Carrie Bickmore | |
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Bickmore at the 2012 TV Week Logie Awards
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Born |
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
3 December 1980
Occupation | TV & Radio Presenter |
Net worth | 5 million |
Spouse(s) | Greg Lange (m. 2005; d. 2010) |
Partner(s) | Chris Walker |
Children | 2 |
Carrie Bickmore (born 3 December 1980) is an Australian talk show and current affairs Gold Logie award-winning television and radio presenter.
Bickmore currently hosts The Project on Network Ten and Carrie & Tommy on the Hit Network.
Bickmore was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1980, but moved to Perth, Western Australia with her family at an early age. Bickmore attended the Anglican girls' school Perth College and then later attended Curtin University of Technology where she studied journalism, graduating in 2000. She moved to Melbourne, Victoria in 2001 to pursue a career in media.
In 2005, she married Greg Lange, who also worked in the media industry. She gave birth to a boy, Oliver, in 2007. Lange died after a long battle with brain cancer on 27 December 2010. On 8 October 2014, Bickmore announced that she was pregnant with her second child with partner Chris Walker on The Project. She gave birth to a girl, Evie, on March 18, 2015.
Bickmore started her career as a newsreader on 92.9FM in Perth where she began as an emergency fill-in for a sick colleague. After this she was appointed as a regular newsreader for the station.
In 2001 Bickmore became the afternoon newsreader for radio station Nova 100 in Melbourne and in 2002 she became the co-host of the drive show with Andy Ross.