Samantha Armytage

Samantha Armytage
Samantha Armytage
Born (1976-09-04) 4 September 1976
Bolaro Station, Adaminaby, New South Wales
Education Kincoppal - Rosebay School, Sydney
Charles Sturt University, Bathurst
Occupation News presenter
Years active 1999−present
Employer Seven Network
Notable credit(s) Seven 4.30 News presenter
(2006-2012)
Weekend Sunrise co-host (2007-2013)
Sunrise co-host (2013-present)
Como, the home of Armytage's ancestor Charles Armytage

Samantha Armytage (born 4 September 1976)[1] is an Australian television news presenter.

Armytage is currently co-host of Sunrise alongside David Koch and she has previously co-hosted Weekend Sunrise and presented Seven 4.30 News.

Career

She began her media career at WIN Television in Canberra in 1999, as a news reporter and presenter in Canberra.[2] Following this she joined Sky News Australia in 2002 where she was chief political reporter.

In April 2003, Samantha joined the Seven Network after being noticed by the network executives while covering the 2003 Canberra Bushfires.

In December 2004, she landed her first major presenting role, filling-in as presenter on Seven News Sydney over the Summer non-ratings period. Following the non-ratings period she had stints presenting Seven Morning News, the national late news updates, and filling in as presenter of Seven News Sydney.

In 2005 and 2006, Armytage was a regular fill-in presenter for Chris Bath on Seven News Sydney.

In October 2006, Armytage replaced Mike Amor as presenter of Seven 4.30 News. She had replaced Rebecca Maddern as presenter when the network moved production from Melbourne to Sydney.

In June 2007, Armytage was appointed co-host of Weekend Sunrise alongside Andrew O'Keefe, replacing Lisa Wilkinson who moved to Today on the Nine Network.

In 2011, she was a contestant on Dancing With The Stars and continued to file reports for Sunday Night. She was also a regular fill-in presenter on Sunrise, Today Tonight and The Morning Show.

In June 2013, Armytage was announced as the replacement for Sunrise co-host Melissa Doyle.[3]

In September 2013, Armytage replaced Melissa Doyle as co-host of Sunrise beside David Koch.[3] In 2014, she presented the ill-fated makeover reality show Bringing Sexy Back.

In March 2015, Armytage was accused of racism in an on-air interview, after congratulating a woman for looking whiter than her twin. She apologised after on online petition calling for he to do so was signed by over 2,000 people.[4]

In February 2016, a Sex and The City themed skit on Sunrise with actress Kristen Davis backfired on Armytage. Davis had appeared on the show to discuss her work with the UNHCR, but later on Twitter expressed her annoyance that Sunrise focused on her role in Sex and The City. After the incident, Armytage, who was meant to MC and conduct an interview with Davis at a UN event in Sydney, was asked not to host or attend the event.[5][6]

In March 2018, Armytage hosted a segment on Sunrise focusing on Aboriginal adoption, during which she incorrectly claimed that Aboriginal children could not be fostered by White people and stated that "Post-Stolen Generation, there's been a huge move to leave Aboriginal children where they are, even if they're being neglected in their own families." Protests were held outside the Sunrise studio in Martin Place in response to the segment.[7][8]

Family lineage

Samantha is a direct descendent of pioneer British settler George Armytage.

Samantha is a direct descendant of George Armytage, a pioneer British settler in Australia. He received sizable grants of land at Bagdad in Tasmania, and later obtained larger areas in Western Victoria as a pastoral squatter. As a result of much of this land being forcibly taken from Aboriginals by the Armytages and their colonial property managers, they were involved in several instances of frontier conflict. For example, when taking ownership of an area near Geelong in 1836, Charles Franks (a business partner of the Armytages) was speared to death by Wathaurung.[9] A subsequent punitive expedition against local Aboriginals apparently served as "a warning to the natives not in the future to commit wanton excesses" against the British occupiers.[10] The advantages, though, of obtaining vast areas of land virtually for free were soon realised and the Armytages became exceedingly wealthy, owning famous mansions such as "The Hermitage" in Geelong, and Como House in Toorak. They expanded their enterprise into properties in New South Wales and Queensland, and also into the lucrative frozen meat industry.[11] The Armytages retained their pastoral heritage into recent times, with Samantha Armytage's father being a property manager near Adaminaby.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Samantha Armytage gets candid about dating, haters and turning 40".
  2. ↑ Samantha Armytage - Weekend Sunrise co-host (Seven Network, retrieved 25 July 2013)
  3. 1 2 Queensland viewers warm to new Sunrise team of David Koch and Samantha Armytage by Geoff Shearer (The Courier-Mail, 11 July 2013)
  4. ↑ Salemme, Nadia (28 April 2015). "Sunrise co-host Samantha Armytage accused of racism in on-air interview with UK twins". News.com.au. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Armytage axed from hosting gig". NewsComAu. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  6. ↑ "Samantha Armytage replaced as host of UNHCR lunch with Kristin Davis". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  7. ↑ Davidson, Helen (16 March 2018). "Sunrise hides Indigenous protest outside studio with stock footage". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 March 2018.
  8. ↑ Schipp, Debbie (16 March 2018). "The protest Sunrise didn't want you to see". News.com.au. Archived from the original on 17 March 2018.
  9. ↑ Brown, P.L. "George Armytage". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  10. ↑ "PORT PHILIP". The Sydney Gazette And New South Wales Advertiser. XXXIV, (2854). New South Wales, Australia. 23 August 1836. p. 2. Retrieved 16 March 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ Hone, J.A. "Charles Henry Armytage". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  12. ↑ Doherty, Megan. "Sunny side of life for Armytage". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

Sources

  • "7 News presenter profile". Archived from the original on 2 December 2011.
  • Weekend Sunrise profile
  • Seven News website
  • Sunrise website
  • Samantha Armytage on IMDb
Media offices
Preceded by
Melissa Doyle		 Sunrise
Co-host with David Koch
August 2013 – present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Lisa Wilkinson		 Weekend Sunrise
Co-host with Andrew O'Keefe
24 June 2007 – 11 August 2013		 Succeeded by
Monique Wright
Preceded by
Mike Amor		 Seven 4.30 News
Monday - Wednesday presenter
October 2006 – December 2012		 Succeeded by
Rebecca Maddern
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