Mel and co-host David Koch at Melissa Doyle's Sunrise leaving party. Source: Supplied
After her leaving announcement on Sunrise, Melissa Doyle broke down in tears. Courtesy: Sunrise Seven Network
Daily Telegraph columnist and new Ten Mornings host Joe Hildebrand on the shock departure of Sunrise host Melissa Doyle
SHE has built a reputation for cutting through the hype to be first with the morning news.
So as the sun sets on her Sunrise career, Mel Doyle has one last exclusive for her loyal audience: there is no feud with her co-host David Koch.
On the eve of her final week on the morning news and current affairs show - which she is leaving to take up a prime-time news post in two weeks - a fired-up Doyle angrily denied allegations she and Koch had barely spoken off camera during the past week and that her relationship with her replacement Sam Armytage was icy.
"I do not know where these rumours start," Doyle said yesterday.
"I cannot state strongly enough: I have never, ever had any problems with my relationship with Kochie.
"He is honestly one of my dearest friends. He held farewell drinks for me at his house yesterday. He said to me, 'It has to be my house. Not at a restaurant. Not a venue. My home. Because we are family'.
"And we are family. We have spent 14 years sitting next to each other. We have stood in fire zones and flood zones.
"He held my hand when he announced my pregnancy with (second child) Talia on air. We have been through it all."Doyle spoke highly of her replacement.
"I think Sam is fantastic," she said. "She will make that show her own and put her own stamp on it and I'm excited for her."
Natalie Barr, Mel Doyle, and Kylie Gillies at Melissa Doyle's Sunrise leaving party. Source: Supplied
Rumours have circulated this week that the atmosphere on set had been made worse because viewers - and the Sunrise cast - were unsure whether to embrace Doyle or Armytage as host during Doyle's final two weeks.Despite stepping in to host the show for the past five weeks - during which time Doyle covered the royal birth and took a holiday - Armytage took a back seat on Monday to allow for Doyle's "farewell", which culminates on Friday.
The move has drawn a mixed response from viewers, with some wanting to clarify the timing and plans for Doyle's departure, and "some wanting to know where Armytage was", according to a Channel 7 source.
But Doyle said: "It doesn't feel awkward to me. I always said that I wanted to come back and do a proper farewell.
"I announced it on the show that there was no way I was just going to walk out. There was no way I was doing it like that.
Since announcing her plans to leave the show on air in June, Doyle had to personally deny via Facebook that she had been "boned" by executives who felt she had become "too mumsy".
She maintained the decision to leave the show was hers and said she was on an overseas holiday with her husband when she was "swamped by inaccuracies" she read online.
Melissa Doyle's Sunrise leaving party: Mel with Michael Pell. Source: Supplied
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