{"id":658113,"date":"2026-05-08T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658113\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:05:23","slug":"i-didnt-expect-you-to-say-that-the-question-that-made-sunrises-natalie-barr-break-down-live-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/658113\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I didn\u2019t expect you to say that’: The question that made Sunrise’s Natalie Barr break down live on-air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natalie Barr was reduced to tears on Friday morning after an emotional Mother’s Day segment featured a moving message from her mum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Sunrise star, 58, alongside her co-host Matt Shirvington, newsreader David Woiwod and weatherman Sam Mac, watched on as a series of interviews with their respective mothers played on the screen.<\/p>\n

Barr’s mother Julie revealed what the hardest part of motherhood is, a moment that pulled at her daughter’s heartstrings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s when everybody grows up and moves away, as you\u2019re finding out now,\u201d she said, hinting at Barr’s empty nest after her sons Lachlan, 23, and Hunter, 19, recently left home.<\/p>\n

Barr, tearing up at the admission, replied:\u00a0\u201cYeah, I don\u2019t think many people talk about when they move away.”<\/p>\n

The waterworks continued as Barr asked her mum what the one thing is she “hoped I never stop doing”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNever stop being a lovely mother, a loving mother, and a loving wife,” she told her daughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Gwyneth<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you, that\u2019s really nice. I didn\u2019t expect you to say that,\u201d Barr confessed while teary-eyed.<\/p>\n

\u201cDidn\u2019t you, though? You\u2019d be surprised what your mother will say,\u201d Julie shared.<\/p>\n

As the camera cut back to the studio, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room as Barr and Shirvington were both overcome with emotion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow. If we weren\u2019t crying before, we\u2019re crying now. Love you mum,\u201d Shirvo added.<\/p>\n

Barr chimed in: \u201cThank you to our mums, that was gorgeous.”<\/p>\n

In a moment of comedic relief, Shirvington asked: \u201cTissues please, anyone?\u201d before dashing off set to get some for his colleagues.<\/p>\n

Mother’s Day this year falls on Sunday, May 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natalie Barr was reduced to tears on Friday morning after an emotional Mother’s Day segment featured a moving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,163408,231036,134,63348,313839,57705,318147,1667,14179],"class_list":["post-658113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breakfast-show","tag-david-woiwod","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-shirvington","tag-mothers-day","tag-natalie-barr","tag-sam-mac","tag-seven","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658113","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=658113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}