Lower than three months after leaving a profitable TV gig on The Challengejournalist and radio host Carrie Bickmore has introduced that she is separating from her associate of 11 years.
Gold Logie winner Bickmore, 42, and tv producer Chris Walker, share two daughters, Evie, 7, Adelaide, 4, and 15-year-old son, Oliver, whose father was her late husband, Greg Lange.
The shock information comes 9 months after Walker was embroiled in a nude Zoom convention scandal with ABC colleagues whereas the household was on an prolonged European working vacation.
In joint statements on Tuesday, the couple confirmed the split on their Instagram stories.
“Hello there. It is with immense disappointment that Chris and I’ve determined to separate,” Bickmore wrote.
“Whereas this can be a robust time, our focus is to focus on parenting, loving and supporting our three wonderful youngsters, Ollie, Evie and Addie with all the things we have got.
“They’re doing nice.
“We cannot be making any additional remark at this stage.”
Bickmore and Walker met on the set of The Challenge in 2012, and he was there with the three youngsters within the viewers for her final present on November 30 final 12 months.
Bickmore and Walker fell in love, and he turned a stepdad to Oliver, earlier than the births of Evie in 2015 and Adelaide in 2018.
“She was little question, and at all times shall be, the captain of that present. However, she can be the captain of our little household and she or he lights up our lives much more than she lights up a studio,” Walker wrote on Instagram when Bickmore first introduced she was leaving the present.
“What an unbelievable trip it has been for you babe. All of us love you and might’t watch for what’s subsequent.”
In 2015, Bickmore OAM gained a Gold Logie which she devoted to her late husband Mr Lange, who handed away following a 10-year battle with mind most cancers aged 35.
Founding father of Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer and sporting a beanie throughout her tribute speech, she mentioned, “Everybody thinks it’s this uncommon type of most cancers. It isn’t. It kills extra individuals underneath 40, and it’s lots of you on this room, extra individuals underneath 40 than some other most cancers.
“It kills extra youngsters than some other illness. In 2010, my husband, Greg, was one of many unfortunate ones.
“He was an extremely courageous man. He was a terrific father. He was a terrific husband. He was a terrific brother and he was a terrific good friend,” she mentioned.
Bother in paradise
In Could final 12 months, Walker, the creator and government producer of The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (he additionally lists Exhausting Quiz and Tomorrow Tonight on LinkedIn), averted disciplinary motion from the ABC after allegedly by chance revealing himself to co-workers on Could 17.
He reportedly didn’t stop a Skype name and shut his laptop computer after a rehearsal assembly for The Weeklyleaving the display screen reside, earlier than taking his garments off to have a bathe.
Melbourne’s Herald Sun reported on May 31 the incident was witnessed by as much as 9 individuals, lasting between 40 seconds and two minutes.
An ABC spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to the newspaper it was “conscious of an unintentional incident” which occurred involving the manufacturing crew for The Weeklyhowever denied different claims of lewd acts.
“The ABC is in common communication with the related crew members and are within the technique of growing methods to make sure an incident of this nature doesn’t happen once more,” it mentioned in an announcement.
“The ABC has a counseling service obtainable to all ABC workers which has been provided on this occasion.”
In November, Bickmore recounted one other incident on her day by day Carrie and Tommy radio present with Tommy Little.
She says he by chance walked bare into the background of a late-night Zoom name “together with his bits out”.
She mentioned they laughed their heads off after he was unintentionally nude within the background of an interview with 35 journalists from all world wide.
