Carrie Bickmore emerges all smiles two weeks after calling it quits on radio show

Carrie Bickmore didn’t seem to have a care in the world as she strutted through the Birdcage enclosure at Flemington Racecourse on Derby Day today.

The radio icon, 45, and co-host Tommy Little called time on The Hit Network’s Carrie and Tommy show just two weeks ago, marking the end of a decade in radio together.

Despite her tears during the announcement, and a jab at the network live on air in the following days, Bickmore was all smiles at Derby Day.

She led the celebrations at the luxe G.H. Mumm marquee with the iconic ‘Tap Tap’ moment and ended up showered in champagne in the process.

Dressed in an off-white frock, matching hair bow, gold accessories and slim sunglasses, she managed to duck out of the main splash zone just in time.

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Bickmore and Little recently announced their show on the Hit Network will wrap up at the end of the year, marking another casualty in Australia’s troubled radio industry.

“After nearly 10 years of doing this amazing show, the Carrie and Tommy show is coming to an end,” she said on the show on October 20.

“I've loved every minute of doing the show.

“It’s not every day you get to come and have a laugh and call it your job with your best mate and the funniest guy in the country, and that’s what we’ve got to do for the last decade.”

Two days later, she and Little poked fun at the network’s seemingly AI-generated press release about their exit.

The first error all agreed was simply "just a bit of a typo" when they spoke about Carrie's Beanies for Brain Cancer fundraising initiative as Brian cancer.

“I should point out I try to raise money for brain cancer, not just Brian’s cancers, I don’t specially focus on Brian’s, I like to focus broader than that,” Bickmore said.

They then looked down the list of their achievements that included a number of things they’d never actually done, like an “icy Tassie lake plunge” and a “legendary bus tour”.

“I thought, ‘how did they get this information?’ I thought, ‘I know, let’s get ChatGPT and let’s type in what are Carrie and Tommy known for?’” Little said,

“And that’s where it mentions – and they spell brain cancer right – the campaign and ‘braving an icy Tasmanian lake plunge’. Surprise trips to Paris – yes, we did that. Caravan adventures – yes, we did that – around Queensland, ‘and their popular mystery bus tours’.”

There is a chance the information appearing in Little’s ChatGPT search came from the press release itself, as opposed to the other way around.

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