Carrie Bickmore Bio, Age, Husband, Beanies, Height, The Project
Carrie Bickmore Biography
Carrie Bickmore has won Gold Logie awards for her work on Australian talk shows and on radio and television. She began her career as a newsreader on Perth’s 92.9 FM as an emergency substitute for a sick colleague.
Carrie Bickmore Age
She is 43 years old as of early 2023. She was born on 3 December 1980 in Adelaide, Australia. She celebrates her birthday on 3 December.
Parents
She is the daughter of Brian L. Bickmore and Jennie Bickmore-Brand. Her father Brian Bickmore worked as a radio announcer on that station. Later, he worked as a manager for the Austereo network.
Carrie Bickmore Husband| Children
She got married in 2005 to Greg Lange, a man who also worked in the media. Oliver, their son, was born to her in 2007. Lange kicked the bucket following a very long-term fight with cerebrum malignant growth on 27 December 2010. On The Project on October 8, 2014, Bickmore revealed to her partner Chris Walker that she was expecting her second child. Evie, a girl, was born to her in 2015. On 21 June 2018, Bickmore posted a video on Instagram reporting her third pregnancy, thusly declaring the introduction of another girl, Adelaide, sometime thereafter. Bickmore and Walker isolated in 2023.
Education
After attending Perth College, an Anglican girls’ school, Bickmore went on to Curtin University of Technology, where she studied journalism and received her degree in 2000. In order to pursue a career in media, she moved to Melbourne, Victoria, in 2001.
Carrie Bickmore Beanies
Bickmore was awarded the Gold Logie in 2015. She wore a beanie during her acceptance speech to raise awareness of her late husband’s battle with brain cancer and to encourage her peers to wear beanie caps to show their support for the cause; using her husband’s fears about his scars and the fact that he wears beanies to hide them as the symbol’s story. She launched Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer in November 2015 with the initial goal of raising $4,200,000 for brain cancer research. Two months later, in January 2016, she achieved that goal. Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer is said to have raised over $18 million as of September 2022.
Height
She stands at an average height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m).
Carrie Bickmore The Project
Bickmore, Rebecca Leahy, and Michael Colling acknowledged the honor for Best People group Administration Task – Metro, for Nova 100. Bickmore was given the position of breakfast newsreader on Nova 100’s Hughesy & Kate in 2007. In August 2009, she declared that she would pass on Nova 100 to zero in on The 7 pm Venture. On September 25, 2009, she passed away.
Bickmore and Charlie Pickering appeared on the three-week-long radio show The Breakfast Project in October 2012. The show impressed both viewers and critics, which led to speculation that Bickmore and Pickering would become regulars on Nova 100 Melbourne.
Bickmore has increased her profile as a television presenter by becoming a presenter on The Project, which airs weeknights on Network Ten, since 2009. For her work on Rove and The Project, Bickmore received the 2010 Logie Award for Best New Female Talent on May 2. After her husband’s death in 2011, Bickmore returned to television after a break of several months.
Carrie Bickmore Radio
Bickmore began her career as a newsreader on Perth’s 92.9 FM as an emergency substitute for a colleague who was ill. At the time, her father Brian Bickmore worked as a radio announcer on that station. Later, he worked as a manager for the Austereo network. She was then hired by the station as a regular newsreader.
Bickmore joined radio station Nova 100 in Melbourne in 2001 as the afternoon newsreader, and in 2002, she joined Andy Ross as the drive show’s co-host. In November 2013, Bickmore went back to Nova 100 to read the news one last time and say goodbye to Hughesy and Kate, a breakfast radio duo who had been on the show for a long time. Bickmore and Tommy Little were announced as the new Carrie & Tommy hosts on the Hit Network in January 2017 by Southern Cross Austereo.
Carrie Bickmore The Oprah Winfrey Show
Jonathan Green, editor of The Drum, and representatives of the Australian coffee industry criticized Bickmore in December 2010 for promoting McDonald’s in a report for The Oprah Winfrey Show. McDonald’s confirmed that the promotion was paid advertising.
