More About Sam Moran, New Yellow Wiggle
November 30, 2006 by Lei
Filed under News and Links about Children's Things
Lest Sam Moran thinks we aren’t welcoming him into The Wiggles family, here’s a bit more about him from The Australian.
“It’s always been a little daunting obviously filling in for him, but it’s just a great new challenge for me and I’m just looking forward to that,” Moran said today.
Moran, born in Wagga Wagga and educated at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, joined The Wiggles team in 1998 as host of the Dorothy the Dinosaur Show.
Since then, he has also spent time as a “Wiggly dancer, and a Wiggly band member”, and is married to former Dorothy the Dinosaur star Lyn Stuckey.
It was four years ago, when Page first started exhibiting symptoms of his condition, that Moran became his understudy.
Sounds like Sam is more than qualified to be the new yellow Wiggle. Good luck, Sam!!
That’s absolutely untrue! In addition to owning just about every DVD the Wiggles have released, the kids and I watch at least 2 Wiggles episodes a day. Children of every ethnicity are included in their programs (including handicapped children – imagine that!) What they don’t do is balance out every segment of every episode to have one Asian child, one black child, one middle-eastern child, one white child, one Aboriginal child, and one Native American child, and so on and so forth. I believe this is because The Wiggles are genuinely more interested in spending their energies towards having a program that is fun, upbeat, innocent and educational than being politically correct, like so many other shows for toddlers these days. Interesting that my children, being of a minority group themselves, prefer the Wiggles to any other TV program and could really care less what ethnicity the kids on the show from day to day are – they just wanna wiggle!
Lacey: Thanks for your comment! It’s been a while since my son watched The Wiggles but now that you mention it, you’re absolutely right!!
The Wiggles are from Australia where people don’t count the number of skin tones on every episode like here in the US. Their focus is on entertaining and educating young children. And yes, I have seen black children on the show. Good grief, leave The Wiggles alone and go count skin color somewhere else.
Laura: Thanks for your comment. I hope you don’t think we are obsessed about skin color here at Play Library. I am Chinese-American and Kerri is Mexican-American so we are a multi-cultural team that embraces every color, race, nationality, ethnicity,…, you name it!
Very well said, Laura!
The Wiggles show is gered towards CHILDREN – innocent minds. If people begin to focus their children on how many people of race there are, or what race got excluded we are passing on the same racial mentality. Some people only have the time and energy to pick out ONLY the negative, instead of looking at the big picture – its a kid’s show!!! There always has to be someone thats not happy, and tries to ruin it for others…sad. The Wiggles are great and I will continue to watch them.
greg was the best now i don’t want to brag but when i went to the wiggles concert sam was THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! any one want to talk to me about the wiggles here is my email adress slitherysnakes@hotmail.co.uk