Samantha Armytage shares moving tribute to her ‘glamorous’ Nanny Flannery on her 98th birthday

Samantha Armytage has shared a touching tribute to her grandmother.

The ex-Sunrise star, 46, took to Instagram on Sunday to share two rarely seen photos of her beloved Nanna Flannery alongside sweet words.

“Congratulations on my beautiful babysitter Flannery,” she began.

’98 today. So glamorous, so strong, my beautiful role model in how to be a gracious woman… Isn’t she amazing?!? I love her dearly.’

It comes after Samantha revealed she has six chickens on the farm she shares with husband Richard Lavender.

‘Meet our new girls. I’ve named five,” she wrote alongside a photo of the hens playing in their coop.

She then revealed that she chose a color theme when naming five of the birds, Chastity Brown, Millie Bobbie Brown, Capability Brown, and Tina Brown.

Her husband named the sixth Brownie.

Sam sold her home in North Bondi in July 2020 for $2.8 million, before moving to a farm in the Southern Highlands to live with Richard.

She married Lavender, a successful equestrian businessman, at his 40-acre estate in Bowral on New Year’s Eve in 2020.

The journalist met her husband at socialite Skye Leckie’s 60th birthday party in April 2019, and she said they instantly clicked.

She told it before Stellar: ‘I think we are a good match. I was lucky to meet him at that point in my life.’

Richard added of the early days of their romance, “A lot has been said about that sort of thing, but honestly I think she was just looking for something different when she met me.”

Richard is a stakeholder in Lavender Equestrian, which provides a variety of services for horses in the region, including breeding and training.

According to ownership records, his 40-acre farm in Berrima cost $1.95 million when he bought it in 2007.