Too far? Sunrise weatherman Sam Mac shocks co-host Natalie Barr in a VERY awkward exchange
The gaffe occurred when Natalie and co-host Matt Shirvington were interviewing Sydney Swans AFL star Isaac Heeney.
As the interview was wrapping up, Isaac bizarrely referred to Matt as 'daddy Shirvo.'
The odd nickname piqued Natalie's interest, who asked her co-star: 'Did he just call you daddy Shirvo?'
Looking sheepish, Matt refused to reveal the story behind the unique nickname, offering an evasive: 'It might be.'
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Nat then asked if the name was uttered for a dare, and Matt's response only raised more questions than it answered.
'I am not going to quote Donald Trump,' he replied with a grin.
Keeping the joke going, Nat then threw to the affable weatherman with: 'Let's go to daddy Sam.'
Sam, who was reporting from Akaroa, New Zealand, took things a little too far with a response that even he realised was beyond the pale.
'Thank you, mummy Nat,' he said, before almost instantly regretting his choice of words.
'Oh, that felt awful, sorry,' he said.
'I feel sick in my mouth saying it. I was just trying to run with it – doesn't quite work though, does it?'
quite work though, does it?'
Natalie wholeheartedly agreed with Sam's assessment, offering an emphatic: 'That did not work,' before Sam apologised to his co-star.
The awkward exchange comes after Sam donned his investigative reporter hat to expose a sparkling water scam.
He took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a clip that showed him dining alone at a restaurant with a one-litre bottle of San Pellegrino mineral water on the table.
The clip showed Sam looking crestfallen as he attempted to polish off the bottle solo.
Captioning the video, Sam claimed that the large bottle of water was forced upon him, despite smaller bottles being available.
'Waiter asked if I wanted still or sparkling. I said sparkling and suddenly I was the next victim of the #sparklingscam,' Sam wrote.
As the video showed Sam laboriously attempting to finish the bottle, he admitted that he was doing so as a matter of principle.
'Not today, bro,' he added.
'I will drink that one-litre bottle of sparkling water whether my bladder likes it or not. It's the principle. Fight the power. They are fully aware it's available in 250ml bottles.'
The camera then panned to Sam's receipt which showed a $12 price tag for the Italian water before he repeated his hashtag #sparklingscam.'
'This might be a little niche… but is anyone else onto the #SparklingScam?' Sam captioned the clip.
Sam's intrepid reporting certainly struck a chord, with many followers commenting that they, too, had fallen victim to the 'scam'.
'Every time,' one fan wrote.
'It happened to me in France too, and I took the bottle with me and the waiter chased me down the street and demanded it back.'
Another offered: 'And then when they have it on tap, put it in a bottle and still charge you $12.'
A third added that they were behind Sam's call with: 'Omg this is my pet peeve!!!
'Especially restaurants that keep filling up your glass to run the bottle asap, then replace it without asking you!!! Such a rort.'
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