Sunrise host Sam Armytage jokingly asks her ‘daddy’ for an Aston Martin

She is one of Channel Seven’s most well-paid employees.

But on Thursday, Sam Armytage jokingly asked her father for an expensive luxury car during a segment on Sunrise.

The 44-year-old and her co-host David ‘Kochie’ Koch had a brief discussion after Mark Beretta’s sports report about a new F1 Aston Martin being unveiled.

The sportscaster poked fun at the F1 team after he revealed one of their drivers was the son of the billionaire who owns the team. 

‘That car looks beautiful, but what a great dad. Buy an F1 team so you can drive a car!’ Kochie joked

‘Isn’t that the way it goes?’ Sam quipped. 

‘Not for every dad, Sam,’ Mark laughed in response.

‘If my father is watching, if he is awake yet, I would love an Aston Martin, dad… daddy,’ she joked.

Sam, who reportedly earns $500,000 a year to host Sunrise, was referring to her father, Mac Armytage. 

Mac suffered a stroke last year and did rehab sessions at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney in September.

Sam said at the time: ‘Luckily he wasn’t out the back of Wagga in a paddock as he probably wouldn’t be here to tell the tale.

‘He’s a tough old bugger and he’s in rehab, frustrated but determined. And giving plenty of cheek to his long-suffering, wonderful nurses.’ 

In November, Sam tragically lost her mother, Elizabeth, to an autoimmune disease.

Despite experiencing her toughest months in 2020, Samantha ended the year on a high by marrying her partner Richard Lavender.

The pair exchanged vows in an intimate ceremony in front of a handful of family and friends at his 40-hectare estate in the Southern Highlands. 

Sam and Richard started dating in April 2019, and announced their engagement in June last year.