{"id":245815,"date":"2025-10-28T07:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245815\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:14:16","slug":"life-is-hard-samantha-armytage-fights-back-tears-as-she-opens-up-about-her-marriage-breakdown-with-ex-richard-lavender-on-the-golden-bachelor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245815\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Life is hard&#8217;: Samantha Armytage fights back tears as she opens up about her marriage breakdown with ex Richard Lavender on The Golden Bachelor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Armytage has been moved to tears as she opened up about heartbreak during a powerful conversation on The Golden Bachelor.<\/p>\n<p>The host of Nine\u2019s new dating series took a moment to reflect on grief as she held a ladies\u2019 lunch with some 15 bachelorettes vying for 61-year-old widower Barry \u2018Bear\u2019 Myrden\u2019s heart on Monday evening\u2019s third episode.<\/p>\n<p>Armytage alluded to her own marriage breakdown with her husband of four years, equestrian businessman Richard Lavender, in 2024 as the contestants shared their personal stories of separation and divorce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody goes through s**t,\u201d the host said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife is hard and messy, there\u2019s not a person on the planet who doesn\u2019t feel like that or go through that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou kind of wear it like a badge of honour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I wear some of my grief now like a badge of honour. You\u2019ve been through crap &#8211; you\u2019ve survived it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armytage\u2019s voice broke as she added: \u201cThere\u2019s no instruction manual on how to leave a marriage, I\u2019m saying this from firsthand experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her admission came as front-runner Jan opened up about how she discovered her ex-husband\u2019s three-year affair on her 40th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Among the heartfelt stories was Terri\u2019s, who, through tears, said she learned about her ex-husband\u2019s girlfriend after he introduced her to their children without Terri\u2019s knowledge while they were still married.<\/p>\n<p>Armytage offered her sympathies to the women after saying she was <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/lifestyle\/celebrity-life\/im-having-fun-samantha-armytage-makes-surprising-love-life-confession-after-divorce-as-tv-host-shuts-down-rumours-she-is-dating-the-golden-bachelor\/news-story\/4d4ee0f065f4fe81712fd7db225ce25e\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"4d4ee0f065f4fe81712fd7db225ce25e\" data-tgev-label=\"lifestyle\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">optimistic about finding love again on the Tess Rowe Big Talk Show.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course I\u2019ll find love again,\u201d Armytage said on the podcast last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I\u2019m keeping my options open.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am fine. Don\u2019t worry about me, I\u2019m having fun as always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Sunrise presenter added while she was not actively searching for a new man in her life, she would be picky when he comes along.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will find love again for sure. I\u00a0don\u2019t know when. When the time is right, he will arrive. And I\u2019ll be very good at choosing this time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>While she waits for Mr Right, Armytage and Golden Bachelor sparked romance rumours after the pair attended the Logies together in August.<\/p>\n<p>Armytage walked the red carpet in an eye-catching champagne tulled gown with a very dapper-looking Bear on her arm at TV&#8217;s night of nights.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bear put the rumours to rest at the Golden Bachelor premiere in Sydney last Monday where he gushed about Armytage\u2019s professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, well, that\u2019s to be expected,\u201d he told Daily Mail of the claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s just say they are rumours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She (Armytage) was sensational&#8230; I used her as a mentor the whole way through, and she said, \u2018follow your heart,\u2019 which I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Armytage announced her split from Lavender, 61, last December, just weeks before their fourth wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Richard and I have separated. All breakups are hard, but it\u2019s somewhat lessened by the fact that it\u2019s amicable, and we wish the best for each other,\u201d she said in a statement to The Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate you respecting our privacy. I won\u2019t be making any further comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The split shocked some industry insiders after Armytage told Woman\u2019s Day she quit her plum role hosting Sunrise to live at Lavender\u2019s 40-hectare estate in NSW\u2019s Southern Highlands.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the journalist has since decamped back to Sydney\u2019s eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samantha Armytage has been moved to tears as she opened up about heartbreak during a powerful conversation on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,146153,134,37505,35021,427],"class_list":["post-245815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barry-bear-myrden","tag-entertainment","tag-samantha-armytage","tag-the-golden-bachelor","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}