Sam Worthington claps back at Channel Seven reporter over awkward Lara Bingle remark

Sam Worthington attended the 2024 GQ Man of the Year Awards in Sydney on Wednesday with wife Lara Worthington. 

The low profile couple’s night out got off to a bumpy start when a red carpet interview went horribly wrong on live TV.  

Channel Seven reporter Sally Bowery introduced Sam’s 37-year-old wife to viewers by her maiden name Lara Bingle – and it quickly went down like a lead balloon. 

‘Her name is Lara Worthington,’ the 48-year-old Avatar star clapped back.

‘It’s only been ten years,’ a clearly irritated Sam quickly added.

Bowery quickly apologised for her disastrous faux pas.

Channel Seven reporter Sally Bowery (pictured) introduced Sam’s 37-year-old wife to viewers by her maiden name Lara Bingle – and it quickly went down like a lead balloon

‘That was my slip,’ she said.

Late on in the evening, the Avatar star was crowned GQ’s Man of the Year. 

The couple arrived Down Under with their young family on Tuesday.

The model arrived at Sydney Airport on Tuesday alongside her husband, Sam Worthington, and their three young sons, Racer, eight, River, four and Rocket, nine.

The notoriously private couple welcomed their son River in a shroud of secrecy, with estimates that his birth happened sometime between March and June in 2020.

Their older sons were born in 2015 and 2016.

When it comes to fatherhood, Sam told Stellar magazine he doesn’t always get it right, but tries his best.

‘I’ve tried to handle [fame] carefully. It is hard; there’s no book to tell you how to do it. There’s no set of rules,’ he told the publication.

‘Her name is Lara Worthington,’ the 48-year-old Avatar star clapped back. ‘It’s only been ten years,’ a clearly irritated Sam quickly added 

‘I have made a few mistakes. And that’s okay. You grow from that’.

Sam also stressed that it’s important to him that his sons know a normal life full of sports and cartoons like any other kid, far from the trappings of fame.

‘Now I’ve got kids, it’s more a case of protecting my kids from [attention],’ he said at the time.

‘At the moment, my kids don’t care what their dad does. They don’t look at my job in any spectacular way.

‘They just want me to take them to soccer practice and hang out and watch Paw Patrol. You’re doing your best to have this balance, and that’s all you can do.’

Lara also told The Daily Telegraph that the pair, who met in 2013, are enjoying growing old together.

‘As a family unit, we’re all very close. We’ve only got each other. Sam and I are a good team’ she said.

Lara and Sam began dating in 2013 and married secretly in 2014