Samantha Armytage features on Stellar liftout inside News Corp papers today.
Full interview including BTS at her Stellar photoshoot
Some excerpts
Stellar: You’ve been away from our TV screens for a while but are coming back to host The Golden Bachelor. There’s a lot of excitement about this new series; how are you feeling about it?
Samantha Armytage: I’m really excited. I think everyone’s a bit excited about this show. It’s something completely new, with people who have lived a life. So it has real depth to it. And you don’t often say that about reality dating shows.
Stellar: Back on April 1, 2016, when I was in a previous role as an opinion editor, we published a story announcing that a new show was about to air called The Bachelor: The Senior Years. As we confirmed later that day, this “announcement” was of course an April Fool’s Day joke. And yet here we are, nine years later …
Samantha Armytage: What a prediction. And it made sense. It’s not like anything we’ve seen before. [The women] are in their 50s and 60s and Bear, the Golden Bachelor, is 61. This is a section of the community that has been ignored by television and society for way too long. We’re dealing with boomers here … These ladies were the wild girls of the ’60s and now they’re grown up. They’re in their power. They’re beautiful, accomplished, funny. They’ve raised children, some of them are enjoying being grandparents. They’re divorced or widowed. They didn’t know when they went into their marriages 20, 30 years ago how life would turn out, which none of us do. So they found themselves in this position, and they’re not ready to go out to pasture. They’ve still got so much living to do.