Former Sunrise host Samantha Armytage has opened up in regards to the “giant relief” she’s felt since quitting breakfast tv in 2021.
Armytage, who is ready to host the brand new season of Farmer Wants A Wife, debuting on Seven on Easter Monday, stated she thought individuals would decide her when she walked away from her “huge job” as co-host of Sunrise two years in the past.
“So many people want those jobs that, when you walk away from a big one, everyone goes, what?!” she advised Stellar in a brand new interview, out in the present day.
“But I’m very proud of myself for doing it. And I’m quite chuffed at how people have reacted; and by that I mean my friends and family and also people I don’t know on the street. I haven’t been on air for two years, so people could have forgotten me.”
Armytage hosted Weekend Sunrise from 2007 to 2013, earlier than transferring to weekdays to co-host Sunrise with David Koch till she introduced her departure in 2021. She stated after 14 years of early begins, she was grateful to have her evenings again – a sense echoed by followers of the present who strategy her in public.
“I still will be having drinks with girlfriends and they’ll say, ‘Good on you, we’ve got your back and we’re so glad you can stay up now – it’s 8pm and you’re still out of bed!’ And then people on the street, viewers and listeners, people are so divine. They’ve just been so supportive. I love the fact that people will still lean over the trolleys in Woolies and grab me on the arm and say, ‘I really miss you and I’m so happy you’re happy.’”
Armytage’s departure from breakfast tv got here shortly after she married accomplice Richard Lavender in December 2020. The pair now reside a quiet life within the NSW Southern Highlands.
“I think we make a good match. I was very lucky to find him at that point in my life,” Armytage advised Stellar, whereas Lavender advised the journal that his spouse of two-and-a-half years “was just looking for something a bit different when she met me.”
Asked her ideas on the present state of breakfast tv these days, Armytage stated that as an “outside observer” she “wouldn’t throw stones” – but additionally revealed the one inescapable a part of being a brekkie TV host that she doesn’t miss in any respect.
“I’m not in there having a go anymore, and I’m relieved not to be. And I’m relieved I don’t have to talk about Harry and Meghan every day. That is a giant relief to me,” she stated.
“I’m very choosy about where I get my news from these days. I don’t consume a lot of it. I do enough to be well informed and [have] good dinner party conversation. When you’re working in it full-time, you have to be across all of it. And I don’t think that’s terribly healthy. So I’ve taken a big step back from that. It’s quite enjoyable.”
Read the complete interview with Sam Armytage in in the present day’s Stellar, free with the Herald Sun and Sunday Telegraph.
Originally printed as Sam Armytage on the ‘giant relief’ of quitting Sunrise
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
