She also reflected on the enormous support her charity Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer, which she started in 2015 after her husband Greg died of the disease. “I wanted to raise a million dollars,” she said. “I would not have raised over $25 million if it wasn’t for you guys at home. When we started, I just wanted to raise awareness and now we have a brain cancer centre with people in clinical trials.”
Hughes – perhaps the only person who didn’t get teary – also recalled being so nervous on the day they met Brad Pitt, that he introduced himself as, “Hi, I’m Dave, I’m friends with Eric Banana.” Pickering, meanwhile, said the first episode in 2016 was like “building the plane while you fly it … somehow we figured it out. ”
Regular co-hosts Tommy Little, Susie Youssef and Rachel Corbett popped by. Hamish Macdonald and Lisa Wilkinson also dialled in, with both praising The Project’s ability to make genuine change, with Wilkinson naming the uncovering of the “toxic workplace culture at Parliament House” as a personal highlight.