Sonia Kruger will keep filling role of Big Mother Sonia Kruger says she will probably only take three months off work after the birth of her daughter. IF anyone can cope with the demands of caring for a baby when their biological clock is well past the bewitching hour, it would have to be Sonia Kruger. The TV host and her partner, Craig McPherson are 26 weeks into a pregnancy thanks to a donated egg from one of her good friends. A very pregnant Sonia Kruger hosts Big Brother. Kruger made it clear right from the start that as a 49-year-old woman, the only way it could happen for her was through someone else's egg and IVF treatment. She doesn't believe in subscribing to the fairytale that late in life pregnancies happen naturally and full kudos to her. Apart from McPherson's six children from an earlier relationship, it could be argued Kruger is already a mum. Big Brother contestant Priya, 27, Adelaide. As the warm and frequently acerbic host of Big Brother, she acts as a kind of den mother to a bunch of sometimes feral and needy, young housemates. She is the last person they see before they go in and the first they encounter after they have been evicted. No wonder they frequently cling to her like glittery barnacles. Unfortunately they might need some TLC this season because BB has been tanking in the ratings, pulling in only 620,000 viewers some nights. Without big personalities like last year's Machiavellian winner, Tim Dormer and the endearingly original Ben Zabel, it hasn't exactly become addictive viewing with some commentators even speculating that the Big Brother house will be demolished once and for all. "You look at the raw figure and it seems a little bit scary," Kruger says. But then you look at the demographics and it is still winning with its target audience. I love to win. We don't go out there to become second but I take comfort from the way that the ratings are reported in the US, which is purely based on the demographic. So I think it's taking us a little time to catch up to that way of thinking. We meet at Channel 9 where Kruger has just stepped off the set of Mornings, the show she co-hosts with David Campbell and she certainly looks like a winner today. She's dressed in a crisp black peplum top and a matching black skirt with flat Valentino sandals. Kruger has never been the type to embrace a pregnancy smock and probably never will. In fact, she can thank a particularly dedicated photographer on the Gold Coast for ensuring that she always looks her best. Big Brother contestant Skye, 20, Gold Coast. "That pap has been doing my head in," she laughs, "because he seems intent on getting the most unflattering pictures of me. It makes you put a bit more effort in when you are going out in public. Last August, Kruger famously took on the acting editor of New Idea magazine, Louisa Hatfield (reportedly her old TV foe), for publishing a photo of her sunburnt face and questioning what had happened to it. Kruger took to her social media account: "50k for this pic. What happened to my face? I went out in the sun. Story made up. Great use of Seven shareholders money ... said no one ever. Oops. It's not the first time a celebrity has taken on a tabloid magazine editor but it's rarely done with so much biting sarcasm. "Sometimes I do go off piste," Kruger acknowledges. During a recent episode of Big Brother, she had been sitting in her dressing room tuning into the housemates" conversation before the show went to air when she suddenly heard herself being discussed. Ryan Ginns, a 26-year-old graphic designer, said David Hodis, 31, a radiographer, was crushing on her. "He said, "yeah Dave loves Sonia. He has this massive crush on her but personally I don't get it. So when we crossed to the house, Ryan made some kind of remark about frozen chicken. I said, "yes some of the girls think it's funny but personally I don't get it." I really wanted to mess with his head," she admits. I just wanted to let him know that I knew what he had said. No wonder that when he went off camera, his ears were bright red. By her own admission, Kruger is addicted to hosting Big Brother. Big Brother contestant Aisha. It's like a soap opera. Right now it's all about the relationship between Cat (Rice) and Lawson (Reeves), who is cheating on his girlfriend of three years, Candice Leeder," she says. It's the most talked about relationship that has been going on in the house. Kruger is determined to return to her hosting role on Big Brother when her daughter is seven-months-old and will just fly up to Queensland with the baby. Luckily her mother lives just five minutes away from Dreamworld and the Big Brother set. Despite waiting for so long to become pregnant, Kruger doesn't want to submerge herself in her baby forever. She still wants to have a television career and will probably only take three months off. Sonia Kruger has always taken a unique, fearless approach to everything that she has done and there is no reason that it will stop when she becomes a mother. At the age of 49, she is rewriting the rule books. Do she and Craig have a name for their daughter yet? "No I always like to have a deadline," she says. This means that no decision will be made until the moment she is born. Originally published as Sonia will keep filling role of Big Mother