"I sobbed in the paddock”: Sam Armytage's home life challenges
Sam Armytage has revealed why she "sobbed in a paddock" recently, as she shared the trials and tribulations of life in the country.
After the former Sunrise presenter quit the Channel 7 breakfast show, she moved to the NSW Southern Highlands with her horse-breeding farmer husband, Richard Lavender.
The quaint town of Berrima boasts a different way of life to bustling Sydney and comes with its own unique hurdles, as Armytage told The Daily Telegraph.
“We had to put down one of our most promising and sweet-natured racehorses last week, after he broke his leg in an accident. I sobbed in the paddock,” Armytage told the publication.
Elsewhere in the interview, she also revealed the advice she’d give her 10-year-old self.
“That the people who are mean to you throughout life are usually jealous of who you are – and what you have,” Armytage said.
Just weeks ago, Armytage was announced as the new host of Farmer Wants a Wife: a role previously held by Natalie Gruzlewski, who has hosted the series on-and-off ever since its debut in 2007.
Her return to hosting duties comes after Armytage admitted she would never return to Sunrise.
“I’d never go back. You don’t go backwards in life. You’ve got to keep going forward,” she said.
She went on to say she senses “fear” in the media landscape these days, saying, “When I do listen to radio and TV, no-one’s actually saying what they mean.”
“Everybody’s walking this tightrope because they fear they’ll say the wrong thing and the mob will descend on them, and that’s not journalism, and it’s not what I was paid to do back in the old days."
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