Red Wiggle’s huge $5.7 million win

Red Wiggle Simon Pryce has $5.7 million reasons to celebrate a life-changing moment. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Red Wiggle Simon Pryce and his fitness entrepreneur wife Lauren Hannaford have completed their eastern suburbs upsize.

The couple spent $5.7m last month in Maroubra, having sold their longtime Clovelly apartment for $2.52m 12 months ago.

The mid-1970s home they bought has been reinvented since last sold for $1.9m in 2010, with a Stubbs Design Tribe renovation.

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Simon Pryce and Lauren Hannaford have bought a family home in Maroubra. Picture: realestate.com.au

It sits in award-winning gardens by Growing Room Landscapes, and features a “floating” 8.5m heated saltwater pool plus spa, along with a barbecue terrace. Framed by greenery, it has created a private oasis, according to the marketing by Alexander Phillips from PPD.

The north-facing, double-fronted home has five bedrooms, plus a media room, rumpus room and a four-car garage.

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Simon Pryce and Lauren Hannaford. Picture: Jonathan Ng

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The home had a buyers’ guide of $4.8m when initially listed earlier this year by Sydney Sotheby’s. Phillips took over the listing and had it sold in eight days.

Proptrack data indicates the median price for houses in Maroubra is $3m after 200 sales over the past year. Maroubra’s peak was $3,212,000 late last year.

Just in time for summer.

The home sold for $5.7m

Engaged in 2015 and married in 2017, and now with four-year-old son Asher, the couple had been looking for more space.

Their elevated first floor 1970s Ocean St apartment had been bought by Pryce for $860,000 in 2011, two years before he officially became the Red Wiggle.

The couple’s former Clovelly home.

They had been looking for more space.

His involvement with the Wiggles dates back to 2002, when he began as one of their voice artists on their CDs. He joined their tour in 2009, as Ringo the Ringmaster and understudying for founding member Murray Cook, before replacing him in 2013.

The couple met in 2011 when Hannaford toured with the Wiggles. She is a gymnast turned FHIT online fitness entrepreneur.

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