Carrie Bickmore Order of Australia: The Project host shares that she lost her medal - NEWS.com.au

It was an immensely proud moment for Carrie Bickmore today as she formally received her hard-earned OAM medal … before promptly losing it in the carpark.

The Project host and Hit Network radio presenter told co-host Tommy Little on air how the momentous event quickly descended into panic when she realised the medal pinned to her top had disappeared less than an hour after the ceremony.

The media personality, who received the OAM for services to broadcast media and brain cancer awareness from the Queen in June, could barely contain her giggles as she recounted crouching in the gutter in a desperate scramble while her dad laughed beside her.

“I got one where they give you a little pin that clips on to your top, and I was wearing mine very proudly,” she recalled of the Victoria Government House ceremony today.

“My mum and dad had come and Oli had come out of school and Chris was there, and we thought ‘Why don’t we go and get a coffee together afterwards?’”

Here, she said, is where she realised the medal had gone missing.

“About five minutes before we left at the end of the coffee my mum said “Did you take your medal off?” and I said “No” and looked down and I had lost my medal,” she said through hysterical laughter.

“I hadn’t had it for an hour and I lost it already!”

“So then we started looking under all the chairs (at the cafe), at one point I was bending down in the gutter … We had to drive all the way back to Government House where we got it where we were looking under all the cars.

“Then a lady comes out and says “are you looking for this?” and I said yes and she said ‘I was hoping it was important enough for you to come back and get it!’”

While the beloved Channel 10 host could laugh about the situation in hindsight, at the time, she said she was “so embarrassed”.

“She’s probably thinking I don’t care and I’ve driven off without it … It was found in the carpark, it must have popped off.”

The mum-of-two vowed to keep the medal safe in her home from now on.

“It was an emotional rollercoaster … Anyway I found it and I won’t be wearing it around anymore.”

She later shared the story with her followers on Instagram.

Tonight on The Project, Carrie’s co-hosts celebrated her success in her absence: “This is the only time we can really celebrate Carrie — when she’s not here,” said Tommy Little.

“She’s quite honestly the most selfless person I’ve ever met. Even on our radio show today, we tried to celebrate her career moments and tireless charity work, and she was the first to go, “It’s not about me. It’s about all the other people behind the scenes.”

He added: “She is incredible. People that see her in the public eye — if you’re wondering what she’s like when she’s not in the public eye? It’s exactly like that, but even more generous.”

Carrie, who started her broadcast journalism career reading the news on 92.9FM in Perth in 2001, launched charity Beanies 4 Brain Cancer after her late husband Greg died from the disease.

Carrie used her now iconic 2015 Logie’s award acceptance speech to publicly announce the new charity, and since then the movement has only grown.

“He would have loved it, he would have absolutely loved it. It blew me away,” Carrie said of the charity.

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