New Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins: ‘If I can show kids how to be natural, that would mean the world to me’

The 15-year-old Ethiopian-born Latin dance star, who is replacing Emma Watkins in the popular children's group, is pumped to be hitting the road with her childhood idols

The colour scheme remains the same but fans of the Wiggles will notice some big changes with the recruitment of Tsehay (pronounced se-hi") Hawkins into the lineup of the venerable preschool edutainment phenomenon.

Taking over the yellow skivvy from Emma Watkins, who has retired after 11 years with the troupe, Hawkins, 15, is the youngest member of the Wiggles by far (the group's remaining founder-performer Anthony Field is 58) and the first woman of colour in its frontline quartet.