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==Notable case== A notable person with OI is [[Greg Page (musician)|Greg Page]], founding member and original [[lead vocalist|lead singer]] of the Australian [[children's music]] group [[The Wiggles]]. Due to being diagnosed with this illness, Page left the group in late 2006, and was replaced by his understudy, [[Sam Moran]].<ref name="gregpage">{{cite web |title=Greg Page leaves the Wiggles |url=http://www.thewiggles.com.au/au/mediacentre/news/31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928023000/http://www.thewiggles.com.au/au/mediacentre/news/31 |archive-date=2007-09-28 |access-date=2007-08-21 |publisher=The Wiggles Home Page}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Maddox | first = Greg | title = Life without a skivvie | publisher = The Sydney Morning Herald Online | url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/people/yellow-wiggle-keen-to-perform-again/2008/11/28/1227491826882.html | access-date = 2008-11-29}}</ref> Two years later in late 2008, he went on to create his own fund for OI to help fund research into this then-little known disorder.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bakeridi.edu.au/support/greg_page_fund/ |title = Orthostatic Intolerance}}</ref> Page recovered enough to temporarily return to The Wiggles in early 2012 to help with the transition to the next generation of Wiggles, after which he again left the group at the end of 2012 and was replaced by [[Emma Watkins]] and again by [[Tsehay Hawkins]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/original-yellow-wiggle-greg-page-gets-his-skivvy-back/story-e6frfmq9-1226247238549/ | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Original Yellow Wiggle Greg Page gets his skivvy back | date=2012-01-18}}</ref>
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