Carrie Bickmore re-signs at The Project after 10 refuses to sweeten $750k offer
Carrie Bickmore has re-signed with 10’s The Project for 2020 bringing to an end months of stalled contract negotiations.
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CARRIE Bickmore has re-signed with 10’s The Project for 2020 bringing to an end months of stalled contract negotiations.
While 10 refused to comment yesterday saying only it would not be drawn on contract talks, sources at the network say Bickmore re-signed last week after 10 refused to sweeten its original $750,000 contract offer.
Bickmore will continue as co-host of The Project in 2020 and beyond, appearing three or four weeknights alongside Waleed Aly and Peter Hellier.
This she will balance with her drive radio show on Southern Cross Austereo’s FixFM alongside Tommy Little, for which she is believed to be earning a lucrative seven figure sum.
Southern Cross Austereo had approached Bickmore with an offer to jump into its struggling breakfast shift in 2020 but the 38-year-old, who welcomed third child Adelaide just 11 months ago, decided her workload is sufficiently demanding with three young children at home, sources say.
Bickmore also is handsomely paid to be the face of a range of beauty products.
Last week Bickmore, who has spokenly openly of the struggles of motherhood and concerns, earlier in the year, that she may have been suffering from post natal depression, discussed her sadness that her eldest child Oliie, 11, is moving on the high school next year.
Two weeks earlier she broke down on radio while talking to a mother whose son was diagnosed with cancer.