Sonia Kruger leaving Dancing with the Stars to host Big Brother SONIA Kruger will host the new-look Big Brother when it returns to TV next year.
Channel Nine has poached the popular Dancing with the Stars host from arch rival Seven with the promise of the plum BB job and a daytime TV role.
Kruger is rumoured to have beat off stiff competition from the likes of Hamish Blake and Andy Lee to secure the job on the revamped, controversial fly-on-the-wall series.
She succeeds Gretel Killeen, who hosted the show from its inception in 2001 to 2007, and Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O who co-hosted the last series in 2008.
Kruger has been with the Seven network since 1997 but her contract ended in late October. She is said to be eager to try something new after working on Dancing since it began in 2004, but Seven was unable to offer anything to keep her on its books.
Luring Kruger - easily one of Seven’s most popular personalities - is a coup for Nine and will leave a gaping whole in the highly-successful Dancing line-up when it returns.
Seven has already begun casting for the next series, so it is unlikely to be scrapped because of Kruger’s sudden departure. The series has already survived host Daryl Somers' decision to bow out in 2007, when he was replaced with Daniel Macpherson.
The obvious replacement for Kruger would have to be the under-utilised Fifi Box who, aside from narrating reality series Four Weddings, has very little other responsibilities at the network.
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