After months of speculation, it has been confirmed TV veteran Samantha Armytage is headed back to her roots, breakfast television.

Channel Nine has announced she will be filling in at the Today Show desk over the Christmas break while Sarah Abo and Karl Stefanovic are on holidays.

Armytage, who co-hosted Seven’s Sunrise with David Koch from 2013 to 2021, is the current host of the inaugural season of the Australian version of the Golden Bachelor.

Nine revealed Armytage will team up with media personality Michael “Wippa” Wipfli from mid-December, with Abo and Stefanovic to return on January 19.

There have been ongoing rumours of secret plans, reportedly championed by Stefanovic, for Armytage to replace Abo and take a permanent hosting gig alongside her former brekkie rival.

The rumours

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