Carrie Bickmore cops a warning after going rogue on air
<p>Carrie Bickmore has reportedly copped a tense warning after making a big cash offer live on her radio show. </p>
<p>The radio presenter, along with her co-host Tommy Little, were partaking in a long-running segment called The Time Game, in which listeners call in and try to guess when a stopwatch reaches exactly 5.00 seconds.</p>
<p>The game, which regularly airs on their Hit Network drive show <em>Carrie and Tommy</em>, has never actually been won in the three years that the duo have been inviting listeners to play, with the cash prize rising by $100 each time the game remained unbeaten.</p>
<p>During Wednesday's show, the game was commencing when Carrie decided to raise the stakes for listeners, without previously clearing her rogue idea with the radio powers that be.</p>
<p>The hosts shared that the cash prize has risen to a whopping $10,000, when Bickmore decided to add another $20,000 to the prize money before listener Nick was invited to play. </p>
<p>“Because our show starts at three, I’m timesing it by three: thirty grand on the line today,” Bickmore announced. “I just think it’s what people want.”</p>
<p>Tommy Little seemed stunned at this sudden leap in the prize money on offer, asking his co-host, “Have you been hitting the bottle early?” and noting that their boss was “shaking her head.”</p>
<p>“I’m not looking at her. If I’m not looking at her, it won’t be a problem,” Bickmore said.</p>
<p>Minutes later, with the game still yet to be played, Bickmore revealed that her announcement had sent the show’s bosses into a frenzy.</p>
<p>“There’s been a few meetings that’s been happening off-air in the last 10 minutes with bosses going, ‘You can’t just go saying things on-air that we can’t fulfil.’ I will fulfil it. If they can’t, I will.”</p>
<p>In a spectacular twist, as Nick began to play the game, he called stop just as the stopwatch hit five seconds exactly. </p>
<p>“Oh Nick, I didn’t run this past the bosses at all … I just went rogue and said $30,000 and now I’ve … oh my god, oh my god,” Bickmore said. </p>
<p>“I’m so excited by this, but I’m slightly terrified, because I’m not sure if it’s my money or the company’s money that you’re about to take.”</p>
<p>Thankfully for Bickmore, the Hit Network covered the $30,000 prize money, according to a statement shared to <em><a href="https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/radio/tense-meetings-after-carrie-bickmore-goes-rogue-with-big-cash-offer-onair/news-story/462716cd6ad770c7dec38c912f54a2d5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news.com.au</a></em>.</p>
<p><em>Image credits: Hit Network</em></p>
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