Purple Wiggle Lachlan Gillespie has snapped up a new home in in Naremburn on Sydney’s lower North Shore, not far from where ex-wife Emma Watkins recently settled on a property.
Wiggles watchers will already know that Yellow Wiggle Watkins split from Purple Wiggle Gillespie in August last year, slightly over two years after their much publicised April 2016 marriage.
Watkins and Gillespie had sold their apartment in the harbour-side suburb of Wollstonecraft, for $2.13 million in 2017, before they announced they were going their separate ways after a five-year relationship.
Last month Watkins bought back into the Sydney property market, spending $1.35 million on a 1960s home overlooking bushland in East Ryde in the city’s northern suburbs.
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Now Purple Wiggle Gillespie has bought back on the North shore market, spending $2 million on a fully renovated semi in Naremburn, also on Sydney’s lower North Shore. The 1915 home, which last traded at $1.39 million in 2013, has two bedrooms and adjoining dining and kitchen, which flow to the sunroom.
Gillespie had been out of the market since selling the Wollstonecraft apartment. In 2014 the couple had paid $1.45 million for the three-bedroom apartment in the 1896 converted English-style manor Ben Ledi.
Watkin’s new East Ryde home is set on a sprawling 1330 sqm block, including a rockery garden. Described as having a beach house-like style, it has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
It’s not far from where she grew up. Last year her parents, Rick and Kathryn, sold the Ryde family home they owned since the 1980s for $1.66 million to make a tree-change to the Southern Highlands.
The pair has remained good friends as they continue to tour with The Wiggles, embracing their split “as a very positive change in our relationship”, and citing their incredible friendship after seven years of touring together before their marriage.
The group heads to the US for their first show in Seattle next weekend, finishing their tour in Canada in October.
The tour comes on the back of the release of a new album, Party Time, the Wiggles’ 53rd studio album and the 18th with the current line-up of Gillespie, Watkins, Simon Pryce, and original band member Anthony Field.
Gillespie took the purple skivvy in 2013, replacing “Wake Up” Jeff Fatt, but had joined The Wiggles in 2009, touring with the Dorothy The Dinosaur’s Travelling Show as Captain Feathersword. He then became a Wiggly Dancer and Wags the Dog during the group’s regular tour.
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