YOU CAN’T FAKE THIS CHEMISTRY!
Newshub presenter Mike McRoberts always suspected that Samantha Hayes would end up fronting the 6pm news bulletin some day. “I just didn’t really expect that it would be with me,” he admits.
Mike had spotted Sam’s talent early on at TV3, as Three was then known. But he was very settled in his onscreen partnership with former presenter Hilary Barry and it came as a shock when, after over a decade hosting the evening news together, she left the network in 2016.
“I thought Hilary and I would be going forever,” tells Mike, 55. “I was disappointed, obviously.”
But a new on-camera “marriage” with flame-haired Sam, now 37, was soon arranged for Mike – and it breathed fresh life
