The purpose behind Carrie Bickmore and Chris Walker’s abrupt cut up stays a thriller, with the previous Project host utterly avoiding the subject on her radio present in the present day.
After a short joint assertion launched this morning alerting followers of the break-up, Bickmore returned to business as typical on the Hit Network’s Carrie & Tommy this afternoon, delivering a lighthearted present with no point out of the news.
On Wednesday morning, each Bickmore and Walker wrote on Instagram: “Hi there. It’s with immense sadness that (Carrie) and I have decided to separate.
“While this is a tough time, our focus is to concentrate on parenting, loving and supporting our three amazing children, Ollie, Evie and Addie with everything we’ve got. They are doing great.”
They added: “We won’t be making any further comment at this stage.”
The news despatched shockwaves by means of the trade, with many believing the cut up got here utterly out of nowhere given the couple have been seen embracing on the seashore in Byron Bay, the place they personal a vacation home, mere weeks in the past.
The couple spent a few of their summer time vacation break within the common vacationer city, with Bickmore pictured grinning on the seashore in a fluoro yellow one piece earlier this month.
During one other seashore time out on January fifth, Walker and Bickmore seemed each bit the glad couple as they hugged and laughed on the sand.
As hypothesis into what triggered the cut up continues to swirl, leisure commentator Peter Ford instructed news.com.au that Bickmore and Walker’s momentary transfer to the UK final 12 months might have been an indication of issues to return.
Ford mentioned whereas he was “taken aback” by news of the cut up, and confused he didn’t know “what’s going on behind closed doors”, with the good thing about hindsight, the prolonged European getaway might have been a touch of hassle in paradise between the pair.
The prolonged vacation in the course of the 12 months — which Bickmore described as an opportunity to “seize the moment” whereas her youngsters have been nonetheless younger — definitely raised eyebrows, particularly given Bickmore’s profitable plum position which got here with a reported $1.5 million wage and which is taken into account to be the most effective within the notoriously aggressive TV trade.
“Clearly, she took time off last year in Europe, and I thought, most people don’t take time off like that – if they’ve got a TV or radio contract, you don’t take an extended break in the middle of the year,” Ford instructed news.com.au.
“So I thought that was about [them being] in search of something, trying to find something.”
After her return to Australia in July, Bickmore opened up in regards to the household’s UK journey on her radio present, revealing that holidaying as a household had been “really, really hard”, and notably tough for her youngest.
A couple of months later, Bickmore introduced her resignation from The Project, describing the choice because the “hardest of my professional life” on the present in October.
Her introduced adopted a bumpy stint within the headlines for Walker, who was embroiled in a nude Skype scandal after by accident revealing himself to as much as 9 ABC co-workers.
Bickmore remained tight-lipped over the May incident because it gripped headlines, although some speculated it might have put pressure on their relationship.
