Natalie Barr reveals the secret item that she has hidden underneath her desk

Natalie Barr spends her early mornings filming a live breakfast television show. 

And the Sunrise host has revealed her secret weapon for staying comfortable on the air – a heater hidden under her desk. 

In a post shared to Instagram, the 54-year-old filmed the three heaters sitting under the feet of her co-stars and herself. 

‘Winter is coming. Heaters = check. Thermals in the freezing studio = check. Me whinging about how cold it is=check. Sorry’ she wrote in the caption.

She further explained in the comments: ‘I had three thermals on this morning. The studio is freezing’.   

Natalie revealed in March that never in her ‘wildest dreams’ could she have imagined herself working on Australia’s No. 1 breakfast show. 

‘I hated uni and my parents said I could leave if I got a job and I sent letters to so many places,’ the Perth-born journalist said. 

‘And I was so excited when the Wanneroo Times answered because they were the only ones who responded, or didn’t tell me to go away.

‘I just wanted to make it on TV one day. I couldn’t have dreamt I would end up in Sydney, let alone on a show like this. It is way beyond my wildest dreams growing up in Bunbury. ‘

While she has worked on Sunrise since 2003, Barr didn’t move to the main desk until March last year, when she replaced Samantha Armytage as host.

She co-anchors Seven’s breakfast show with David ‘Kochie’ Koch.

Also in March, Barr revealed why she will never become a fixture of tabloid headlines like her outspoken predecessor.

She told Who magazine she doesn’t attract the same level of press attention as Armytage because she lives a ‘normal life’.

‘I’m naturally boring. I do the grocery shopping and I just do normal stuff that people do,’ Barr said.

She also admitted she felt ‘scared’ during the first few months in the top job but eventually ‘found [her] feet’.

Armytage quit Channel Seven’s breakfast show in March 2021 after a successful TV career spanning two decades.