Ahead of their Wiggle Groove Tour, Simon, John and Lucia talk to Ben Boyce about fame and family, whether they’ll be supporting the All Blacks this weekend, and how many skivvies they brought to New Zealand. The Wiggles are back, with Lucia Field, John Pearce and Simon Pryce visiting the Herald in Auckland ahead of their first show tomorrow. “It’s always good to be in New Zealand,” says Pryce.
“We always catch up with Robert Rakete , he’s a good friend of The Wiggles.” Boyce gives them a rendition of his version of their hit song Big Red Car , with a pulled-from-the-headlines twist: swapping the car for a plane as a reference to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s ongoing troubles with the Defence Force plane. The official Wiggles verdict? “That’s skux,” says Pearce, the Purple Wiggle, showing an impressive knowledge of Kiwi slang.
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