Purple Wiggle Lachlan Gillespie reveals relationship friction came from work pressures
PURPLE Wiggle Lachlan Gillespie has spoken out about the friction between himself and former partner Emma Watkins, breaking his silence on the “amicable split” on the ABC’s Australian Story on Monday night.
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PURPLE Wiggle Lachlan Gillespie has spoken out about the friction between himself and former partner Emma Watkins.
After announcing their apparently amicable split last month, Gillespie broke his silence on the ABC’s Australian Story.
Yellow Wiggle Watkins, who revealed in The Daily Telegraph that she initiated the split, has attempted to smooth any suggestion of negativity between the pair, but Gillespie was more open on Monday night’s episode.
“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.
“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.”
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Watkins — whose rise as the yellow Wiggle has made her the most popular member — had only praise for Gillespie.
“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 Daily Telegraph broke the news of the split and the couple decided to make a public statement.
“When the media first called I think initially I thought, ‘Oh, no — they don’t really know what’s going on’,” Watkins said.
“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’.”