Is Sonia Kruger leaving Australian TV?
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Hello and welcome to Something to Talk About, the Stella podcast. I'm Sarah Lamarquand, your host, and every week I sit down with some of the biggest names in the country because when Australia's celebrities are ready to talk, they come to Something to Talk About. Australian TV has changed a lot over the years, and yet one thing has remained remarkably consistent, Sonia Kruger. She's reinvented herself time and time again, from dancer to actor to entertainment reporter to one of Australia's longest-serving television hosts. She's not only survived a rapidly changing industry, she's evolved alongside it.
Gen X. kids who grew up in cars that didn't have seatbelts and we were out until it was dark and you know the way we grew up we survived that childhood and now I think we've carried that through into our working lives.
Now, at 60, Sonia is navigating another chapter, raising a teenage daughter, embracing a different pace of life and reflecting on what longevity really looks like, both on screen and off. On today's episode of Something to Talk About, Sonia opens up about motherhood, ageing, ambition and why she still believes her next chapter might be her most exciting yet. Sonia Kruger, welcome back to the Stellar podcast. Thank you, Sarah Lamarquand. This is your third appearance in the Stellar studio with me. You and I sat down in 2024. And then around this time last year, we sat down. You were part of a roundtable conversation with me and some of your then fellow Gold Logie nominees. Loggies look a bit different for you this year.
I understand you will be co-hosting the red carpet coverage again with Dr. Chris Brown. I don't know how you are with the frocks. Something about Sonia Kruger makes me want to say frocks.
Frocks, frocks, right. Well, I get into trouble because they're gowns. And the gown that I'm wearing is by Lea DeGloria and it is spectacular.
How did Sonia Kruger’s TV career evolve from dancer to Australia’s leading presenter?
She's an incredible Australian designer and I've been lucky enough to wear some of her dresses before. In fact, I wore one last year. Do you remember that white, beautiful pleated – it was this heavy satin.
Yeah.
And it was so gorgeous. I wore it into the actual ceremony because the dress that I was wearing was a bit hard to sit in because it was made from a very kind of – stiff sort of fabric oh is that why you did a change yeah because okay some dresses you know when you sit in them they kind of lose their shape a little bit so so and they're not so comfortable for the you know few hours that you're there for the telecast so I actually changed into this Leah DeGloria dress and I've been a I mean I've been a huge fan of hers for years I remember when Mandy McElhenney wore one of her dresses to the Logies about a decade ago and I was like wow that dress is amazing who's it by and it was Leah and then you've been
working i mean i imagine that you've learned a few things as in can i sit down in this if i'm going inside to sit down during i was going to say three hour ceremony but i think at last count the logies go for about 45 hours is that right it's quite about a fortnight i believe they yeah what i've learned is there are certain things you can wear on a show like dancing with stars or the voice and it's fine you know because because you might be in it for a few hours but Sequined things, for example, sometimes they can cut on the inside of the dress because where they cut those sequins and seam them, if the dress isn't lined, and a lot of the time they're not, they can be, by the end of it, you can be sort of shredded underneath the dress.
Anything with feathers in it. I did wear a dress once with feathers that looked so beautiful and soft, but sitting in it was like all the quills sticking into. Oh. Those parts of the body that after a few hours was like a bed of nails. Yeah, yeah. So comfort has become important but I still do love a moment and I think that just probably harks back to when I was a competitive dancer and you'd walk out onto the floor and you'd have to catch the judge's attention and what you were wearing and how you wore it and how you walked, all of that kind of played into it.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:07–2:15
2
How did Sonia Kruger’s TV career evolve from dancer to Australia’s leading presenter?
2:15–10:44
3
What does Sonia say about her red‑carpet fashion choices and on‑air comfort?
10:44–34:27
4
How did winning (and not being nominated for) the Logie change Sonia’s perspective?
34:27–39:46