Sonia Kruger’s most embarrassing live TV moment

Sonia Kruger has opened up about an embarrassing incident that took place live on television in 2018, as her partner watched on.

In her latest column for Stellar magazine, Aussie TV stalwart Sonia Kruger opens up about some of the most embarrassing moments of her career – including a tumble she took live on television during a 2018 episode of The Voice.

“Once during a live television broadcast of The Voice Australia, I was doing a piece to camera – or a walk-and-talk, as it’s more commonly known. It’s not a particularly difficult manoeuvre; most people who can walk (and talk) generally manage it quite well,” Kruger writes.

“Anyway, midway through, I tripped over a black speaker box on the floor and flew through the air in slow motion as a thousand people in the audience gasped. My life flashed before my eyes and, as I was wearing quite a short outfit, I’m pretty sure something else also flashed before their eyes.”

Sonia Kruger takes a tumble …

But Kruger says “the television gods were on my side that night,” as a certain British pop icon – also a coach on The Voice – broke her fall.

“Instead of sprawling across the stage, I landed in Boy George’s lap,” she recalls.

The first thing Kruger did when she recovered from the spill was look out into the audience, where she caught sight of her partner, TV producer Craig McPherson.

“He rolled his eyes, shook his head, and I quickly threw to a commercial break, convinced I would never survive the shame,” she writes.

She lived to tell the tale – but Kruger suffered another live TV gaffe when accepting her Gold Logie at last year’s Logie Awards. Kruger’s late-night speech included some jokes at fellow nominee Hamish Blake’s expense that didn’t really land.

Lucky Boy George was there to catch her.

But in his own recent interview with Stellar, Blake explained that there were no hard feelings.

One of Kruger’s jokes references the fact that she and Blake shared the same manager, who she claimed was keen to cut Blake free so he could focus his efforts on her.

Speaking on Stellar’s Something To Talk About podcast, Blake said the broadcast “unfortunately” didn’t catch him laughing about the gag with fellow comedian Andy Lee and wife Zoe Foster Blake.

“The camera cut to me and I went for a joke of my own, which was pretend to be shocked, like ‘What? I can’t believe I’m hearing that my manager thinks this,’ and then laughing afterwards because I’m joking around with Andy (Lee) and my wife sitting next to me,” Blake said.

“But the camera had cut away by the time I was laughing at Sonia’s joke, so to the room it probably looks like it hasn’t gone down well.”

Blake said he and Kruger were in touch post-Logies, where he assured her he hadn’t taken offence to the jokes.

“I know what it’s like to be up there. Your mind’s racing, you’re trying to think of something to say. People are exhausted. Everyone on stage is going for gags the whole night. Some hit, some don’t. It’s not a big deal,” he said.

Read Sonia Kruger’s full column in this week’s Stellar, inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (VIC), The Sunday Mail (QLD) and Sunday Mail (SA).