Carrie Bickmore recalls being caught not wearing pants

She’s the bubbly blonde on The Project that often has viewers in stitches. 

And Carrie Bickmore, 39, had the show’s panel cracking up on Wednesday night when she revealed she once got caught without pants on by her 12-year-old son’s friend. 

Co-host Rachel Corbett was speaking about ACT Police telling residents to wear pants while answering the door, when Peter Helliar dobbed in his co-star. 

Carrie reluctantly recalled how she had gone to take a shower after he son went to school, only to see a boy in uniform enter her front yard.

‘I heard the gate click and saw a school kid in uniform, and I thought it was Ollie and I said, ”What have you forgotten?” and it wasn’t him, it was one of his mates,’ she said. 

Carrie roared with laughter at the mishap as she regaled the rest of the story.

‘I didn’t want to make it awkward, so I asked how he was going!’ she said, adding: ‘We get along well, he can have a laugh about it.’

Carrie shares her son Oliver with her husband Greg Lange, who died of brain cancer in 2010. 

She also has daughter Evie, four, and her youngest child, Adelaide, 11 months, who she shares with her partner Chris Walker.  

Carrie regularly speaks about funny stories with her family, writing in her Stellar column this month about an embarrassing moment about her son in school. 

She recounted: ‘One day after a fruit sale at school, I received a note from the teacher informing me they’d asked the class if anyone would like to take the leftover limes home.’  

Ollie was first to put up his hand and let the class know, ‘Mummy would love them for her gin’,’ she wrote.

Laughing off the incident, Carrie concluded: ‘They would be handy for a gin, but I didn’t want Mrs Jones knowing that!’