The original Yellow Wiggle wasn't far from the minds of his bandmates as they took to the stage without him on Saturday night for their second sold-out bushfire fundraiser, a day after he suffered a heart attack on stage.
Greg Page, 48, was rushed to hospital on Friday night after collapsing at the end of The Wiggles over 18s reunion show at Castle Hill RSL in Sydney's north-west.
An off-duty nurse who was in the audience with her parents has been credited with saving Page's life after she worked on Page for 20 minutes, performing CPR and using the club's defibrillator.
“He wasn’t breathing so I just went in and did a little CPR and then someone handed me the defibrillator,” Grace Jones, 23, said on Saturday, adding that it was "really scary".
Asked if she had a message for the Yellow Wiggle, Ms Jones, who has been a Wiggles fan since childhood, said she hoped his chest wasn't "too sore".
In a press conference on Saturday, NSW Ambulance paramedic Brian Parsell said Page had experienced a blockage of a blood vessel to the heart, leading to a cardiac arrest.
"It was only through the efforts of bystanders before we arrived that he is alive today," Mr Parsell said.
Nurse Grace Jones and ICU paramedic Brian Parsell. Source: AAP
"It was an extraordinary story of survival".
But on Saturday night the second concert went ahead after the group posted a photo of Page smiling with his thumb up in hospital and said his "main concern was that the show tonight should go on".
"Let's do it for Greg whilst raising much-needed funds," they said at midday.
The current Yellow Wiggle, also known as Emma Wiggle, took Page's place while some of the other group members donned yellow skivvies in tribute.
Emma Watkins, the first female Wiggle, joined the popular children's band in 2012 after Page was forced to leave the group due to an orthostatic intolerance diagnosis, which can result in fainting, blurry vision and nausea when forced to stand for long periods of time.
The current Wiggles group, including current Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins and original Blue Wiggle Anthony Field. Source: AAP
Page had previously left the group due to health concerns in 2006, before returning for a brief stint.
The original Wiggles band, which formed in 1991, included Page, Anthony Field, Murray Cook and Jeff Fatt. Field, the Blue Wiggle, is the only original member still in the group.
An audience member tweeted on Saturday night that Field had teared up on stage due to Page's absence.
"Murray introduced himself and Anthony started crying as Greg couldn’t introduce himself and he was next," they wrote.
"That was a really moving concert. I know it ended up not quite being what I initially anticipated it to be, but it was all the more memorable for it."
Speaking to Nine News, Field said Page had "no pulse" and wasn't breathing when he collapsed towards the end of the show.
"The guy's [Page] amazing, he's such a positive man and his family is with him," he said.
Both concerts were live-streamed, with all proceeds going to WIRES and the Australian Red Cross to assist with the recovery efforts following this summer's horrific bushfires.
