Sonia Kruger was secretly admitted to hospital 

Sonia Kruger has opened up about being hospitalised for double pneumonia earlier this year.

During an appearance on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Thursday, Sonia said that she thought she’d contracted COVID-19 at the time before being diagnosed. 

‘I was struggling to breathe,’ the 55-year-old said, before confirming that she then ‘ended up in hospital for a week’.

The Big Brother host said that she was able to keep the health scare out of the media simply by not posting about it on Instagram. 

This isn’t the first time that Sonia has opened up about her secret hospitalisation. 

The blonde beauty spoke about it during an appearance on The Morning Show last week, telling hosts Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies that she suspected that it may have been the flu at first.

‘I had gotten sicker and sicker, thought it was the flu and I had COVID test after COVID test,’ she said.

‘It ended up being a really rare form of pneumonia and the specialist who did my scan said “your lungs actually look like a COVID patient’s lungs”.

‘I was actually in hospital on oxygen for a week and it was a bit touch and go as to whether I’d actually be able to go to Queensland to do Holey Moley.’

She added: ‘But luckily I sort of came good at the eleventh hour and off I went.’

Sonia has a string of projects coming out on Channel Seven over the next few months.

She’ll next be seen hosting the golfing reality series, Holey Moley.

In 2021, she’ll be back hosting Big Brother and will also front the new season of The Voice.