DAVID KOCH ‘Being a Poppy is priceless'
Woman's Day Australia|December 27, 2021
The Sunrise star opens up about his ever-growing family
Olivia O’Brien
DAVID KOCH ‘Being a Poppy is priceless'
The only thing David “Kochie” Koch loves nearly as much as his big family is Christmas!

“I do a Santa’s cave in our family room and I try and add some extra stuffeach year, so we’re on the hunt for extras,” the 65-year-old Sunrise host tells Woman’s Day, while on the way to his local Bunnings with his eldest grandchild Matilda, 14, to stock up on Christmas decorations.

“She’s my assistant. But my wife Lib is putting a dampener on it because she says we have too many inflatable decorations.”

Kochie’s wife of 42 years Libby, 64, may not be a fan, but the teen is following in the festive footsteps of her “Poppy”.

“It’s just so fun,” she tells Woman’s Day. “I love that the Christmas spirit has been passed down to me.”

Proud pops Kochie, who has four children, Georgina, 31, AJ, 34, Bree, 37, and Samantha, 41, is hoping his love of Christmas is also inherited by his other seven grandchildren – Oscar, 12, Lila, 10, Jax, nine, Teddy, five, Ella, 18 months, Florence, seven weeks, and four-week-old Catalina.

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