Samantha Armytage took a cheeky swipe at her former Sunrise co-host David ‘Kochie’ Koch on Friday during a radio interview.
The Farmer Wants A Wife presenter, 46, appeared on Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa with Kate Ritchie to talk about the popular Channel Seven show and life on her farm in regional New South Wales.
She recalled a story about giving birth to a foal on the property she shares with her husband, equestrian businessman Richard Lavender.
‘I gave birth to a foal. “She was holding the mare’s head, you have to get up in five minutes,” he told the hosts.
Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald then jokingly asked if newborns walked like Kochie did at the Channel Seven Sunrise studios.
Samantha Armytage took a cheeky swipe at her former Sunrise co-host David ‘Kochie’ Koch on Friday during a radio interview. Both photographed in 2021.
—As if they owned the place? Samantha responded.
However, co-host Kate Ritchie intervened and clarified that Fitzy meant “wobbly”, and Samantha agreed that the answer was better.
Samantha co-hosted the popular breakfast show Sunrise alongside Kochie from 2013 to 2021, and was replaced by news presenter Natalie Barr when she stepped down from the role.
Last year, she took over hosting duties for Farmer Wants A Wife from Natalie Gruzlewski, who remains on the show as host.
The Farmer Wants A Wife presenter, 46, appeared on Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa with Kate Ritchie to talk about the popular Channel Seven show and life on her farm in regional New South Wales.
Sam sold her North Bondi home for $2.8 million in July 2020, before moving to a farm in the Southern Highlands to live with her husband Richard.
She married Richard at their 40 hectare property in Bowral on New Year’s Eve 2020.
The journalist met her husband at socialite Skye Leckie’s 60th birthday party in April 2019 and said there was an instant connection.
Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald then jokingly asked if the newborn foals on his farm walked like Kochie did at the Channel Seven Sunrise studios. —As if they owned the place? Samantha responded.
She previously said Stellar: ‘I think we play a good game. I was very lucky to find him at that time in my life.
Richard added of the early days of their romance: “A lot has been said about those things but I honestly think she was looking for something a little different when she met me.”
He is a shareholder in Lavender Equestrian, which offers a range of horse services in the region, including breeding and training.
According to property records, his 40-hectare estate in Berrima cost $1.95 million when he bought it in 2007.