Carrie Bickmore shares her skywriting fail

The Hit Network has confirmed that Tommy Little and Carrie Bickmore will be taking over Dave ‘Hughesy’ Hughes and Ed Kavalee’s national drive show in 2021.

And on Thursday, Carrie and Tommy decided to give Hughesy a present for his 50th birthday. 

Posting to Instagram, Carrie, 39, shared a photo of the skywriting message they gifted the radio presenter…but they made an embarrassing typo.   

The pair had misspelt, Hughesy’s name, with the message reading: ‘HB Hugesy’. 

Carrie captioned the photo: ‘Oh c**p! Tommy and I got @dhughesy a 50TH birthday present and it was written wrong in the sky!!! Happy birthday HUGESY.’ 

Hughesy, later shared the image on his own Instagram account and poked fun at the spelling mistake.  

‘The @carrietommyshow swear they gave the pilot the note with my name spelt right. He redid it for free,’ he captioned it.  

On Monday, Southern Cross Austereo confirmed that Hughesy and Ed would be taking over Sydney’s 2Day FM breakfast show alongside Erin Molan.  

Their drive slot will be replaced by a longer edition of Carrie and Tommy’s popular afternoon show.  

Carrie said in a statement that connecting with listeners is one of her ‘greatest joys’, adding that she’s ‘excited’ about the extended show.

She continued: ‘2020 has been a strange old year but one of the greatest joys has been the chance to connect with our listeners and provide them with the opportunity for a couple of hours of escapism, great tunes and big laughs.

‘We love that privilege and are really excited about returning in 2021 as the Hit Network’s drive show.’

Hit Network boss Gemma Fordham added: ‘We know our audience love the show and want more, they have proven to be a ratings success for us and the support from advertisers wanting to be part of the show is incredible. We are delighted to offer more of Carrie and Tommy in 2021.’