{"id":16835,"date":"2012-08-26T20:16:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T01:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=16835"},"modified":"2022-03-28T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:54:23","slug":"the-sleepy-purple-wiggle-jeff-fatt-retires-a-fitzness-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/the-sleepy-purple-wiggle-jeff-fatt-retires-a-fitzness-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sleepy Purple Wiggle Jeff Fatt Retires: A Fitzness Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 21 years of making children squeal with laughter while performing with <a title=\"Meet the New Wiggles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/meet-the-new-wiggles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wiggles<\/a>, the sleepy Wiggle, Jeff Fatt, is retiring. At almost 60 years young, he&#8217;s turning over his purple skivvy (shirt) to <a title=\"Wake Up with this Short Series of Yoga Moves\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wake-up-with-this-short-series-of-yoga-moves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lachy Gillespie,\u00a0 <\/a>and in this interview he tells why he&#8217;s retiring and what he has planned for the days ahead. Along with Jeff, red Wiggle Murray Cook and yellow Wiggle Greg Page are retiring too. I and the rest of the world will miss you Jeff! Thanks for all the happy fun. New private interviews with Murray and Greg will be published soon as well.<\/p>\n<p>For old times sake, <a title=\"Surfing on the BOSU with Jeff Fatt of The Wiggles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/surfing-on-the-bosu-with-jeff-fatt-of-the-wiggles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out the very first interview I ever did with Jeff in 2008. <\/a>We surfed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Fitzness\/218599521492381?ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mmTGJMidLGY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 21 years of making children squeal with laughter while performing with The Wiggles, the sleepy Wiggle, Jeff Fatt, is retiring. 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