Wiggle recovering in hospital after on-stage heart attack
Two Wiggles cast members and a nurse in the audience saved the life of Yellow Wiggle Greg Page after he suffered a cardiac arrest during the band’s bush-fire relief concert in Sydney on Friday night.
Page remains in hospital, but was awake and talking by the early hours of yesterday, The Wiggles manager Paul Field told Seven News.
Field praised those who came to
Page’s aid before emergency services arrived, saying they saved Page’s life when he collapsed about 10pm.
“A nurse in the audience took charge but two of our cast — Steve the drummer and Kim who works in our office — did CPR on him. They saved his life.”
Page stopped breathing a number of times and a defibrillator was used on him three times, Field said.
He was able to see Page in hospital after 3am and found the 48-year-old groggy unable and to remember much, he said.
But the Wiggles original — who reunited with other original members of the children’s group for the soldout concert — was thinking of his fans.
“He said, ‘Did I finish the show?’ I said, ‘Yes mate, you finished the show. Bit of a melodramatic exit, but you did finish the show’.”
After Page’s collapse, the other band members returned to the stage to sing Hot Potato.
“We’re going to sing it for Greg and hope he gets better real quick,” Blue
Wiggle Anthony Field said.
Page has suffered from fainting spells and chronic fatigue in the past. He hung up his yellow skivvy in 2006 after being diagnosed with orthostatic intolerance, which left him unable to perform and needing a cane to walk.
The concert was the first time the band’s founding members had played together since 2012.