The Wiggles' marriage split: This is why Lachlan Gillespie and Emma Watkins aren't together anymore
Purple Wiggle Lachlan Gillespie has shared a few words about the turmoil between himself and former partner Emma Watkins.
Gillespie broke his silence on the ABC’s Australian Story, a short time after the pair announced their seemingly amicable split last month.
Watkins, who is currently the yellow Wiggle, revealed to The Daily Telegraph that she was the one that initiated the split but also went on to clarify that there was no sense of hostility between the pair, but Gillespie believes otherwise.
“We’re very different, Emma and I. We’re very … I think I’m the more romantic one. She’s very much down the line and she just … she’s got her own way of doing things,” Gillespie said on Monday night’s episode.
“It’s not easy spending that much time together with the pressure of work, too.
“I think it has gone through ups and downs. There’s not a lot of time in between to spend together outside Wiggles.
“It has all been all-consuming, and that’s been a tricky thing to get right, I suppose.”
Watkins – whose rise as the yellow Wiggle has made her a fan favourite – had only good things to say about her ex-husband.
“Lachy has been so supportive, and I really can’t thank him enough in all of this,” Watkins said.
“We started to spend more time with our families, and that started to become quite a priority for us. I think there was a realisation that romantically it just wasn’t going the way that our friendship was going.
“I think we decided to part our ways quite organically over the course of about eight months. It was a mutual decision and we wanted to wait until the end of the year and then try and work out a way to make a statement to our fans.”
The couple decided to make a public statement regarding their separation.
“When the media first called I think initially I thought, ‘Oh no – they don’t really know what’s going on,'” said Watkins.
“And then as the hours kept going by I kept getting more calls and I thought, ‘Oh, OK – I think people know more than we thought they did.'”