Late Studio 10 presenter Jesse Baird was telling friends his new boyfriend Luke Davies was ‘the one’ before they were both allegedly murdered by Baird’s ex-partner Beau Lamarre-Condon, his former colleague Sarah Harris has revealed.

A tearful Harris shared the heartbreaking detail while paying tribute to Baird on Channel Ten’s The Project on Sunday night.

Her tribute came as news broke that the search for Baird and Davies’ bodies had extended to a waterway 200km south of Sydney, and that specialist divers had been deployed.

A crime scene has been established at a dam at Bungonia in the NSW Southern Tablelands near Goulburn, about two hours’ drive south from where the double-murder allegedly occurred in Paddington, in Sydney’s east.

The search by police divers was suspended later on Sunday night which will resume on Monday morning. 

Speaking about the last time she saw Baird – who was a fill-in host for the recently cancelled morning show Studio 10 – Harris said Baird had ‘so much talent’.

She added: ‘He described [Luke] as « the one » to some of his closest friends. He was in love – and my heart just aches for not only Luke’s family but also Jesse’s family.’

She choked back tears while recalling how he would light up the Ten newsroom. 

‘It’s been a really hard week for Turske Serije a lot of us right across the Ten Network. It’s hard to even talk about Jesse in the past tense,’ she said. 

‘Jesse was more than just a colleague, he was a friend [and] like a little brother. He had this big beautiful smile [and] at 26 he was an absolute star… one of those kids that had a big smile, big talent and 2024 was supposed to be his year.

‘To Jesse’s family: he spoke about you often with so much love and we are just so sorry.’

The Project host Sarah Harris broke down in tears while paying tribute to late Studio 10 presenter Jesse Baird on Sunday night

Her tribute came just moments after it emerged the search for Baird’s body, and the body of his boyfriend Luke Davies, had extended to Goulburn, and that divers had been deployed