Lachlan Gillespie

Lachlan Gillespie
Gillespie at the 2014 ARIA Music Awards, Sydney, 26 November 2014
Background information
Birth name	Lachlan Gillespie
Born	1985/1986 (age 31–32) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Genres	Children's music
Occupation(s)	Singer, actor, musician
Instruments	Vocals, piano
Years active	2009–present
Labels	ABC Music
Associated acts	The Wiggles

Lachlan Gillespie is an Australian singer, musician, and actor. He is a singer in The Wiggles and wears the purple skivvy.

Gillespie, whose nickname is "Lachy", began playing the piano at the age of four, and started formal singing training when he was 12. 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. He has been a vocal and drama coach for children between the ages of four and 13.

Gillespie 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.

Two years into their relationship, Gillespie and fellow Wiggles performer Emma Watkins publicly acknowledged their romantic involvement in March 2015. In May 2015, the couple announced their engagement. They married on 8 April 2016 at Hopewood House in Bowral in New South Wales, Australia.

Gillespie hosts the short-form television show Lachy! which aired on ABC in 2016. It contains episode shorts of him as Lachy Wiggle.