Sunrise host Natalie Barr disappears halfway through live broadcast: This is the emotional reason for her sudden departure

Sunrise host Natalie Barr surprised viewers when she disappeared halfway through the Channel Seven breakfast show on Wednesday morning.

The 55-year-old was co-hosting the show with Matt Shirvington, when she revealed she’d be leaving early to attend her youngest son Hunter’s final school assembly.

‘Today is a big day for me, it’s our last son’s last school assembly so I’m about to take off,’ Natalie told viewers.

‘It’s quite emotional and it’s a bit of a milestone. It’s a big day.’

Natalie explained that the school will be hosting a ‘big assembly’ and then they’ll be having a nice lunch.

‘[It’s a big deal] especially because it’s my last one going through so I’ll take the rest of the show off,’ she added.

Last week, Natalie said she’s been getting emotional over her youngest son Hunter’s impending graduation from high school.

Speaking to a pregnant Miranda Kerr on Sunrise, Natalie told the Australian model to make the most of her four boys’ childhood years.

‘It’s my last child’s last day of school today, so I know it gets busy, but make the most of it,’ she told the beauty who is expecting her fourth child to Evan Spiegel.

‘Because then you’ll be crying like I will be next week when they have their assembly.’

The 55-year-old was co-hosting the show with Matt Shirvington, when she revealed she would be leaving early to attend her youngest son Hunter’s final school assembly 

It came just a few weeks after Natalie admitted she felt like a ‘failure’ as a mother after she gave birth to her first son Lachlan.

The Sunrise host, who shares Lachlan, 22, and Hunter with her husband Andrew Thompson, said she felt like a ‘useless mum’ when she couldn’t get her firstborn to sleep as a baby.

She confessed on the No Filter podcast late last month that she became ‘distraught’ about the situation.

‘I was so distraught because I had a non-sleeping baby and it was, as lots of mums would know, the most helpless feeling,’ she told host Mia Freedman.

‘My dad had just died, I was six months pregnant when my dad had died, so then you think, is that why? Am I still mourning?’

It comes just a few weeks after Natalie admitted she felt like a ‘failure’ as a mother after she gave birth to her first son Lachlan, 22, (centre with his father Andrew Thompson)

Natalie went on to reveal a woman in her mother’s group blamed her for going back to work, saying it was the reason her baby wouldn’t sleep.

‘There’s all this unhelpful information around. You take everything on, you just feel like a useless mum,’ the breakfast show host confessed.

Lachlan’s restlessness became so bad that Natalie and her husband Andrew, who are notoriously private about their children, sought help from a ‘baby whisperer’.

Natalie then revealed her second son Hunter, who was born four years later, was a much better sleeper.

The Sunrise host said she felt like a ‘useless mum’ when she couldn’t get her firstborn to sleep as a baby