{"id":695171,"date":"2026-05-26T07:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695171\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:08:16","slug":"she-was-just-pure-magic-samantha-armytages-heartbreaking-loss-as-her-grandmother-dies-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695171\/","title":{"rendered":"‘She was just pure magic’: Samantha Armytage’s heartbreaking loss as her grandmother dies at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samantha Armytage’s grandmother Dorothy has passed away at 100 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Golden Bachelor host took to social media on Tuesday to share the devastating family news with her fans, penning a heartfelt tribute to “Nanny Flannery” accompanied by a collection of family photographs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Last week we laid our beautiful Nanny Flannery to rest. She was 100 & she was just pure magic,” the 49-year-old Nine star shared on Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\u2018Made<\/p>\n

Calling her late grandmother “universally adored”, she added: “And in return, she was adoring. A grandmother’s love is like no other.”<\/p>\n

“She loved colour ~ esp yellow ~ & fittingly, the autumn day she passed, the light shone through the glorious Ginkgo [sic] tree in my garden.”<\/p>\n

Armytage went on to say that her grandmother was now “shining” with the TV star’s mother and their dog Banjo.<\/p>\n

“How lucky am I to have 3 Guardian Angels,” she penned, adding: “She deserves a good rest.. but Lordy, we shall miss her.”<\/p>\n

\"Stephen<\/p>\n

Signing off the post, she wrote: “Dorothy Flannery, 1925 ~2026.”<\/p>\n

Alongside the moving caption was a series of throwback snaps, selfies and special moments with her grandmother, as well as text messages she had received from friends in the wake of Nanny Flannery’s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fans and friends flooded the comments section of the social media post with love and support for the TV star.<\/p>\n

“Sorry to hear Sam. Sending you lots of love xxx,” Bachelor star Anna Heinrich wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fellow Nine presenter Belinda Russell penned: “Such beautiful tributes for your Nanny Flannery. What a wonderful woman she must have been. Sending big hugs to you and your family.”<\/p>\n

“How incredible, 100 years old .Sorry for your loss x,” former MAFs star Jules Robinson chimed in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sad news comes six years after Armytage’s mum Elizabeth ‘Libby’ Armytage passed away from heart failure at the age of 68.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samantha Armytage’s grandmother Dorothy has passed away at 100 years old.\u00a0 The Golden Bachelor host took to social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,36783,1300,134,2582,119164,22803,1202,20975,37505,1314],"class_list":["post-695171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-channel-nine","tag-death","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-golden-bachelor","tag-grandmother","tag-instagram","tag-nine","tag-samantha-armytage","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695171","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=695171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}