Fancy seeing you here! Sunrise weather presenter Sam Mac gets VERY friendly with a Today show reporter as the breakfast shows CRASH each other’s live cross while reporting on Queensland’s border reopening
The breakfast television war between Channel Seven and Nine has been raging for years.
And on Tuesday, the fierce rivalry hilariously played out on live television during a wacky on-camera showdown between Sunrise weather presenter Sam Mac and Today presenter Aislin Kriukelis.
Sam and Aislin were both presenting live from Brisbane Airport to interview domestic travellers arriving in the state for the first time since Queensland‘s borders were reopened.
Fancy seeing you here! Sunrise weather presenter Sam Mac got VERY friendly with a Today show reporter on Tuesday as the breakfast shows crashed each other’s live cross while reporting on Queensland’s border reopening
In a scene reminiscent of a Hollywood comedy, Sam began swooping into Aislin’s shots and ambushing her interviews with travellers.
At one stage, Sam even attempted to hijack the blonde’s interview with a young female passenger by grabbing Aislin’s microphone and screaming,’ Welcome back to the Today show!’
The rival presenters were later seen taking cheeky jabs at each other during a rather flirty on-air exchange.
‘Sorry, I didn’t get your name before. I actually didn’t mean to get in your shot,’ Sam grinned.
Taking the bizarre situation in good humour, Aislin giggled and playfully slapped Sam’s shoulder before suddenly realising that she was still being filmed.
‘Are we live on the TV? Oh, are we doing a live cross?’ she exclaimed, turning to the the Sunrise camera crew.
‘But your mic isn’t plugged in, so I win,’ Sam teased.
‘This is a two-camera shoot! I have dreamt of a two camera-shoot… Um, I’m sorry about butting in before, but you butt in first. Just a little bit of payback,’ he joked.
Responding with her own tongue-in-cheek jab, Ainsley declared: ‘Hey Sam! Welcome to Queensland. Let the games begin.’
‘Ooh… I love games,’ Sam coquettishly replied, before hurriedly ending the conversation by declaring: ‘OK! This is getting weird’.