Tony Armstrong leaves ABC Breakfast

TV presenter Tony Armstrong announced he will leave ABC News Breakfast in October. Video by ABC News.

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00:00I've been pretty nervous about doing this, you can see my body language already.

00:03I've retired from News Brekkie and my last day will be the 4th of October, so that's

00:10not this Friday, the coming Friday. I'm not very good at doing this stuff but I just want to thank

00:16absolutely everyone, all of you guys, my colleagues, everyone behind the camera,

00:21all the producers, all the people who watch as well and come up in the street and say g'day

00:27and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's been a whirlwind sort of three in a touch years.

00:33A lot's happened, feels like I've been on a bit of a rocket ship, but the support that I've got

00:39from News Brekkie and I mean news in general has been, yeah, it's been amazing. So everyone that

00:47has helped me along the way and I've needed a lot of help, I'm not very good at the tools,

00:52this stuff's all right, but the computers and stuff, not so great. I haven't logged into an

00:57email for a while, so if there's one in there, I'm sorry, but yeah, huge thank you. I'm gonna

01:03miss the couch, not the alarm, but I'll miss the couch and yeah, I've had such a ball. So

01:10thank you to everyone who's played a role in me being here and I'm gonna miss everyone,

01:16but yeah, you'll still see me around.