From losing out on Australian of the Year to her penchant for fake tan, no topic was off-limits as Carrie Bickmore’s showbiz pals roasted her on national TV.
Bickmore was the first guest on Seven’s hilarious new show from Mick Molloy and Glenn Robbins called Celebrity Intervention, which premiered on Monday night.
The popular broadcaster was a good sport as Tommy Little, Kate Langbroek, Pete Helliar and even her 18-year-old son lined up to take pot shots at her.
Here are some of the standout jokes.
Kate’s cancer quip
One of the most brutal gags in the episode came from Kate Langbroek as they discussed how Bickmore’s incredible charity work for brain cancer had landed her a nomination for Australian of the Year.
“I lost to an astronaut,” Bickmore said about Australian of the Year.
“But not just any astronaut,” Molloy responded. “Katherine Bennell-Pegg. She’s an astronaut who hasn’t been to space yet! She’s won for not doing her job.”
“To be fair,” Langbroek joked to Bickmore, “you haven’t beaten brain cancer”.
The zinger shocked Bickmore who reminded Langbroek that they were supposed to be good friends.
Molloy followed up with a joke about Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer, which has raised more than $24 million since 2015.
“(You’ve sold) 700,000 beanies, and the people who want to thank you the most are the kids who made those beanies in Bangladesh,” he said as a fake image of a sweatshop appeared on screen.
“We were going to get them to send a message but they don’t get a lunch break,” Molloy added.
Tommy’s tan tale
One of the other top jokes came from Bickmore’s longtime radio co-host, Tommy Little.
“Carrie loves a tan like almost no one I’ve ever met,” he said. “To the point where you worked on TV next to Waleed (Aly) for many years, and yet people still refer to you as ‘the brown one from The Project”.
Confronted by her own flesh and blood
Bickmore’s 18-year-old son got some of the biggest laughs of the night as he stood up in the crowd and read out a list of grievances about his famous mum.
“I feel like now is the time to tell you about something that has caused me great suffering and embarrassment,” Ollie said. “It’s your social media”.
“Thanks to your Instagram, all my friends knew you were getting a colonoscopy. And then there’s the post where you pretended you were in Baywatch? It’s weird that seeing you dressed as a lifeguard made me want to drown!” he joked.
Carrie’s nude mishap
As mentioned, Bickmore was a good sport throughout the intervention, and happily shared embarrassing stories from her life when prompted by Molloy and Robbins.
One such story was when she accidentally flashed her son’s friend who was only 11 or 12 at the time.
“I was nine months pregnant, about to give birth, and I said goodbye to my darling son as he walked out the front door to walk to school,” Bickmore explained.
“Then I got naked, because that’s what you do when you’re heavily pregnant and it’s summer.
“I was going to go have a shower and then I saw through the little shutters in the bedroom that Ollie was walking back up the driveway towards the front door, so I opened the front door fully naked and I said, ‘what did you forget?’
“But it wasn’t Ollie!” Bickmore said. “It was his best friend”.
Bickmore didn’t want the friend to think that women should be ashamed of their bodies, so she had a conversation with the young fella while she was completely starkers.
“It became a permanently real weird thing,” she said, much to the amusement of the studio audience.
“He didn’t tell his parents for a while, who are my close friends, and then I had to tell them, and yeah, we don’t make eye contact now,” she laughed.
Who’s next?
Speaking to news.com.au last week, Molloy revealed which other famous Aussies we can expect to see on Glenn & Mick’s Celebrity Intervention in the coming weeks.
“Dr Chris Brown is great. He comes on and faces the music. We bring out all the families of pets he’s had put down,” Molloy laughed. “That’s very moving.”
Guy Sebastian, Jim Jefferies, Sam Pang, Andy Lee, Dave Hughes and Mick Fanning have also filmed episodes, with only a couple of well known people turning down the TV opportunity.
“We asked Ed Sheeran and Kylie (Minogue) and they said ‘no’. And Cocaine Cassie hasn’t returned our calls,” Molloy joked.
Glenn & Mick’s Celebrity Intervention continues next Monday on Seven at 7.30pm