Samantha Armytage

Samantha Armytage was born in 1977 and she is a television news presenter and a journalist. She is now a co-host for Sunrise with David Koch and she had hosted Weekend Sunrise and Seven 4.30 News. She was announced as the replacement of the Sunrise host Melisa in 2013.


Samantha Armytage grew in the historic Bolaro Station in Snowy Mountains in New South Wales. She was at school of Kincoppal-Rose Bay in Sydney and to Charles Strut University of Bathurst of New South Wales. At the beginning, she was interested into doing public relations. She started her career in television in the Canberra since 1999 and as news presenter and reporter. Afterwards, she joined Sky News Australia during the year 2002 and she was the chief political reporter. She joined Seven Network, when she was noticed by the executives of the network when she was covering for  Bushfires of Canberra in 2003.  

In 2004, she got the first major presenting role when she worked as a presenter for Seven News Sydney in the summer. After the non rating period, she presented Seven Morning news bulletin and the updates for late news. 

In 2005 to 2006, Armytage was the regular fill-in presenter of Christ Bath. Samantha Armytage was born in the Armytage family who originated from Victoria. The family lived in the Como House in Melbourne for 95 years old. The house was sold in 1969 to National Trust. She has a young sister called Georgina with a younger brother called Charles. She is interested in horse racing, fashion, snow skiing, tennis and golf.

In 2011, it was said that she broke up with her live-in boyfriend Sean who was builder.  Afterwards, she started to date Peter DeAngelis. In 2012, when she was talking about her latest weight loss, she said they are no longer together. Until now she not yet married. She said that as by now, she is no longer interested in dating someone and that she may wish to stay at home and to read a book.  She said that she is comfortable the way she is but she may try to make some efforts so that she can meet a new person. She is the host of Bringing Sexy Back and she says that she is not one of the best role models because she has also put on more weight even if she loses it sometime and it comes back.

 She is known to change her hairstyles and in the latest photos she put on her Instagram, she showed cutting off the golden locks she had. Afterwards, she was spotted at Carols in The Domain, with as severe side part which was teased on a certain half into curls while the other half was behind the ear.

She works with micheal pell, who was an executive for Sunrise. Pell started his career while producing Sky News. He worked on his skills when doing the Bachelor of Arts in the Communications where he majored in Journalism. He produces bulletin for Morning News and Sunrise. 

Last Modified: Apr 8, 2020


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