Australian comedian Chris Lilley has posted a mind-blowing throwback video featuring a major AFL WAG.
Before becoming a successful businesswoman and the wife of Geelong star Tom Hawkins, Emma Hawkins, 35, had a budding career as an actress and featured in three of Lilley’s comedy series for the ABC including Summer Heights High.
Credited as Emma Clapham on the show, the future WAG can be seen sharing a scene with Lilley, 49, in his controversial series We Can Be Heroes.
Emma, who plays schoolgirl Briana in the 2005 show, appeared as the same character in Lilley’s Summer Heights High (2007) and again in Ja’mie: Private School Girl (2013).
All three shows featured Lilley as Ja’mie, a foul-mouthed 16-year-old school girl and the centre of a friendship circle of four teen girls, including Hawkins’ character.
Lilley’s Instagram share featured a scene in which Ja’mie’s mates are dressed in pyjamas for a sleepover and are playing with an Ouija board.
‘Private school girl Ja’mie has a seance and communicates with Briana’s dead dog Chico at a sleepover with her friends,’ the comedian explained in the caption.
Back in 2018, Emma, founder of children’s wear brand Homegrown Kids shared that she was only in Year 10 when she first filmed We Can Be Heroes.
Before becoming a successful businesswoman, Emma Hawkins, 35, had a budding career as an actress and featured in three of Lilley’s comedy series for the ABC including Summer Heights High. Pictured: Emma, second from left with Chris Lilley and the cast of We Can Be Heroes in 2005
The series is a mockumentary that follows a series of five characters – all played by Lilley – who have been nominated for Australian of the Year.
‘Well, yes… I guess you could say I was a teenage actor – similar to The Olsen Twins or Hillary Duff,’ Emma revealed to her Instagram followers in 2018.
‘We have obviously all gone in very different directions with our lives.
Emma appeared as the character of Briana, a school girl in Lilley’s Summer Heights High (2007) and again in Ja’mie: Private School Girl (2013)
Emma welcomed her third child, a son Henry, with husband, Geelong footy champ Tom Hawkins in July, 2022. Both pictured
She added: ‘It was such a fun experience.
‘I never pursued acting… Or it didn’t pursue me? I cant remember the finer details (it was [definitely] the latter).’
Emma welcomed her third child, a son Henry, with husband Tom in July, 2022.
The couple who married in 2016, also share daughters Arabella, seven and Primrose who is four.
Lilley’s Instagram share featured a scene in which Ja’mie’s mates are dressed in pyjamas for a sleepover and are playing with an Ouija board. (Pictured: Emma seen second from left)
