Lachlan Gillespie Biography – Lachlan Gillespie Wiki
Lachlan Gillespie is an Australian singer, musician, and actor. He is a member of the Wiggles and wears the purple skivvy. He started playing the piano at the age of four and began formal singing training when he was 12. He has been a vocal and drama coach for children between the ages of four and 13. He joined the Wiggles in 2009, touring with the “Dorothy the Dinosaur Traveling Show”, as Captain Feathersword, and then as a Wiggly Dancer and Wags the Dog during the group’s regular tour. In May 2012, it was announced that Gillespie would replace founding member Jeff Fatt as the Purple Wiggle at the beginning of the following year(2013).
He hosts the short-form television show Lachy! which aired on ABC in 2016. It contains episode shorts of him as Lachy Wiggle. In 2018, Gillespie, along with fellow Wiggles member Anthony Field, Emma Watkins, and band members Oliver Brian and David O’Reilly, began a band for adult fans called the Unusual Commoners, which played a mixture of traditional Australian, Irish, Scottish, and folk songs. They performed their first international show in St. John’s, Newfoundland in late 2018.
He attended the Fame School of Performing Arts as a teenager, earned a Bachelor of Arts in musical theatre at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), and has performed in musicals in Melbourne and New York.
Lachlan Gillespie Age
He was born on October 23, 1985, in Brisbane, Australia.
Lachlan Gillespie Wife
In May 2015, he and fellow Wiggles performer Emma Watkins announced their engagement. They married on April 9, 2016, at Hopewood House in Bowral, New South Wales. On August 3, 2018, Gillespie and Watkins announced their separation.
On April 9, 2020, ballet dancer Dana Stephensen proposed to him after meeting on the set of the Wiggles in December 2018. On September 11, 2020, he announced the arrival of their newborn twin daughters, Lottie and Lulu.
Lachlan Gillespie Children
On September 11, 2020, he announced the arrival of their newborn twin daughters, Lottie and Lulu.
Lachlan Gillespie Instagram
His Instagram handle is @lachy_wiggle.
