The former Yellow Wiggle has left pre-schoolers behind, helping teens manage the family budget in Teenage Boss: Next Level.
Emma Watkins knows a thing or two about setting financial goals. “I remember saving up pocket money to try and have a pet goat, I had a piggy bank that I would put money in,” says Watkins. “Anyway, I never ended up getting a goat – until I was an adult.
Since hanging up her famous yellow skivvy as Emma Wiggle and leaving preschool superstars the Wiggles in 2021, Watkins has had a very busy few years. She launched her children’s character Emma Memma with a focus on sign language and visual communication in 2022, was one of the winners ofin 2023 and this year completed her PhD on artistic integrations of sign language, dance and film editing for children’s screen media.
“I’m just excited because it does feel that people have really jumped on board to want to see more facets of Emma,” says Watkins of her post-Wiggles career. “It is a strange situation to have a career unlike any other, where you are only photographed in one outfit for a long time. Even actors or presenters or performers, that doesn’t happen.“It’s not normal to be photographed like a 1D type of person.
Watkins, who learnt sign language as a child and has researched it for almost a decade, is particularly proud of the fifth episode oftook a big leap as a traditional production company to film an episode with a deaf family that uses sign language as their primary language,” says Watkins. “So one of the episodes is entirely in Auslan, and not with myself having an interpreter, with me being able to sign directly to the family and the team. I’m really excited for people to see that.
“The wardrobe changed throughout the series,” says Watkins. “It started in a more power suit situation, but then as it went on I realised that, of course, I would wear a headband and a flower in my hair and cute little bee earrings that I had at home. I got to wear a pink suit for one of the episodes and then this really nice orange velvet, I was like, ‘I want this. This is like Emma Memma nighttime.
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