Samantha Armytage has given fans a very racy reason to tune in to The Golden Bachelor next year. The former breakfast TV host, who turned 50 earlier this month, sent pulses racing on Friday by uploading a busty, ai-generated image of herself in the 1980s. The 80s-style AI portrait trend has taken social media by storm in recent days, with millions of users turning to platforms such as ChatGPT to render retro versions of themselves to share with friends and family. In Samantha’s image, the blonde can be seen posing in a faux ad for her Channel Nine show The Golden Bachelor, dressed in a low-cut gold romper that displayed serious cleavage. Her ai avatar completed her look with a shoulder-padded gold jacket, matching gold boots and jewellery, as well as a voluminous 80s-style hairdo. Samantha couldn’t help but make fun of the eye-popping image in the caption, joking that she looks exactly the same in real life as she does in the ai-generated portrait. Samantha Armytage has given fans a very racy reason to tune in to The Golden Bachelor next year, sharing this AI-generated promo for the show to Instagram on Friday ‘I’m late to the party on last week’s fad… proudly & as usual. But my mate/Golden Bach EP Vanessa Oxlad kindly ran my pic through the 80’s app this morning (as I didn’t know how…),’ the veteran presenter began. Poking fun at her exposed cleavage, Samantha continued: ‘And 2 things stand out; No, not those things…’ ‘1. 80’s Sam is EXACTLY the same as 2026 Sam. And 2. I have never loved a pic of myself more,’ she continued, musing: ‘I am nothing if not consistent through the decades.’It comes after Samantha revealed a major twist for the new season of The Golden Bachelor while speaking to The Daily Mail at the Channel Nine Upfronts on Thursday. ‘We’ve got two Golden Bachelors in season two, so there was a lot more going on,’ Samantha said.’It was a lot busier, a lot more chaos, a lot more drama, which of course, you know, it’s reality TV. We love that. We lean into that.’Elsewhere during her interview at the Upfronts, Samantha reflected on Nine’s decision to cast Sylvia Jeffreys and Tom Steinfort as the new hosts of Today following the departure of Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo.The veteran presenter had been considered a natural contender for a permanent spot on the Today couch. It comes after Samantha revealed a major twist for the new season of The Golden Bachelor while speaking to The Daily Mail at the Channel Nine Upfronts on Thursday But after spending 15 years in breakfast television, including eight years fronting Seven’s ratings juggernaut Sunrise, Sam said she was in ‘two minds’ about whether she would ever want to return to the punishing breakfast TV schedule permanently.’This was never about me going back into breakfast television. This was always a fill-in, which I was happy to do when Sarah was on maternity leave,’ she said. ‘I said right from the start that I have done 15 years of breakfast TV at the highest possible level on such a huge show as Sunrise.’So I was very much in two minds about whether I really wanted to go back into those hours and that much attention.’Look, I think it’s all worked out for the best. And as I’ve said publicly before, I have done it at the highest levels. I didn’t need to do it again.’Sam later doubled down on her decision, saying she was determined to keep moving forward as she enters a new chapter of her career.’I feel like going back into breakfast TV would have been going backwards, and I don’t want to do that at 50,’ she said.’I’m in forward motion and watch… well, watch this space.’ ‘We’ve got two Golden Bachelors in season two, so there was a lot more going on,’ Samantha said. ‘It was a lot busier, a lot more chaos, a lot more drama, which of course, you know, it’s reality TV. We love that. We lean into that’ Sylvia Jeffreys and Tom Steinfort will take over the Today show. Samantha told Daily Mail Australia that she has already conquered breakfast television and has nothing left to proveArmytage also threw her support firmly behind Jeffreys, describing her appointment as part of a much-needed ‘changing of the guard’ in Australian television.’I think Sylvia is a fabulous choice – I think it’s a wonderful changing of the guard, actually. ‘It’s time for some fresh faces. Let’s get these younger female talent onto our screens,’ she continued. ‘I wish them all the best. I think they will do a spectacular job with it, and I hope they put up a good fight.’