Why Sam Armytage was forced to change outfits
SAMANTHA Armytage was forced to confess an embarrassing mishap on live TV this morning after she swapped her white top for a red one before she was grilled by her co-host David “Kochie” Koch.
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SAMANTHA Armytage was forced to confess an embarrassing mishap on live TV this morning after she swapped her white top for a red one before she was grilled by her co-host David “Kochie” Koch.
The finance guru, 61, put the 41-year-old on the spot on Sunrise saying, “I know I’m old but I thought you were wearing a white blouse.”
Armytage snapped with “Kochie is the worst.”
“Can’t you just pretend? So I had to change outfits because I spilt coffee all down the first one,” she responded before he quipped, “Again?”
“I have a drinking problem,” Armytage added.
“It gets caught under the lid and then it spills all down the front and I’m just not old enough to wear white. So, as soon as I wear white, I spill coffee.
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“So thanks for that Kochie for keeping that a secret.”
News reader Natalie Barr told viewers it wasn’t the first time Armytage had this sort of accident.
“I do have to say that is twice in a week,” she said.
Armytage marked her four year anniversary of co-hosting Sunrise last August during the same month she had an uncomfortable spat with comedian Kathy Griffin on air.
The Sunrise host brought up Griffin’s widely-criticised photoshoot with a bloodied severed head resembling Donald Trump, and asked if she’d gone too far.
Griffin fired back angrily: “You’re full of crap. Stop this. You know this. Stop acting like my little picture is more important than talking about the actual atrocities that the President of the United States is committing.”
On Mark Latham’s Outsiders a month after the blow up, Armytage explained that she’d felt a responsibility to their audience to “call [Griffin] on it” because no one else had done so during her promotional interviews.
“As a journo, I sensed that she was happy to give it but not take it. Personally, I think the beheading joke wasn’t very funny,” she told the panel.
“Comedians are an interesting mob to interview — they’re very rarely like they are on TV or on the stage.”