After a romantic wedding in March followed by their first overseas family holiday, seasoned broadcaster Sam Wallace and wife Sarah look at each other with wry smiles and sum up their 2022 in one word – “expensive”.
In a rare quiet moment for the couple – whose son Brando, four, is at preschool and 22-month-old twin daughters Sienna and Cosette are upstairs taking a nap – the realisation suddenly hits as to how big their past year has really been. “It’s only now I’m reflecting on it that yeah, it’s been massive,” says Sam, a breakfast host on Coast FM and television co-host on Ten 7: Aotearoa.
“There’s also recently a sense of normality coming back to our lives, now we’re out of the survival mode of newborn twins. It’s taken us almost two years to get to that stage where we can have a bit of time back to ourselves rather than every waking moment chasing
