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🎥 Sonia Kruger on her time with Channel 7... · KIIS Breakfast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kiss Breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, our 7U Spotlight's going to present a very special
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  Speaker 2: 70 years of Channel 7 this Sunday, 8pm on 7. Now,
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  Speaker 2: she hasn't been there for that long.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Sonia Kruger, 20 years though? 20 years, Sonia?
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  Speaker 1: Mikey, yeah, yeah, pretty much close to that. Isn't it funny,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you think about it, 70 years. ago
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  Speaker 1: we had three channels and now we've got i don't
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  Speaker 1: know 47 streamers and we're still going we've got nothing
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  Speaker 1: to watch.
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  Speaker 2: I know i still remember when foxtel came out right
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  Speaker 2: because we just grew up having what did you have
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  Speaker 2: abc 7 9 10 yes on sbs yes right but
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  Speaker 2: five in total yeah yeah and then fuck i remember
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  Speaker 2: when we got just channel after channel after channel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember.
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  Speaker 3: And you're so right, Sonia. I feel like we are
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  Speaker 3: so inundated with shows and streaming services that sometimes it
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  Speaker 3: just gets so overwhelming. I sat down on the couch
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  Speaker 3: yesterday to watch something and then I just flicked for
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  Speaker 3: like 40 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It couldn't land on anything and then I just went
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  Speaker 2: to bed.
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  Speaker 1: It's too overwhelming.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: We spend 45 minutes just looking for something to watch
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  Speaker 1: and we don't watch anything. Whereas I think the thing
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  Speaker 1: about when you look back at TV and it is
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  Speaker 1: quite nostalgic, you know, the TV used to be the
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  Speaker 1: central point of the room, this giant box. And people
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  Speaker 1: used to have TV rooms and everybody would sit around
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  Speaker 1: and watch the same thing and then talk about it
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  Speaker 1: the next day. And when television was live, it was
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  Speaker 1: great because, you know, the best thing about live television
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  Speaker 1: is anything can happen. And the worst thing is anything
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  Speaker 1: can happen. So, you know, um, Yeah, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: that's covered in the special, that's for sure. When you
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  Speaker 1: think about things like royal weddings and huge news events,
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  Speaker 1: to when reality TV first started. And somebody brought up
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  Speaker 1: the other day Sylvania Waters. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: Sylvania Waters? Do you remember Sylvania Waters? Was that a
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  Speaker 1: reality show? It was literally... It was. It was like
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  Speaker 1: literally one of the first reality proper kind of fly
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  Speaker 1: on the wall reality type shows around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was on ABC, I think, and they were
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  Speaker 2: like these Bogan family that lived in Sylvania waters in Sydney.
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  Speaker 3: Was it as bad as The Shire?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was similar. Sonia, tell us for you, how
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  Speaker 2: did you get started in telly? Because you were in
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  Speaker 2: a movie, right? I'm not just making that up. You
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  Speaker 2: were in Strictly Ballroom.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, I was. And then after Strictly Ballroom, I
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  Speaker 1: realized I really wasn't probably a great dramatic actor, but
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  Speaker 1: I loved the whole world of showbiz. And so Wonderworld,
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  Speaker 1: which was this kids' magazine show, they used to advertise
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  Speaker 1: in the paper and say, do you want to be
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  Speaker 1: a TV star? So I sent them a ransom note
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  Speaker 1: and I said, we've got Tina Sparkle, which was the
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  Speaker 1: character I played in Strictly Ballroom. And if you want
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  Speaker 1: to see her alive, call this number. So I ended
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  Speaker 1: up getting that job and that was my first job
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  Speaker 1: in TV. And then from there I went to work
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  Speaker 1: on 11am, which was a, which was a morning kind
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  Speaker 1: of news program on Channel 7, and we were regularly
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  Speaker 1: outrated by Concepts in Mathematics on the ABC. So, look,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a huge success, but it was my very
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  Speaker 1: first job there. And I remember the guy who gave
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  Speaker 1: it to me, Grant Rule, I'm forever sort of indebted
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  Speaker 1: to him for giving me a start. Yeah, that's so.
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  Speaker 2: It's so impressive.
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  Speaker 3: You've been with The Seven Network for, obviously, two decades now,
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  Speaker 3: and I think you even came back after leaving. And so, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you must have... You must have seen so much good stuff,
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  Speaker 3: good news, so many exciting events. Has there been a
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  Speaker 3: moment in television that has really stuck with you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. Do you know, that's such a hard...
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  Speaker 1: It's a great question, Amy, but it's such a hard
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  Speaker 1: question to answer. I think the thing that has stuck
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  Speaker 1: with me are the friendships that I've made. And what
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  Speaker 1: we've done in the 70 Years Special on 7 is
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  Speaker 1: we've got seven people who've been there, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time. So we've got Bruce McIverney, Joe Criggs,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Usher is hosting it, Georgie Parker, Larry Emder. Yeah. Effie,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Mary Costas. Yeah. And they're all people, Natalie Barr,
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  Speaker 1: they're all people that we are all actually really good
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  Speaker 1: buddies and great friends. And I think people assume that
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  Speaker 1: television is very dog-eat-dog and it's cutthroat and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: But you actually, well, I can only speak for myself.
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  Speaker 1: I have made some really amazing friends along the way.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that we all got to sit around
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  Speaker 1: and kind of talk about those memories of television as kids,
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  Speaker 1: when we were kids growing up and watching it. It's really–
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  Speaker 1: it was a great, fun special to make. And it's
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  Speaker 1: very warm and quite funny. I mean, we did talk
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  Speaker 1: about a couple of highlights. For me, Dancing with the Stars,
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  Speaker 1: when Tom Williams took his shirt off, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. How could we forget? Yep. And normally for me
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  Speaker 1: to get a tradie to take their shirt off, I
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  Speaker 1: have to pay cash up front. Yeah. You know, I–
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  Speaker 1: I do quite a bit of unnecessary renovation at my place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for that reason.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Tom was always on time. Unusual for a trader
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  Speaker 1: to be on time for a job. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Terry was. He'd turn up for rehearsal. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: memories like that. Working with Daryl on Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 1: I watched him on Hey Hey as a kid. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was... quite amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, before we let you go, I think you could
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  Speaker 2: help us settle this debate. Yesterday, Amy was saying she
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  Speaker 2: wants to put up a Christmas tree now, on the
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  Speaker 2: 8th of October.
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  Speaker 3: No, I said I want to put it up sometime
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  Speaker 3: in October. I don't normally do this, but I figured
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  Speaker 3: I love my Christmas tree. I paid a lot of
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  Speaker 3: money for it, and I've got to get more cost
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  Speaker 3: per use out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I know you love Christmas, Sonia. When should it
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  Speaker 2: go up? I say 1st of December.
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  Speaker 3: Plus, I love Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no. December's too late. No, no, no. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to get into the Christmas spirit much, much earlier than that.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. I'm a November person. Yes. I like November
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  Speaker 1: because it's like Thursday. You know how you get Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night fever and you sort of start celebrating the weekend
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday night?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do that tonight.
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  Speaker 1: For me, that's... That's what November is. November is let's
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  Speaker 1: start celebrating Christmas now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right. All right. Well, there we go.
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  Speaker 3: You're outnumbered.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you go and look at our socials, our
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  Speaker 2: Kiss socials, by the way, most people are agreeing with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Or women.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, because women bring the cheer and the
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  Speaker 3: Christmas spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Sonia, we'll be checking it out. Seven News Spotlight
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  Speaker 2: presenting a very special 70 Years of Seven episode. TV event,
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night, 8pm on Channel 7. She's been there for
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  Speaker 2: 20 of the 70. We'll be watching, Sonia.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys. Thanks, Sonia.