So, to add to her overflowing plate, the down-to-earth global news trotting Nine superstar, who lives on Sydney’s eastern beaches with her husband Mike Willesee Jr, is stepping on to the treadmill with new 10-week-old baby Scout (in a pouch) and son Mack, 2, for the Tread As One 24-hour Anytime Fitness challenge on Friday to support a charity close to her heart: R U OK?

The mental health charity was founded by Gavin Larkin, after his father took his own life. “We were incredibly close friends with Gavin when he floated the idea to start a national day and conversation about suicide prevention and we jumped on board,” Langdon told the Wentworth Courier this week as she cuddled her newborn baby with a super chilled Mike, while Mack, fed their black labrador, Sport. Although she’d raced back home from a Weekend Today shift which had begun with her pumping milk at 3.30am (left on the kitchen bench for Mike to administer), the family were relaxed and all smiles.

Tragically Gavin passed away in 2011 following a 19-month battle with cancer and his 15-year-old son, Gus, also died of a brain tumour, two years later, in a story of unimaginable loss.

“We have been touched by it [suicide] in this community,” Langdon says sadly, opening up about dear friend Justin Bull, the well-known chef from Huxton’s in Bronte, who also died a few months ago. “He was an amazing chef and father, I mean we miss him every day, he was the light of our community, he brought everyone together.

“When a life goes in a flash it makes you think about everyone else in your life, and how everyone is travelling, and that’s the focus of R U OK? It’s just being upfront about the things we have been battling and that’s why this treadmill challenge is so important, to keep that conversation going.”

She says the eastern suburbs community her young family is a part of is special, and has made things easier for here young family in this incredibly emotionally charged time.

Mike lost his father, famed journalist Mike Willesee, to throat cancer at age 76, just two days before Scout’s arrival in March.

Willesee died on the Friday, they welcomed Scout on the Sunday, and Allison came out of hospital on Thursday, the day before the funeral at St Mary’s Cathedral. “It was such an extraordinary time with such conflicting emotions — particularly for Mike. Here he is grieving the loss of his father yet celebrating the birth of his daughter. I think it’s been so busy, we’ve just had to go with it and Mike is just wonderful.”

The Tread as One event has raised over $800,000 in two years for mental health charities by participants receiving sponsorship for the time they spend on the treadmill. Langdon laughs she “might fall flat on her face” as she hasn’t had a chance to exercise yet since she had Scout. “We don’t have family in Sydney and it’s pretty full on, but I get a lot of exercise anyway. I do something every morning,

“I usually wear the 10-week-old and push the two-year-old and walk the dog most mornings at 6am. You’ll see us as a family along the Bronte coastal walk!”

Tread As One 2019 runs from Friday to Saturday at participating Anytime Fitness clubs nationwide.

Participants can register now at https://www.anytimefitness.com.au/treadmillevent/ Open to members and the wider community