Samantha Armytage reveals the important life lessons she learned during lockdown 

She took six weeks off work due to a ‘respiratory infection’ at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

So Sunrise co-host Samantha Armytage had a lot of extra time to ponder the big questions in life while recuperating at her $2.2million estate in Bowral, NSW.

In a column for Stellar Magazine, the 43-year-old revealed the important life lessons she’s learned during lockdown.

 ‘We’ve realised how annoying it is to see celebrities crying about isolation from their mansions/massage rooms/private gyms,’ she wrote.

 The TV presenter was astounded at the selfishness of others when she realised we ‘weren’t all in this together’.

‘There are members of the population who think it’s OK to spit on police officers, who will hoard products, and that there are countries who are so, so, so much worse off than us,’ she added.

Samantha also called out some of her ‘smug friends’, saying they bragged a lot less about having the perfect husband when they were forced ‘to spend 24/7’ with them.

There has also been pleasant surprises for the Channel Seven star who realised how well her 68-year-old mother Elizabeth adapted to technology and using Zoo.

But Samantha revealed her biggest realisation this year has been that she’ll ‘never, ever, ever, take toilet paper for granted again.’

Samantha has spent much of the pandemic sheltering in Bowral, where her boyfriend Richard Lavender also resides on a 40-hectare property.

Earlier this month she shared that the couple enjoyed a cosy date night in.

In photos shared to her Instagram Stories Samantha revealed that she had been treated to a gourmet food and wine delivery in the Southern Highlands.

‘Best Friday night dinner delivery ever (to a paddock),’ Samantha captioned one picture of several takeaway bags and a bottle of Artemis wine.

‘Friday night done right,’ the blonde beauty star also wrote, alongside a birds-eye view of their meals for the night – top quality fish with green vegetables.

The couple were also treated to key lime pie for dessert, and Samantha joked online that ‘when it comes in a box, it tastes even better because a professional made it’.