A punishing touring schedule that left time for few extracurricular activities - sometimes playing in 21 different towns in 21 days - facilitated this situation. As did pressure to ''uphold the kind of Wiggle image that was expected of me - the good guy'', which, he writes, often led him to not voicing his feelings on matters and becoming ''gullible, a pushover and easy to manipulate''. But this tendency to ''squash'' his own desires and needs stems from his childhood, growing up in Northmead in Sydney's western suburbs.
He writes of feeling racked with low self-esteem from as early as age eight, when the girls he fancied at Baulkham Hills Primary School didn't respond in kind. And the feeling was further compounded when, at age 16, he started going grey and wondered if ''no one will want me''. Indeed, even when he was in the Wiggles, ''I wasn't this confident guy. I'd get on stage with the Wiggles and yeah I was confident, because.
I knew what I was doing. But in my own life, I had my own personal struggles; I had major problems, growing up, with self-esteem and self-confidence. These admissions seem far more personal than any of the rumours that had previously circulated about him in the tabloids. Indeed, his parents, he says, ''probably won't know the depth of the whole self-confidence thing'' until they read the book. Partly, Page says, it's to get closure on the uncomfortable experience of having been torn, for so long, between ''Greg Page and Greg Wiggle''.
It's not an image on stage, not an image on a DVD; there's a person that actually wears the skivvy, a human being with faults and flaws. It would just be great if people could just be who they are and accept others for who they are as well. Now, five years since leaving the group, Page is finally happy, not just professionally - as was the case before - but in all areas of his life. He remarried, last year, to Vanessa Reid, a nurse he had a crush on at school. They have a daughter, Lara, who is nearly two, and are due to have a son in a matter of weeks.
He is practising music again, having played cover songs at a few local charity concerts, and hopes to record a second solo album.
He's also researching the possibility of ''becoming involved in a life-saving water safety product''. Remaining member Anthony Field will then continue with a new line-up that will include year-old Emma Watkins. Founded in , the group have sold more than 30 million albums and DVDs.
They topped BRW's annual list of Australia's 50 richest entertainers for four consecutive years - from - and last year were ranked at number two. In a statement, Cook said "entertaining children around the world for 21 years" had required the band to spend "a long time away from our own families and friends". Watkins and fellow newcomers Lachlan Gillespie and Simon Pryce will join the original line-up on a 'Celebration Tour' that begins in Singapore at the end of May.
The Wiggles will travel to the UK, the US, Canada and New Zealand before returning to Australia in November, after which the departing members will step into "backstage creative roles". A new line up consisting of original member Anthony Field and new singers Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce and Emma Watkins debuted at the end of that year.
Wiggles founder members bow out. Wiggles star quits due to illness. Image source, Getty Images. Greg Page, seen here at a reunion show in , retired from the group due to ill health.
The band tweeted that Page was recovering in hospital. Thursday was the singer's 48th birthday. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.
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