Sunrise host Sam Armytage helped design her diamond engagement ring

Samantha Armytage proudly showed off her diamond ring on Sunrise on Tuesday, two days after announcing her engagement to horse breeder Richard Lavender.

And on Tuesday, the 40-year-old breakfast TV presenter told The Kyle and Jackie O Show that she had in fact helped design the gorgeous sparkler.

When radio host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson if she’d chosen the ring, Sam said: ‘He [Richard] choose the diamond and I gave him a little bit of help with the design – because, you know Jackie, a girl wants what a girl wants!’

‘But he did very well, he choose beautifully, I was very happy,’ the Channel Seven journalist added.

Sam announced her engagement on social media over the weekend.

When she returned to Sunrise on Tuesday, she told co-host David ‘Kochie’ Koch that her fiancé had proposed on the spur of the moment ‘weeks ago’ in the paddock of his rural property in the NSW Southern Highlands.

Sam said they’d held back until Sunday to make the announcement because they were waiting for the personalised ring to arrive.

A jeweller from House of K’dor estimated the cushion-cut sparkler may have cost as much as $80,000.

‘The stone size looks to be about 2 carat [and] based on other factors such as clarity and colour, this could set you back anywhere between $20,000 and $80,000,’ the jeweller told Daily Mail Australia.

The expert continued: ‘It’s slightly elongated shape and soft round edges create the illusion of a larger stone that a round-brilliant cut stone of the same carat weight may due to larger surface area reflect light.’

The jeweller also said that the cushion-cut is ‘brilliant as it showcases a diamond’s fire and sparkle with its 58 facets’. 

Samantha and Richard, who began dating in April last year after meeting at a party, confirmed their romance to WHO magazine in November.