Kyle Sandilands

Kyle Sandilands
Career
Show	The Kyle and Jackie O Show The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power
Station	2Day FM
Style	Breakfast Show Host
Country	Australia
Website	The Official Kyle Sandilands MySpace

Kyle Sandilands (born 10 June 1971 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a talentless hack and an Australian radio host, best known for hosting with Jackie O the weekday morning radio program The Kyle and Jackie O Show and The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power. Both air on Sydney radio station 2Day FM.

After a difficult upbringing and leaving home at the age of 17, his first foray into radio was a stint at a Townsville radio station after he lied on his resumé about working with Triple M. Ironically, he went on to work for Triple M firstly as part of the successful relaunch in Perth with Paul "Campo" Campion and then in Brisbane. After switching to Triple M Brisbane's Austereo stablemate B105, Sandilands moved to Sydney in 1999, replacing Ugly Phil on the Hot 30 Countdown. Ugly Phil had recently divorced his wife Jackie O and left the country for the United Kingdom.

In 2001, Sandilands joined pop singer Joanne on a trip to Bali to shoot her video for her hit single "So Damn Fine".

In 2005, he replaced Ian "Dicko" Dickson as one of Network Ten's Australian Idol judges, for its third series. He continued to be a judge in the 2006 series of the show.

In September 2006, Sandilands was named the most hated Australian identity in a Zoo Weekly article.

On 14 October 2006 Sandilands and Jackie O won "Best On-Air Team" at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards. Their show, "The Kyle & Jackie O Show"

Never far from controversy, Sandilands is widely considered arrogant by many Australians.

He is engaged to marry pop singer Tamara Jaber. He lives with her in Woolwich.

Controversy

As a Disc Jockey

In July 2004 Kyle and co-host Jackie O were involved in a verbal argument with the band Frenzal Rhomb ( hosts on the Triple J radio station) over an incident which occurred at a music festival in Darwin. Jackie O reportedly arrived to MC the concert nine hours late. Offended, Frenzal Rhomb played music over Jackie O so she could not be heard on stage. During an on-air broadcast, Kyle then threatened Frenzal Rhomb's label to have Frenzal Rhomb's songs banned from Austereo radio stations, as well as condoning threats of physical violence made by members of Jackie O's security. During the on-air broadcast Sandiland's managed to speak with one of the band members of Frenzal Rhomb, who calmly retorted to Sandilands that Austereo didn't play their music anyway, and while defending their on-stage actions, did offer an apology to Jackie O. Sandilands however seemed to ignore this, and continued to berate Frenzal Rhomb on-air after hanging up on the phone call.

In July and August 2005 Kyle was accused of "cooking the charts" by playing his partner Tamara Jaber's latest song on the radio. The allegations stemmed from current affairs program Today Tonight. In 2006 Kyle won a defamation lawsuit, which ruled that the program had defamed the radio host.

On 4 August 2006, Sandilands used his radio program to call Fiona Connolly, a columnist from Sydney's Daily Telegraph, "fat" and a "liar". She was 6 months' pregnant at the time. After calling her the "chick that I hate at Sydney Confidential" he also stated he "would hire a private investigator to film her and her family then I'm going to put it on a website and I'm going to show everyone what members of her family do that are dodgy." He has since been banned by Austereo management from mentioning Connolly on air.

As an Australian Idol Judge

In October 2005 Kyle referred to the eventual Australian Idol 2005 winner Kate DeAraugo's arms as "tuckshop lady arms" .

In August 2006 he said to a male contestant, Dean Geyer, who admitted he was a virgin, "You'll never be the Australian Idol and you'll always be a virgin." .

In September 2006 Kyle told 17 year old Australian Idol contestant Jessica Mauboy to lose her "jelly belly".

In October 2006 Kyle referred to Australian Idol contestant Bobby Flynn as a "mong" - which is a derogatory slang for the now-dated term mongoloid, referring to people suffering from Down syndrome. Kyle insisted that he meant no disrespect to those suffering from Down Syndrome, however, more than one current affairs show in Australia slammed him for his remarks.

In March 2007 Kyle referred on-air to a police officer who had issued him a speeding ticket as an 'arsehole' and to the entire police force as 'scum'. This was reported on the Australian media watchdog television show 'Media Watch' as 'Kyle Bile'..

References

• "Kyle and Jackie O win "Best On-Air Team Award" Sydney Morning Herald, 15/10/2006, Retrieved 15th October
• "Profile of Kyle Sandliands" Sydney Morning Herald, 18/04/2005, Retrieved 4th October 2006
• "Media Watch transcript of Kyle/Jackie O/Frenzal Rhomb argument" Media Watch 02/08/2004, retrieved 4th October 2006.
• "Sandilands wins defamation lawsuit" Sydney Morning Herald 11/04/2006, retrieved 4th October 2006.
• "Tanning tears fuel idol fears" by Elaine Ford, ABC, 23/10/2005, retrieved 4th October 2006.
• "Look Who's Talking" The Mercury, 26/11/2006, retrieved 4th October 2006.
• "Idol judge blasted over 'mong' slur" Sydney Morning Herald, 03/10/2006, retrieved 4th October 2006.
• "Who we love to hate" The Age, 11/09/2006, retrieved 9th October 2006.

External links

• The Kyle and Jackie O Show
• Profile article on Kyle Sandilands
• Article reporting June 2005 radio survey
• Article on radio stunts which have backfired, including several by Sandilands
• Kyle Sandilands at IMDb
• WHO.com Australian Idol blog