Her career continued to grow when in 2007, Samantha was appointed to co-anchor the weekend sunrise sharing the screen with Andrew O’Keefe replacing Lisa Wilkson who had moved to Today on Nine Network. In 2011 she participated as a contestant on Dancing With The Stars as she continued to file reports for Sunday Night. During this time she served as a fill-in broadcaster on Sunrise, Today Tonight and The Morning Show.

In June of 2013, it was announced that Samantha would be the replacement for Sunrise in place of co-host Melissa Doyle. Later that year in September, her position advanced as co-host of Sunrise beside David Koch. In 2014 she presented the reality TV show Bringing Sexy back. It was then in 2016, a Sex and The City themed skit on Sunrise with the actress Kristen Davis where the interview was anything but well done, it was near disaster. Davis, the interviewed actor, had come to discuss her work with UNCHR, the UN Refugee Agency, in hopes to promote its cause but Sunrise only wanted to focus on her role in Sec and The City. Later she twittered about her annoyance with the company. It was after this that despite Samantha having been previously invited to conduct a Q&A at a UN hosted event was then politely asked not to attend the even at all.