# Bonus: The Purple Wiggle Clarifies His New Nickname

An episode of [Jase, Lauren & Clint](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1734322806), 25 Oct 2026, 7:29.

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## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Let's say hello to our next guest!
[0:02] Speaker 2: Our next guest is a singer, a dancer, an entertainer,
[0:05] Speaker 2: and the Purple Wiggle! Somebody put him in our show
[0:12] Speaker 2: calendar as the Hot Wiggle! How dare they be so
[0:15] Speaker 2: accurate with their description! Please welcome to the show, John Hughes!
[0:20] Speaker 1: No, it is not Anthony with the gold teeth. It
[0:23] Speaker 1: is John Pearce. Good morning.
[0:24] Speaker 3: Good morning.
[0:25] Speaker 4: How are you doing, guys?
[0:25] Speaker 1: Great to be here. Big strong John, welcome to the show.
[0:28] Speaker 5: Well, I was going to say, yeah, one of our
[0:31] Speaker 5: bosses in here just walked in before you popped up
[0:33] Speaker 5: on Zoom and said, oh, my God, my husband saw
[0:35] Speaker 5: big strong John at the park yesterday and all the
[0:38] Speaker 5: mums were going crazy.
[0:39] Speaker 6: What did all the mums say?
[0:40] Speaker 5: And then you popped up on Zoom and I've never
[0:42] Speaker 5: seen her run so fast.
[0:43] Speaker 6: She scurried off.
[0:44] Speaker 4: We said, do you want to say hi? She's like, oh,
[0:45] Speaker 4: my God, he's here.
[0:46] Speaker 6: I'm out.
[0:47] Speaker 4: At the park, yeah. I go to the park all
[0:48] Speaker 4: the time to play on the slide.
[0:49] Speaker 6: Mainly with my son.
[0:51] Speaker 5: Just to hang out with the moms.
[0:52] Speaker 6: Do you get the reaction from the moms a fair bit?
[0:55] Speaker 6: Big strong John?
[0:56] Speaker 4: Look, it's been happening online for the past few years
[0:59] Speaker 4: and at shows, and it's been quite an incredible phenomenon, actually.
[1:03] Speaker 4: When I joined the Wiggles, it was the last response
[1:04] Speaker 4: I think I'd be getting, and the attention from the parents,
[1:07] Speaker 4: like moms, dads, aunties, and uncles, it's been quite flattering.
[1:12] Speaker 1: Do the moms just go a bit?
[1:14] Speaker 4: All of a sudden.
[1:15] Speaker 5: They're more interested than the kids.
[1:17] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:17] Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, moms are the hardest working
[1:18] Speaker 4: people in the world. And I think you've got to
[1:20] Speaker 4: give it to them. They can say and do what
[1:21] Speaker 4: they like. It's, She's got to embrace it.
[1:23] Speaker 5: And other mums love you even more.
[1:25] Speaker 1: Sarah, come in here for a second.
[1:27] Speaker 6: Come on, Sarah. Come on.
[1:28] Speaker 1: I just want to see if she changes. I just
[1:31] Speaker 1: want to see if she changes. She's going to go
[1:32] Speaker 1: like this. Do we got headphones? I just want to
[1:34] Speaker 1: see if she changes as a person. Yeah, there's headphones there.
[1:36] Speaker 1: Put your headphones on and your professional voice.
[1:38] Speaker 6: Now, you're a park mum. Have you seen Big Strong
[1:40] Speaker 6: John in the park?
[1:41] Speaker 1: I haven't, John.
[1:42] Speaker 4: I am so sorry about this.
[1:43] Speaker 1: It was just that my husband called me yesterday.
[1:46] Speaker 5: He had the kids and he said, oh, my God,
[1:48] Speaker 5: we just saw Big Strong John.
[1:49] Speaker 6: Yeah, we told him that.
[1:50] Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know.
[1:52] Speaker 6: Then you grab the car keys and off you went.
[1:54] Speaker 4: I just spend a lot of time on the road
[1:57] Speaker 4: just walking with my family. I'm very out and about,
[2:00] Speaker 4: especially around the neighborhood.
[2:01] Speaker 5: All I thought was you poor thing, and I won't
[2:03] Speaker 5: reveal where you were because everyone will suddenly start to
[2:05] Speaker 5: hassle you in your home area.
[2:06] Speaker 4: No, it's fine.
[2:07] Speaker 1: It's not like that at all. Anything you want to
[2:09] Speaker 1: say to John? No, you do a great job, mate.
[2:11] Speaker 6: What's your favorite Wiggles song?
[2:15] Speaker 1: I'm a bit impartial to a chugga-chugga big red car.
[2:18] Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that song. That is a good one.
[2:19] Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Catchy.
[2:20] Speaker 4: I'm going to head out now because.
[2:22] Speaker 6: I've actually got a different job to this.
[2:25] Speaker 2: Lovely to meet you, mate.
[2:25] Speaker 1: Nice to see you. Now, that was so awkward.
[2:28] Speaker 5: Hey, big strong John, do the other Wiggles get jealous?
[2:31] Speaker 5: Because if, like, in this trio someone was just like, oh,
[2:34] Speaker 5: you're the hot one about one of us, doesn't happen.
[2:36] Speaker 4: But if they did, they'd be like, hello, what about.
[2:39] Speaker 1: The rest of us?
[2:40] Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you know, in the Wiggles world, jealousy doesn't
[2:42] Speaker 4: really exist. It's usually just happiness and.
[2:45] Speaker 6: Joy.
[2:45] Speaker 5: We're happy that you're so handsome and we're not.
[2:47] Speaker 6: Well, John, when I did Men's Health, what I would
[2:50] Speaker 6: say is that... Here we go.
[2:52] Speaker 1: Here we go. All those years ago.
[2:53] Speaker 3: No, I was just going to comment on your resume.
[2:56] Speaker 3: So as well as doing The Wiggles, of course, Justice Crew, Jace.
[3:02] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[3:03] Speaker 6: Banger.
[3:04] Speaker 1: They played Nova's Red Room.
[3:06] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[3:06] Speaker 4: Really?
[3:07] Speaker 1: Yeah, back in the day.
[3:08] Speaker 6: Back in the day.
[3:08] Speaker 4: Back in the day.
[3:09] Speaker 6: Australian Ninja Warrior, of course. And now you're appearing.
[3:13] Speaker 5: Did you compete on it?
[3:14] Speaker 4: Or did you host it?
[3:15] Speaker 6: Yeah, I did.
[3:16] Speaker 4: I didn't do very well. I don't like bringing it
[3:17] Speaker 4: up a lot.
[3:19] Speaker 5: Oh, well, you can't be good at everything.
[3:20] Speaker 7: Do you ever take your little kid to bounce and
[3:22] Speaker 7: look up at their little setup and go, you know what,
[3:23] Speaker 7: I could take this on today?
[3:24] Speaker 4: Not yet, but we do jump on the couch a
[3:26] Speaker 4: lot and do reminisce on when I could have improved.
[3:30] Speaker 3: And now this new campaign for Milk Run, where you
[3:32] Speaker 3: are basically being pitched as the hot wiggle.
[3:36] Speaker 6: Tell us about it.
[3:37] Speaker 4: Look, I was probably more excited with working with Milk
[3:39] Speaker 4: Run because I actually used milk run twice a day
[3:42] Speaker 4: just to order groceries and stuff, just being a new parent.
[3:45] Speaker 4: It's helped us a lot in the last few years. But, um,
[3:47] Speaker 4: when I saw the concept on the actual ad, it
[3:50] Speaker 4: made me even more excited because I'm like, this is,
[3:52] Speaker 4: you know, this is such a bizarre thing that's been
[3:54] Speaker 4: happening for the past few years. And, um, we haven't
[3:56] Speaker 4: really spoken too much about it. And, um, Yeah, it
[3:59] Speaker 4: just ties it all in together.
[4:00] Speaker 1: I haven't seen the ad.
[4:01] Speaker 5: It's pretty funny. So he tries to go out of
[4:03] Speaker 5: his house and all the mums are there screaming and
[4:05] Speaker 5: yelling at his front door. And he can't get out
[4:08] Speaker 5: the door because the mums are.
[4:08] Speaker 4: All like, oh my God, it's Big Sean John.
[4:10] Speaker 1: That's funny.
[4:11] Speaker 6: And he gets the rig out as well.
[4:13] Speaker 1: It's funny.
[4:14] Speaker 4: Yeah, the arms are out there. But, you know, I
[4:16] Speaker 4: just came in from the gym. You don't train with
[4:17] Speaker 4: a jumper on.
[4:18] Speaker 3: John, what's the Instagram DMs like?
[4:24] Speaker 4: Oh. Look, it's good they have like a message request
[4:27] Speaker 4: section where you don't have to check it.
[4:28] Speaker 5: But we all do, let's be honest.
[4:30] Speaker 4: Every now and then we have a peruse.
[4:31] Speaker 6: There you go, hit.
[4:32] Speaker 4: You have a little just check in there. Yeah, I
[4:35] Speaker 4: don't get too heavy involved in checking the DMs. It's
[4:38] Speaker 4: usually a bunch of videos, you know, of children just
[4:40] Speaker 4: dancing and doing, that's the big strong John of the
[4:42] Speaker 4: Wiggles and yeah, a bunch of holes and messages.
[4:46] Speaker 1: Were you worried when he said videos?
[4:47] Speaker 5: Sorry, I'm not in real Wiggles territory, right? Because I
[4:50] Speaker 5: don't have kids. But do the kids call you big
[4:53] Speaker 5: strong John or just the mums?
[4:55] Speaker 4: They do. No, you know what? My son actually started
[4:57] Speaker 4: calling me Big Strong John Daddy. I didn't tell him
[4:59] Speaker 4: to say that.
[5:01] Speaker 1: Because it's all about nutrition and eating well.
[5:04] Speaker 4: Oh. Yeah.
[5:05] Speaker 1: Okay.
[5:06] Speaker 5: The kids aren't saying, oh, that's the hot wiggle.
[5:07] Speaker 1: They're saying Big Strong John.
[5:09] Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[5:10] Speaker 1: It's not Mr.
[5:10] Speaker 6: Protein.
[5:11] Speaker 4: It's going to get very weird very quickly. But it's
[5:13] Speaker 4: definitely all about health and fitness and eating well and
[5:17] Speaker 4: becoming strong. And even though I'm one of the smallest
[5:19] Speaker 4: male wiggles, I'm very strong.
[5:21] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[5:26] Speaker 5: I love the Wiggles. Honestly, it's not in my wheelhouse,
[5:29] Speaker 5: but the Wiggles do bring, like, immense amount of joy.
[5:32] Speaker 4: If you see them, I'm like, oh.
[5:33] Speaker 1: The Wiggles.
[5:34] Speaker 7: Also, I know you guys are about to embark on tour.
[5:36] Speaker 7: Every couple of months, you see, like, huge Hollywood A-listers
[5:39] Speaker 7: backstage at the Wiggles wanting to meet you guys. Like,
[5:42] Speaker 7: you would have met some big names over the years.
[5:44] Speaker 4: Yeah, Robert De Niro came to one of our shows
[5:45] Speaker 4: last year and he brought his family. And we were
[5:48] Speaker 4: just as starstruck as he seemed to be to us.
[5:52] Speaker 4: And I was thinking, Will– We're just in this room.
[5:54] Speaker 6: Well, he's a new dad, isn't he?
[5:55] Speaker 5: Yeah. He's got about 19 children, doesn't he?
[5:58] Speaker 1: No, I think you're thinking of Alec Baldwin.
[6:02] Speaker 6: I think De Niro has quite a few kids, but
[6:04] Speaker 6: he's an old new dad.
[6:05] Speaker 5: A vast range of ages.
[6:07] Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right.
[6:08] Speaker 5: Did he have the 35-year-old kids there or just the three-year-olds?
[6:11] Speaker 1: No, no, no.
[6:11] Speaker 4: Just the young ones that are watching the Wiggles now.
[6:13] Speaker 4: And he posts a lot about. Watching the Wiggles, and yeah,
[6:16] Speaker 4: he says a lot of nice things about... Cool guy.
[6:18] Speaker 4: Very nice, very nice, and very casual. But for an A-lister,
[6:21] Speaker 4: he just seems like a regular guy.
[6:23] Speaker 3: Now, forgive me for the badge that you would wear.
[6:28] Speaker 3: That is as a DILF. Yep. Because our 132410, if
[6:33] Speaker 3: you know a DILF, by the way.
[6:35] Speaker 4: Oh, you want to dob in a DILF?
[6:36] Speaker 6: Dob in a DILF. Would you consider yourself a DILF?
[6:40] Speaker 4: Define DILF.
[6:41] Speaker 6: That's a really good question.
[6:42] Speaker 1: We are out of time.
[6:43] Speaker 6: Lauren, what's a DILF?
[6:46] Speaker 4: It's a dad.
[6:49] Speaker 3: I.
[6:50] Speaker 4: Who plays at the park.
[6:51] Speaker 6: That is handsome. Like to have fun with.
[6:53] Speaker 1: Like to have fun with. Like to have fun with.
[6:55] Speaker 1: There we go.
[6:56] Speaker 5: Dad I'd like to have fun with.
[6:57] Speaker 7: Well, John Pearce is on the air with us this morning.
[6:59] Speaker 7: The Purple Wiggle, a.k.a. Big Strong John. Good for you, mate,
[7:03] Speaker 7: for lending yourself to this milk run campaign and having
[7:06] Speaker 7: a bit of fun with it.
[7:07] Speaker 1: No worries. Thank you. You're a good sport, John. We
[7:09] Speaker 1: love you. Thanks for joining us, mate.
[7:10] Speaker 4: Thank you.
[7:10] Speaker 6: See ya.
[7:11] Speaker 1: See ya. 132410 is our number. We are asking.
[7:14] Speaker 4: Dobby Nadilf.
[7:17] Speaker 6: You know what I want.
[7:20] Speaker 1: Jace, Lauren and Clint.
[7:21] Speaker 4: Wake up feeling good.
[7:23] Speaker 1: Jace, Lauren and Clint.
[7:24] Speaker 5: Follow them on the socials.

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