The Wiggles Lost Episode: "New Friend"

I became a fan of The Wiggles when I was about 4 years old. I watched almost all of their videos, watched their TV shows and I even went to a couple of their concerts when they came to my hometown of Seattle, Washington. However I lost interest in them once the Yellow Wiggle Greg Page left the group due to health problems.

A couple of weeks ago I decided to look for some old episodes of their shows on Youtube. On the bottom of the first page their was a video titled "Unreleased Series II Wiggles Episode" (Series is Seasons in Australia). The description said the episode was called "New Friend", I watched the episode and it was about Greg's brother Jason coming to live with The Wiggles, and Jason getting accustomed to the house and meeting The Wiggles' friends. Jason wore a shirt similar to what each of the wiggles wore but it was orange.

It was nothing special but I wanted to learn more about this episode, I downloaded the video to my computer to make sure I had the evidence, and then I looked up the episode on google. But there were no results, so I contacted Greg Page (The Yellow Wiggle) about this episode. I privately write him on Facebook saying I'd found the episode on Youtube and asked why it was never released. This was his response.

Dear Sir

I appreciate you reaching out to me concerning this unreleased episode of our old show, I'm not sure exactly how this person got a hold of the episode in question but I am happy to explain why it was never released to the public. Back then we were looking to add a 5th member to our group, after several months we found our 5th member Jason Wyatt. He blew all of us away with how good he was and we immediately brought him on. We decided to have him appear on an episode of the show before officially integrating him into the group, and he was supposed to make his debut as a member of the group for our next video release in 2000. But unfortunately 2 weeks before the episode was suppose to air Jason took his own life via an overdose on anti depressant drugs. As we would later find out from his family he had severe depression and had been in and out of mental hospitals since he was about 14. He had looked like he was getting better and we never noticed anything from when we worked with him. But after his suicide we decided it was best to not release the episode.

The video has since been removed from Youtube and I still have it stored on my computer. But I will not be releasing it. For the sake of The Wiggles franchise and for Jason Wyatt's family, we should just leave it alone.