Channel Seven has introduced Samantha Armytage’s substitute on Farmer Needs A Spouse after her shock departure.
The TV star, 48, has moved to 9 to host the community’s Aussie Bachelor spin-off sequence The Golden Bachelor after quitting Seven in August.
Natalie Gruzlewski will likely be making a return to the present after she was changed by Samantha in 2022.
On Wednesday, Seven’s Chief Content material Officer, Brook Corridor gushed over the ‘genuine’ new season of the courting program following Sam’s departure.
‘We nonetheless maintain them in that lane of actually pure and attempt to maintain it genuine,’ she mentioned on the Seven’s 2025 Upfronts in line with TV Tonight.
‘I am nonetheless amazed at every of these first meets, the place normally two out of the 5 farmers battle to talk to the ladies after they are available in.’
‘We’re truly filming this week, the ultimate choices and a few farmers are very, very completely satisfied the place they’re. So I believe we’ll have extra of these success tales once more.’
Outgoing Farmer Needs A Spouse host Samantha shocked followers in August when she stepped down from Seven after 21 years, with rumours rife about her subsequent step.
Channel Seven has introduced Samantha Armytage’s substitute on Farmer Needs A Spouse after her shock departure
Natalie Gruzlewski will likely be making a return to the present after she was changed by Samantha in 2022
Her new TV gig on The Golden Bachelor was lastly unveiled at 9’s Upfronts, the place the community’s schedule of 2025 programming was unveiled to invited friends.
‘I believe you are all going to like this. It is love for the golden ages,’ Samantha mentioned within the video interview with 9Entertainment.
‘Once I acquired the decision to affix the present, I did not hesitate. [The Golden Bachelor] has been big in America, and I’ve a sense it is gonna be big in Australia, too.’
‘We’re past thrilled to welcome Samantha Armytage to 9 as the brand new host for our quest for love, the Golden Bachelor, the place everybody deserves a second likelihood at love,’ 9’s Chief Advertising Officer Liana Dubois added.
Warner Bros Australia first sparked hypothesis a couple of native model of the present in November 2023 after they put out a fall for ‘enjoyable, energetic, and outgoing male seniors aged 60 or over who’re divorced/widowed’ to participate in a brand new courting sequence.
‘We need to hear from you or anybody who wish to nominate somebody they know to participate within the present. We need to rejoice love at all ages and present that on the subject of discovering love and romance, age is only a quantity,’ they added.
Seven’s Chief Content material Officer Brook Corridor has gushed over the ‘genuine’ new season of the courting program following Sam’s departure
The primary US model of The Golden Bachelor starred father-of-two and widower Gerry Turner, 72, with a Golden Bachelorette model then launching with widow Joan Vassos, 61, trying to discover love.
The US model of the present has been wildly profitable, with its finale garnering 6.1million viewers, making it essentially the most watched closing episode of the American Bachelor sequence since 2021.
Samantha’s involvement within the actuality TV present got here after weeks of hypothesis that she was becoming a member of the Bachelor franchise and had signed a cope with 9.
An insider described Samantha’s new internet hosting job as a ‘sensible transfer’ and mentioned she was ‘well-suited’ to the idea after ‘respiration new life’ into Seven’s courting present FWAW.
Her new 9 contract is rumoured to be value a ‘important quantity,’ in line with sources, however no actual numbers have been launched.
The report scuttled rumours that earlier Bachelor host Osher Gunsberg would make a return to the franchise.
