{"id":625287,"date":"2026-10-09T11:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625287\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:06:14","slug":"the-wiggles-the-wiggles-are-still-massive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625287\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wiggles: The Wiggles are still massive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wiggles are returning to New Zealand for the first time in two years.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian children&#8217;s entertainment superstars remain one of the biggest names in family entertainment, dominating streaming charts and winning over new generations of fans.<\/p>\n<p>Among the current line-up is Lachlan Gillespie, better known as Lachy Wiggle, who has become one of the group&#8217;s most popular performers.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Heather du Plessis-Allan to talk the return to the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wiggles are returning to New Zealand for the first time in two years. The Australian children&#8217;s entertainment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[307228,307227,111,43,139,69,307226],"class_list":["post-625287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-childrensentertainment","tag-heatherduplessis-allan","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-thewiggles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}