August 28, 2025 • 10 mins
Greg Page Opens Up About Having A Heart Attack In His 40s & His New Role In 'Annie'
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I Heard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Robin and Kids Now with Correo the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You may know our next guest as the original Yellow
Wiggle Half.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Potato, half Potato Target jug a big red car, but
today he's swapping his gibbees for the Oval Office, starring
as President Franklin D.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Roosevelt in the Australian production of Annie. It's Greg Page.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Welcome mate.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Now you are I bet you hear this all the time.
You are about a foot taller than I expected.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're a big man.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Yes, a lot of people don't realize. And yes there's
somebody here. Luckily I see with yeah, oh jesure bg,
well not as big as.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You did you play forty growing up?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
No, gosh, no afl no. I started out playing soccer
as a youngster. Then I transitioned into cricket, became a
sort of medium.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I can tell you that my kids are now sort
of they are Yellow Greg Wiggle fans grew up with
and we got to meet you and the Wiggles backstage somewhere,
and my littlest boy was about three, took one look
at you.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You were so big, he bolted.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Because Murray is quite tall as well. Anthony's not too short. Yeah,
we can have that effect. They are very small.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yes. Now you're here because you're part of a musical.
And this has nothing to do with the Wiggles. No, No,
this is.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Something to do. A lot of people will know this musical.
It's Annie the musical.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, and you're playing President Roosevelt. Correct in a wheelchair?
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Did you have to do the maneuvering?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
No, I get pushed around. I don't have to do anything.
It's the dream gig, particularly after all those years of
jumping around on stage and I now do dodgy knees.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
It's the best gig in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah. I've got a baby who's now she's thirteen months.
So I'm writing Wiggletown.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Congratulations and in all fronts.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And I find myself singing the songs all the time.
You know, I was singing mashed Potato and my six
year old ago Dad.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's just us.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I heard stories of people who get in their car
to go to work. They're driving to work, and they
get all the way to work before they realize they've
been listening to the Wiggles and no kids there, I've
heard it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, I was doing that for Montana.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
There's a playlist and because there was all the old songs,
I'm just doing map.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
DA and then I'll jump in the next day earlier
train and I'm like, just listen. I'm like, I just
spent twenty five minutes listening to the Wiggles. Do you
still sing them in your head? Are they in your
head forever?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I don't think I sing them without necessity.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Yeah, they live there.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
You know a lot of the songs I can still
remember all the lyrics for. I mean, you've got to remember,
it's nearly twenty years since I left the group. Now,
I left, you know six. I went back for a
year in twenty twelve. But the hits, I mean, it's
not like there's many words, Like there's twelve words in.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
The remember, correct.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
We spoke with Emma member she's got her show. She
was in here the other day.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Have you two resolved your beef?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Emma and I? Yeah, a beef. What's our beef? SI?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I mean, are you trying to pretend that you go
to see each other across the room and just squint
your eyes.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Just a little bit of age.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
You guys wanted me to wear a skirt for years
and years, but you know, but it is cooling seeing everyone.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
From the Whigs trying new things.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
And so for this, I don't remember your role in this,
but I know that you get to sing probably as
part of one of the most famous songs from Annie.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
You know your stuff. I certainly do, and I'm thrilled
that I get to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, you do it a couple of times, though, don't you.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yes, in the White House, Annie comes into the White
House and she starts singing Tomorrow, which she has already
sung earlier in the show, and then I get the
cabinet to join in singing and I sing along as well. So, yeah,
it's a great moment in the show. If people know it.
If you don't know it, come along and see it
because it's it's it's a great message the sun will
come out tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
How many times working you sung that in the last Oh.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
So we're into about our one hundred and sixtieth show.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I reckon when it's in now, so the song gets
sung three or four times each show.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I've heard it like six hundred. Wow. Well, I don't
get sick of it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The Wiggles, right, I was just about to say that
is revenge.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Bye Bye Bear had a great song. Lookod bye, you're there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, it's a cracker and you're ready to make it six.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Hundred wo hang on, we're going to do it.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Is this for me?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Because you think I don't know the lyrics?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
The lyrics fantastic lyrics from Annie.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Because we like to do this every Friday.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
We reenact scene from film and of course and we
have a complete with song and so we.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Butchered the hell out of most of them.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
And thanks for the warning to warm up, ye right
early in the morning. Guys, have a bit of water.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We'll come back in a second.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's okay, Greg, none of us can really.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Nor can I, as you're about to find out.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
With Robin Kipp and Coriotes.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yes, we love to do this on a Friday morning.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
We are back with that Greg Page yellow Wiggle, who
is here for any the music hall which is going
to be at Lyric Theater q PAK toward the end
of the year started next year, so December twenty seven
through until January thirty one, and the famous song Tomorrow
we're about to perform, and of.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Course as formal.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And as Roosevelt, you do get a solo in this.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
All right, okay, and be good and Robin, I'm going
to throw this on you.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
You can.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
There's a redheaded there's a redheaded lady singing, Robert saying this.
Don't love to be you.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You cant come on, it's so high.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And then you get this already wrong. Here we go.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
You got this, man, The sun will come out tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Bet your bottom dollar tomorrow be just thinking of But
tomorrow is the way the up webs and sorrow.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
To this.
Speaker 9 (07:05):
When I'm stuck with the day that's great and lonely,
I just stick out my chin and grin and say, oh.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Suddle, come out sumrow, hang ontil tomorrow, Come.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
On man, to morrow, Sumorrow.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
I love your to morrow.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You're always odayays.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Robin, rob rub Rub.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I should ask you, though you had a really big
health scare and scared the heck out of Australia.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Heart, how is it?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Heart's good? Thank goodness.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, Like it's five and a half years ago now,
and look at the thing is I had heart disease,
but I didn't know it because it wasn't enough to
cause me problems in everything that I used to do.
I played competition cricket, competition, tennis, and I'd exercise every day.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I had no warning signs, but jumping around on.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
That stage with the Wiggles, a little bit of pluk
broke off and clotted and block off the artery caused
a heart attack and sent me into cardiac arrest.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
While on stage, well, we just finished.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
The show, luckily, and just off stage, luckily.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
We feel it coming.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Did you feel something was happening?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
No, Look, I do remember that last song that we
did was hard work, harder work than usual, and I
thought it was just because I hadn't done it for
a while. But I think it was the heart attack
building up perhaps. But look, luckily for me, there were
people around who knew how to do CPR, and there
was access to an AED at the venue that we
were performing out That saved my life. And I'm glad
to see. As I came in this building, you've got
(08:57):
a defibrillator down which everybody should know that it's there,
and everybody should know that they can use it. You
don't have to be trained. If you ever need to
use it, just turn it on. It'll talk to you
and tell you what to do. You could say somebody's
life like mine was, and that's just so valiable.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And I think the important thing, which is why I
want to bring it up, is heart disease is the
number one killer. It's massive, yeah, of men and women.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Look, I think a lot of females in particular may
get misdiagnosed with heart disease sometimes or heart attacks when
they occur, because their symptoms may be different. And you know,
in the case of somebody like myself, if that heart
attack gets so bad, it can turn into a cardiac arrest,
and you need to be able to do CPR on
somebody you love. So you know, I'd urge people to
learn how to do it and just be confident enough
(09:43):
to step up and do something, because you know, I've
had five bonus years of living now that I wouldn't
have had otherwise, and I've got six kids and I've
now seen two beautiful granddaughters born.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So and you're not that old, great, No, I.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Was forty eight at the time, I literally the day
before and then drop there the following day.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
So yeah, I've had five extra years.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So wow.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, it's a big deal. And we don't talk about it.
kIPS had some heart stuff. My father died of a
heart attack, so I absolutely not, you know, I.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Know, we've got to just tell people we do.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
We've got to talk about It's like every everything. Unless
we talk about it, people aren't aware. So yeah, thanks
for that.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, and look at you. If you're in a wheelchair
doing ammal
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Correct dog needs, but good heart right, you can fix
them
I Heard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Robin and Kids Now with Correo the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You may know our next guest as the original Yellow
Wiggle Half.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Potato, half Potato Target jug a big red car, but
today he's swapping his gibbees for the Oval Office, starring
as President Franklin D.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Roosevelt in the Australian production of Annie. It's Greg Page.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Welcome mate.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Now you are I bet you hear this all the time.
You are about a foot taller than I expected.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You're a big man.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Yes, a lot of people don't realize. And yes there's
somebody here. Luckily I see with yeah, oh jesure bg,
well not as big as.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You did you play forty growing up?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
No, gosh, no afl no. I started out playing soccer
as a youngster. Then I transitioned into cricket, became a
sort of medium.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I can tell you that my kids are now sort
of they are Yellow Greg Wiggle fans grew up with
and we got to meet you and the Wiggles backstage somewhere,
and my littlest boy was about three, took one look
at you.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You were so big, he bolted.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Because Murray is quite tall as well. Anthony's not too short. Yeah,
we can have that effect. They are very small.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yes. Now you're here because you're part of a musical.
And this has nothing to do with the Wiggles. No, No,
this is.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
Something to do. A lot of people will know this musical.
It's Annie the musical.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, and you're playing President Roosevelt. Correct in a wheelchair?
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Did you have to do the maneuvering?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
No, I get pushed around. I don't have to do anything.
It's the dream gig, particularly after all those years of
jumping around on stage and I now do dodgy knees.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
It's the best gig in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah. I've got a baby who's now she's thirteen months.
So I'm writing Wiggletown.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Congratulations and in all fronts.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
And I find myself singing the songs all the time.
You know, I was singing mashed Potato and my six
year old ago Dad.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's just us.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I heard stories of people who get in their car
to go to work. They're driving to work, and they
get all the way to work before they realize they've
been listening to the Wiggles and no kids there, I've
heard it.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, I was doing that for Montana.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
There's a playlist and because there was all the old songs,
I'm just doing map.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
DA and then I'll jump in the next day earlier
train and I'm like, just listen. I'm like, I just
spent twenty five minutes listening to the Wiggles. Do you
still sing them in your head? Are they in your
head forever?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I don't think I sing them without necessity.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Yeah, they live there.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
You know a lot of the songs I can still
remember all the lyrics for. I mean, you've got to remember,
it's nearly twenty years since I left the group. Now,
I left, you know six. I went back for a
year in twenty twelve. But the hits, I mean, it's
not like there's many words, Like there's twelve words in.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
The remember, correct.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
We spoke with Emma member she's got her show. She
was in here the other day.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Have you two resolved your beef?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Emma and I? Yeah, a beef. What's our beef? SI?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I mean, are you trying to pretend that you go
to see each other across the room and just squint
your eyes.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Just a little bit of age.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
You guys wanted me to wear a skirt for years
and years, but you know, but it is cooling seeing everyone.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
From the Whigs trying new things.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
And so for this, I don't remember your role in this,
but I know that you get to sing probably as
part of one of the most famous songs from Annie.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
You know your stuff. I certainly do, and I'm thrilled
that I get to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, you do it a couple of times, though, don't you.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yes, in the White House, Annie comes into the White
House and she starts singing Tomorrow, which she has already
sung earlier in the show, and then I get the
cabinet to join in singing and I sing along as well. So, yeah,
it's a great moment in the show. If people know it.
If you don't know it, come along and see it
because it's it's it's a great message the sun will
come out tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
How many times working you sung that in the last Oh.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
So we're into about our one hundred and sixtieth show.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I reckon when it's in now, so the song gets
sung three or four times each show.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I've heard it like six hundred. Wow. Well, I don't
get sick of it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The Wiggles, right, I was just about to say that
is revenge.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Bye Bye Bear had a great song. Lookod bye, you're there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Yeah, it's a cracker and you're ready to make it six.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Hundred wo hang on, we're going to do it.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
Is this for me?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Because you think I don't know the lyrics?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
The lyrics fantastic lyrics from Annie.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Because we like to do this every Friday.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
We reenact scene from film and of course and we
have a complete with song and so we.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Butchered the hell out of most of them.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
And thanks for the warning to warm up, ye right
early in the morning. Guys, have a bit of water.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We'll come back in a second.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's okay, Greg, none of us can really.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Nor can I, as you're about to find out.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
With Robin Kipp and Coriotes.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yes, we love to do this on a Friday morning.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
We are back with that Greg Page yellow Wiggle, who
is here for any the music hall which is going
to be at Lyric Theater q PAK toward the end
of the year started next year, so December twenty seven
through until January thirty one, and the famous song Tomorrow
we're about to perform, and of.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Course as formal.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And as Roosevelt, you do get a solo in this.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
All right, okay, and be good and Robin, I'm going
to throw this on you.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
You can.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
There's a redheaded there's a redheaded lady singing, Robert saying this.
Don't love to be you.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You cant come on, it's so high.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And then you get this already wrong. Here we go.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
You got this, man, The sun will come out tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Bet your bottom dollar tomorrow be just thinking of But
tomorrow is the way the up webs and sorrow.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
To this.
Speaker 9 (07:05):
When I'm stuck with the day that's great and lonely,
I just stick out my chin and grin and say, oh.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Suddle, come out sumrow, hang ontil tomorrow, Come.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
On man, to morrow, Sumorrow.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
I love your to morrow.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
You're always odayays.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Robin, rob rub Rub.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I should ask you, though you had a really big
health scare and scared the heck out of Australia.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Heart, how is it?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Heart's good? Thank goodness.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, Like it's five and a half years ago now,
and look at the thing is I had heart disease,
but I didn't know it because it wasn't enough to
cause me problems in everything that I used to do.
I played competition cricket, competition, tennis, and I'd exercise every day.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I had no warning signs, but jumping around on.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
That stage with the Wiggles, a little bit of pluk
broke off and clotted and block off the artery caused
a heart attack and sent me into cardiac arrest.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
While on stage, well, we just finished.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
The show, luckily, and just off stage, luckily.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
We feel it coming.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Did you feel something was happening?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
No, Look, I do remember that last song that we
did was hard work, harder work than usual, and I
thought it was just because I hadn't done it for
a while. But I think it was the heart attack
building up perhaps. But look, luckily for me, there were
people around who knew how to do CPR, and there
was access to an AED at the venue that we
were performing out That saved my life. And I'm glad
to see. As I came in this building, you've got
(08:57):
a defibrillator down which everybody should know that it's there,
and everybody should know that they can use it. You
don't have to be trained. If you ever need to
use it, just turn it on. It'll talk to you
and tell you what to do. You could say somebody's
life like mine was, and that's just so valiable.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And I think the important thing, which is why I
want to bring it up, is heart disease is the
number one killer. It's massive, yeah, of men and women.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Look, I think a lot of females in particular may
get misdiagnosed with heart disease sometimes or heart attacks when
they occur, because their symptoms may be different. And you know,
in the case of somebody like myself, if that heart
attack gets so bad, it can turn into a cardiac arrest,
and you need to be able to do CPR on
somebody you love. So you know, I'd urge people to
learn how to do it and just be confident enough
(09:43):
to step up and do something, because you know, I've
had five bonus years of living now that I wouldn't
have had otherwise, and I've got six kids and I've
now seen two beautiful granddaughters born.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
So and you're not that old, great, No, I.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Was forty eight at the time, I literally the day
before and then drop there the following day.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
So yeah, I've had five extra years.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So wow.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, it's a big deal. And we don't talk about it.
kIPS had some heart stuff. My father died of a
heart attack, so I absolutely not, you know, I.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Know, we've got to just tell people we do.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
We've got to talk about It's like every everything. Unless
we talk about it, people aren't aware. So yeah, thanks
for that.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, and look at you. If you're in a wheelchair
doing ammal
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Correct dog needs, but good heart right, you can fix
them
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