Big Brother VIP host Sonia Kruger has weighed in on the show's decision to dump far-right media personality Katie Hopkins.
Speaking to Perth Now on Tuesday, Kruger, 55, praised Channel Seven's decision.
'I think the network have done the right thing. You can't have somebody come over and put our health workers at risk by flouting the rules,' she said.
Exit: Big Brother VIP host Sonia Kruger (right) has weighed in on the show's decision to dump far-right media personality Katie Hopkins (left). Speaking to Perth Now on Tuesday, Kruger, 55, praised Channel Seven's decision
Kruger went on to claim that Hopkins did not take a quarantine spot from Australians trapped abroad and desperate to get home while facing restrictive arrival caps.
'I know for a fact that Seven and Endemol Shine are on top of that exemption process,' the TV host insisted.
'Those international arrivals don't take the place of stranded Aussies trying to return home. They are above the caps.'
Right: 'I think the network have done the right thing. You can't have somebody come over and put our health workers at risk by flouting the rules,' Sonia said. Kruger went on to claim that Hopkins did not take a quarantine spot from Australians trapped abroad
The far-right provocateur was ditched from the show on Sunday and deported from Australia on Monday, after 'joking' that she was opening her door to hotel staff naked and maskless, while undergoing 14-day mandatory hotel quarantine in Sydney.
Hopkins tried to claim her humiliating deportation from Australia as a victory, telling her supporters she will never be 'silenced' after being sent back to the UK.
The reality star and anti-lockdown campaigner, 46, shared a selfie to Instagram at about 5am Tuesday (AEST), and captioned it: 'See you in the morning, my lovelies.
'You may 'deport' the Hopkins, but you cannot silence the truth. We will fight to TAKE BACK our freedoms.'
Bitter: Far-right provocateur Hopkins has tried to claim her humiliating deportation from Australia as a victory, telling her supporters on Instagram she will never be 'silenced' after being sent back to the UK for joking about breaching hotel quarantine in Sydney
Hours earlier she'd been deported from Australia after 'joking' about breaching hotel quarantine rules and calling Covid lockdowns the 'greatest hoax in human history'.
The controversial British social commentator boarded a Singapore Airlines flight from Sydney at 3pm on Monday after her 'critical skills' visa was torn up by the Federal Government and she was fined $1,000 (£536) for answering the door of her room in quarantine naked and without a face mask in violation of quarantine rules.
Australia has enforced strict border closures since the start of the pandemic, with tickets into the country rationed and all arrivals forced to undergo mandatory 14-day quarantine in their city of arrival along with repeat testing before being allowed in.
Hopkins had flown in to Australia last week and was placed into 14-day isolation in Sydney ahead of an appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.
Deported: The controversial British commentator, 46, boarded a Singapore Airlines flight from Sydney at 3pm on Monday
Controversial: Hopkins did not wear her mask properly as she went though security at Sydney Airport
Hopkins had flown in to Australia last week to appear on Celebrity Big Brother after finishing her mandatory 14-day quarantine. She is pictured leaving the country
But during her stay in a hotel room, she shared an Instagram Live video in which she joked about deliberately breaking Covid rules by opening her door naked and mask-free to the workers who deliver her food.
'The police officer who checked me in told me when they knock on my door I have to wait 30 seconds until I can open the door,' she said while breaking out into hysterics.
Hopkins said she was 'lying in wait' to 'spring [the door] open and frighten the s*** out of them and do it naked with no face mask.'
After the comments sparked huge backlash, Channel Seven dropped Hopkins from the show and her visa was cancelled.
Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said on Monday morning: 'I hadn't heard of her before and I don't want to hear about her ever again.
'I thought it was just shameful, the fact that she was out there boasting about breaching quarantine was just appalling,' she told the ABC.
'It was a slap in the face for all those Australians who are currently in lockdown and it's just unacceptable behaviour.'
Some 12 million Australians in Victoria and Greater Sydney are in lockdown over an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant which began on June 16.
Under one of the toughest Covid border policies in the world, Australia has banned tourists and is only allowing 3,035 people a week to enter the country via 14-day hotel quarantine, leaving 40,000 Aussies stranded overseas.
But foreigners with critical skills visas are not always included in the cap because they are deemed to bring 'economic benefit' to the country.
'There are very well established processes and procedures for people to enter this country and many decisions are made on the basis of economic benefit,' Ms Andrews said.
Critical skills visas are for sectors
