum played the piano, as did my siblgs; better than I do,” he says. “I n’t sight-read; well I n, but very slowly. My bra is not nfigured that way; I image perhaps I’m slightly dyslexic. I don’t have a great technil expertise; aquate enough for purpose.”</p><p>He says he fds memorisg lyrics hard, too.</p><p>Dog the fay history show has given him much greater appreciatn of his Che anctors. However, was his half-European great-grandmother, Emma Tear Tack, he was keen to learn more about.</p><p>Her parents met and married durg the Victorian gold sh era. Lookg at their liv gave him a sense of the <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sle of Che migratn</a> durg that time, when 50,000 Che arrived between 1851 and 1856.</p><p>Sce rerdg the show, Fatt has joed Che fay history groups on Facebook – he speaks only a ltle Cantone and no Mandar, so the ntacts will help wh document translatn as he pursu more rmatn about his fay om Che sourc.</p><p>There’s talk of a Sttish anctor he would like to learn more about, and he hop he will be able to travel to Europe eventually, part to do more rearch.</p><p>Fatt’s extend fay won’t see the show until is aired. “I hate beg terviewed and I hate beg on mera,” he says. “I probably won’t even watch the show.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos6-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos6-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos6-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Our two hours are up and while I pay, Fatt ps to chat to the fe owner, who is thrilled he chose her place as the venue for our terview. 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THE WIGGL STAR JEFF FATT TAK PART  SYDNEY GAY AND LBIAN MARDI GRAS

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data-id="61ec80f7fd22353834791d7cbd862eaa5ad071" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.777778,"type":"landspe16x9","width":460,"urls":["zoom_0.1433%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_71/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_460%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/61ec80f7fd22353834791d7cbd862eaa5ad071"," zoom_0.1433%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_71/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_920%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/61ec80f7fd22353834791d7cbd862eaa5ad071 2x"]}" width="460" height="259"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Apart om the odd leisurely lunch, the days retired Wiggle Jeff Fatt spends his time on gentle exercise, surfg and do--yourself projects at home. “I’m pretty good wh drills,” he says.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Louie Douvis</ce></p></figptn></figure></hear><div class="_2Xsxe"><sectn class="_2Bg2I P98rJ"><sectn class="_34rok"><div class="_1SJT9"><span class="_3Y35P"><span class="_3i9lf" data-ttid="AuthorNam"><strong>Theo Chapman</strong></span></span></div><sectn class="AbPG4"><div class="_2cdD4" data-ttid="ArticleTimtamp"><time data-ttid="ArticleTimtamp-time">Jun 4, 2021 – 10.32am</time></div><div class="_31gDS" data-ttid="ArticleTools"><div class="_26BHG"><button aria-scribedby="articleToolsLogTooltip" class="JSEcE WiPOW" data-click-outsi-ignore="te" data-ttid="SaveArticle-button" type="button"><span class="DcglW _3KahZ"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-bookmark"></e></svg></span><span class="_1dFpl">Save</span></button><div class="G-AXw _3Xjsv" id="articleToolsLogTooltip" role="tooltip"><div class="_3sIJa" data-ttid="SaveArticle-tooltip"><button class="__V_M" type="button">Log </button> or <a class="_3NFfI" data-ttid="SaveArticle-subscribeLk" href=">Subscribe</a> to save article</div></div></div><div class="_332VY" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare"><button class="_1whEj _3jOVc" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare-buttonShare" type="button"><span class="_1cmVb _1hJaj"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-share"></e></svg></span><span class="_35K">Share</span></button></div></div></sectn></sectn><p>Retired purple Wiggle <a href=">Jeff Fatt</a> is at pas to pot out that he prefers to be the background and don’t like to reveal much about his personal life – which is odd, sce we are meetg ostensibly to talk about his appearance on SBS TV show <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Who Do You Thk You Are?</em></a>, which his fay history will be set out for a large dience.</p><p>So why agree to go on TV and then help promote the show by talkg to journalists?</p><p>“It was the rrot of fdg out about my great-great-grandmother [who was born England],” he says. Pl, his appearance on TV helps draw attentn to the <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wiggl’ 30th anniversary</a>.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo _1lLN3 NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="382" height="573" srcSet="zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84, zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0.666667,"type":"portra2x3","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84"," zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="284" height="426" srcSet="zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_284%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84, zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_568%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0.666667,"type":"portra2x3","width":284,"urls":["zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_284%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84"," zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_568%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" width="240" height="360" srcSet="zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_240%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84, zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_480%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0.666667,"type":"portra2x3","width":240,"urls":["zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_240%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84"," zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_480%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84" srcSet="zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84, zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0.666667,"type":"portra2x3","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84"," zoom_0.13%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_97%2C$y_109/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/52d68d46db411ea1752a586c23a069f109c19e84 2x"]}" width="382" height="573"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>“When we were discsg dog [Wake Up Jeff!], Anthony said, ‘This is gog to have a huge impact on you; you’re never gog be known for anythg else,’” Fatt says.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Louie Douvis</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>The 67-year-old don’t seem particularly shy when we s down at an outdoor table at Mt, a ty fe Sydney’s lower north shore suburb of Kirribilli. The low-key choice of eatery turns out to be bee the owner is a iend of one of his nephews.</p><p>Fatt’s choice of grey and black cloth is a disappotment but his choice of toed sho (like foot glov) adds some of the quirks one would expect om a man who has spent most of his reer the primary-loured world of pre-schoolers.</p><p>Do he ever wear purple, I ask? Only for work, he tells me. I had expected a certa high-tensy zans and tal of high jks on tour, but Fatt is warm and pleasant and givg nothg much away.<strong> </strong></p><p>I am all too aware of how long Atralia’s most succsful children’s group, the Wiggl, has been around: my elst child was born the same year the band formed and grew up to a soundtrack that clud such favour as <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga,</em> <em>Big Red Car</em>!</a>, <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Hot Potato</em></a> and <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Wake Up Jeff!.</em></a></p><p>In the mid 1990s, I eded a magaze for prchoolers and did a uple of photo shoots wh the band. Fatt, unsurprisgly, don’t remember them sce there were no dramas and the Wiggl were credibly by shootg their first vios and tourg the regns at that time.</p><p>The genis of the Wiggl, which was the brachild of blue Wiggle Anthony Field, has been told often: through the 1980s Field and Fatt worked together a pub band lled the Cockroach. They origally met through Fatt’s public addrs rental bs.</p></sectn><asi class="_3kZQd _2H2M_"></asi></div><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR ArNEh" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos2-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos2-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos2-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><sectn class="_1WJ6z"><div class="_3Msim"><sectn class="_2Bg2I" id="endOfArticle"><p>Field went to Macquarie Universy where he studied early childhood tn and teamed up wh fellow stunts Murray Cook (red Wiggle) and Greg Page (yellow Wiggle), and Phillip Wilcher, who worked the universy’s mic partment, to create a band that would e the tn prcipl they had been tght. He drafted Fatt, and the Wiggl were born. Their first album, rerd their first year together, sold 100,000 pi. Wilcher left the group 1992.</p><div class="_1xawu"><div class="gram-embed" data-id="ag-aweekend-newsletter-signup-1hxj48pmneek52v" data-type="teractive"></div></div><p>Over the next 21 years, the band went on to tour overseas, build a multi-generatn followg, sell lns of CDs and DVDs, and w 14 ARIAs. In 2012, Fatt, Page and Cook retired and passed the baton to the current le-up of Emma Watks (yellow), Lachlan Gillpie (purple), Simon Pryce (red) and Field.</p><p>Fatt is probably bt known for the feigned narlepsy that ved dienc to shout out: “Wake up, Jeff!”</p><p>Do people still say that to him?</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac, width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":596,"urls":["width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac"," width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac, width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":540,"urls":["width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac"," width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/034ec19e2443e479d480c3f913b89ea4c57399ac 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>The Wiggl 2006, om left: Murray Cook (red Wiggle), Jeff Fatt (purple Wiggle), Greg Page (yellow Wiggle) and Anthony Field (blue Wiggle).<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">AP</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Not so much the days, he says. After all, ’s ne years sce he stopped performg, but he do rell the nversatn about addg the ia to the show.</p><p>“When we were discsg dog this, Anthony said, ‘This is gog to have a huge impact on you; you’re never gog be known for anythg else.’”</p><p>The Wiggl brand brgs lns of dollars a year om tourg, merchandise and mic sal (the now funct BRW Rich Entertaers list om 2011 put a value of $28 ln on the group). Tours are the ma revenue source, Fatt says, so the lack of live shows ed by the panmic has had an impact on e.</p><p>Overseeg the activi are shareholrs Field, Fatt and Cook pl a board. (Page was paid out when he left the group 2006 followg a diagnosis of orthostatic tolerance, a chronic ndn that lethargy and fatg spells. When he briefly rejoed the group 2012 was as an employee.) Two of the new st members, <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Watks and Gillpie, have equy the bs</a>.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos3-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos3-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos3-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Last year, Field’s brother Pl stepped down as managg director.</p><p>There is no chief executive, says Fatt, who did the band’s acunts the early days, but Field fulfils that role whout the tle. “Anthony’s the drivg force. Essentially was his ia to do the Wiggl. He gets so passnate about thgs, and he absolutely lov performg on stage.</p><p>“Murray and myself are more of a backseat sort of thg. I will step up if they need somethg done.”</p><p>One “somethg” need to be done last year, when Fatt, who don’t have any children, once more donned the purple skivvy to provi parental leave ver for Gillpie when the band rerd some onle segments.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo _1lLN3 NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="382" height="573" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAIAAAADCAQAAAAT4xYKAAAADklEQVR42mNkAAJGOAEAAC0ABNxMS2YAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAIAAAADCAQAAAAT4xYKAAAADklEQVR42mNkAAJGOAEAAC0ABNxMS2YAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="zoom_0.365%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_1/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/c2e3b57bb9516e19a78ec8fe4f7f1c24abe006, zoom_0.365%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_0.666667%2C$width_378%2C$x_0%2C$y_1/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/c2e3b57bb9516e19a78ec8fe4f7f1c24abe006 2x" 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sho.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Rohan Thomson</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Most recently, Fatt acpanied the Wiggl’ characters – Wags the Dog, Dorothy the Dosr, Henry the Octop and Capta Feathersword – <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> the Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para</a> March. It was his first Mardi Gras but wasn’t his first para.</p><p>“I do enjoy a para,” he says. “We did Macy’s Thanksgivg Day Para twice New York Cy and once Detro. We weren’t that well known the first time, but by the send time we were on the Disney Channel.”</p><p>Mardi Gras, he says, wh s celebratn of rabow fai, is a good f wh the Wiggl’ re value of clivens.</p><p>The fe owner has been hangg back discreetly, so I suggt we orr. She remends the fish tas, which Fatt go for, while I ci on a salad bowl wh smoked salmon.</p><p>The food, which arriv jt time for photography, is simple and h. I wash me down wh a sparklg water, but Fatt sticks to tap water. The fe isn’t licensed so there’s no temptatn to orr somethg stronger. Not that would matter: “I’m not a drker,” he says.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos4-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos4-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos4-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>The other patrons appear to be lols, a few drsed smartly enough to suggt they are back the office.</p><p>What do a retired Wiggle do? I ask.</p><p>Fatt dabbl wh mic but don’t play profsnally, he says. He seems ambivalent about performg. He lik to surf: “I have a long board, ’s a very laid-back way of surfg.” He go on leisurely cycle ris. His emphasis of the gentlens of exercise is bee he had a pacemaker fted 2011.</p><p>“I feel much better now than before I had the pacemaker put . 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It would kick back to rhythm but now ’s permanently AF, which is not unfortable. The disfort when the heart’s tryg to get back to rhythm.”</p><p>He also lik to tker at home wh do--yourself projects around the hoe. “I’m pretty good wh drills,” he says.</p><p>At prent, he’s occupied digisg fay photos and negativ. There are a lot, he says. Some olr imag feature his SBS episo along wh footage shot by his father on an 8 mm home movie mera.</p><p>Fatt was born Caso, NSW, a fourth-generatn Che Atralian. His parents, Osr and Norma Fatt, ran a store the town until they retired and moved to Sydney.</p><p>“I sentially grew up a very European culture,” Fatt says. “Wh the proviso that my mum was very Che and stilled Che sorts of thgs, like what you eat.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos5-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos5-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos5-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Fatt’s brother, Hilton, is still Caso but his three sisters, Meilg, Meigu and Kriste, also live Sydney, as do his two nephews and two niec. “My great-nephew is a nutse over the Wiggl,” Fatt says. “He knows who I am. He lov sgg. He’ll be three October, and he knows all the lyrics.”</p><p>It sounds as if the Fatts are a mil fay, I say.</p><p>“Mum played the piano, as did my siblgs; better than I do,” he says. “I n’t sight-read; well I n, but very slowly. My bra is not nfigured that way; I image perhaps I’m slightly dyslexic. I don’t have a great technil expertise; aquate enough for purpose.”</p><p>He says he fds memorisg lyrics hard, too.</p><p>Dog the fay history show has given him much greater appreciatn of his Che anctors. However, was his half-European great-grandmother, Emma Tear Tack, he was keen to learn more about.</p><p>Her parents met and married durg the Victorian gold sh era. Lookg at their liv gave him a sense of the <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sle of Che migratn</a> durg that time, when 50,000 Che arrived between 1851 and 1856.</p><p>Sce rerdg the show, Fatt has joed Che fay history groups on Facebook – he speaks only a ltle Cantone and no Mandar, so the ntacts will help wh document translatn as he pursu more rmatn about his fay om Che sourc.</p><p>There’s talk of a Sttish anctor he would like to learn more about, and he hop he will be able to travel to Europe eventually, part to do more rearch.</p><p>Fatt’s extend fay won’t see the show until is aired. “I hate beg terviewed and I hate beg on mera,” he says. “I probably won’t even watch the show.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos6-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos6-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos6-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Our two hours are up and while I pay, Fatt ps to chat to the fe owner, who is thrilled he chose her place as the venue for our terview. And then, wh his parkg meter about to expire, he stris off up the hill.</p><p><em>Season 12 of </em><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who Do You Thk You Are?</a><em> starts on SBS on June 8. Jeff Fatt’s episo airs on June 29.</em></p><h2>The bill</h2><p><strong>Mt Cafe, Shop 1, 31 Fzroy Street, Kirribilli, Sydney </strong></p><p>Flat whe ffee, $4<br/>Sparklg water, $4<br/>Fish tas, $19<br/>Salad bowl wh salmon, $21</p><p><strong>Total: $48</strong></p></sectn><div class="_3nTt0 _1-k7i" data-ttid="ArticleFooter"><div class="_30U_H"><div class="_26BHG"><button aria-scribedby="articleFooterLogTooltip" class="JSEcE uxhXB" data-click-outsi-ignore="te" data-ttid="SaveArticle-button" type="button"><span class="DcglW"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-bookmark"></e></svg></span><span class="">Save</span></button><div class="_2jGyo _3Xjsv" id="articleFooterLogTooltip" role="tooltip"><div class="KNEjM" data-ttid="SaveArticle-tooltip"><button class="__V_M" type="button">Log </button> or <a class="_3NFfI" data-ttid="SaveArticle-subscribeLk" href=">Subscribe</a> to save article</div></div></div><div class="_332VY" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare"><button class="_1whEj E-qQO" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare-buttonShare" type="button"><span class="_1cmVb"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-share"></e></svg></span><span class="">Share</span></button></div></div><div class="_28OFW"><button class="DAADa" type="button">Prt article</button><div class="nEW5f _39ULh"><a class="_2SABC" href=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>License article</span></a></div></div></div><div class="_2ncsN UYykW" data-ttid="ArticleTags"><div class="_27M2O _2-Rvi" data-ttid="NewsfeedArticleDriver" role="alert"><hear class="_1slp0"><h2 class="_2iSlc">Introducg your <span class="_3jl0N">Newsfeed</span></h2><button class="_1aHhd" data-ttid="NewsfeedArticleDriver-close" type="button"><svg class="_1SIxy" aria-labelledby="newsfeed article driverclose-tle" focable="false" height="1em" aria-label="Close" role="img" width="1em"><tle id="newsfeed article driverclose-tle">Close.

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