Kyle Sandilands
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| Kyle Sandilands | |
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| Born | 10 June 1971 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Show | The Kyle and Jackie O Show The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power |
| Station(s) | 2Day FM |
| Style | Breakfast Show Host, |
| Country | Australia |
| Website | The Official Kyle Sandilands MySpace |
Kyle Sandilands (born 10 June 1971) is an Australian radio host, best known for hosting with Jackie O Australia's Biggest Interactive Chart Show The Hot Hits (Australia-wide), the weekday morning radio program The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Sydney radio station 2Day FM and The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power which airs on selected Today Network stations around the country.
His first foray into radio was a stint at a Townsville radio station after he lied on his résumé about working with Triple M, although his aunt has said he hung around doing work experience until they took pity on him[1]. Ironically, he went on to work for Triple M firstly as part of the launch in Perth with Paul "Campo" Campion and then in Brisbane. After switching to Triple M Brisbane's Austereo stablemate B105 FM, 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 Australia 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. He continues to be a judge on the show now heading into its sixth season.
In September 2006, Sandilands was named the most hated Australian identity in a Zoo Weekly article.[2]
On 14 October 2006 Sandilands and Jackie O won "Best On-Air Team" at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards.[3]
In late 2007, Kyle and Jackie O were confirmed by Network Ten as the new hosts of Big Brother Australia 2008, replacing Gretel Killeen.
On Tuesday 3 June 2008 it was revealed that Kyle had been struck down with bronchitis. Since then Kyle's bronchitis has developed into pneumonia.
Kyle has been forced to step down from radio, Big Brother and Australian Idol. Hamish & Andy are filling in for him on his breakfast radio show for 2Day FM, Labrat is filling in for him on the Austereo Network's The Hot Hits, Mike Goldman is filling in for him on Big Brother and a mystery judge is taking over for him on Australian Idol.
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[edit] Controversy
[edit] Radio career
In July 2004, Sandilands 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 and then attempted to speak with the audience during the band's already dramatically reduced set time. Frenzal Rhomb played music over Jackie O so she could not be heard on stage. During an on-air broadcast, Sandilands then threatened Frenzal Rhomb's label to have Frenzal Rhomb's songs banned from Austereo radio stations,[4] 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 the lead singer of Frenzal Rhomb, Jason Whalley, 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 Sandilands 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, Sandilands won a defamation lawsuit, which ruled that the program had defamed the radio host.[5]
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."[6] He has since been banned by Austereo management from mentioning Connolly on air.
In December 2006, Sandilands referred to former Nightline host Jim Waley as being "a paedophile". Sandilands apologised to Waley the following day.
In March 2007, Sandilands referred on-air to a police officer who had issued him a speeding ticket as an arsehole and to the highway patrol as scum. This was reported on the Australian media watchdog television show Media Watch as 'Kyle Bile'.[7]
On 2 July 2007, Sandilands and Jackie O, got involved in a on-air clash with Australian music host legend, Molly Meldrum, who referred to Sandilands as "arrogant", "fat" and "talentless".[8]
Sandilands and co-host Jackie O have also given a serve to other Australian Idol judges (Mark Holden, Marcia Hines and Ian 'Dicko' Dickson) about how they picked on Idol 2007 contestant, Tarisai Vushe. They also argued the system of how Tarisai's 'dummy spit' was shown on television while other finalist, Matt Corby's 'dummy spit' was not mentioned on the program.
On 20 August 2007, Sandilands made on-air comments stating that smoking was not as harmful to people as many institutions would lead people to believe and that the statistics presented by these institutions are falsified. These comments led to the Cancer Institute of New South Wales pulling their "13-QUIT" advertisements off the network.[9]
[edit] As an Australian Idol Judge
In October 2005, Sandilands referred to the eventual Australian Idol 2005 winner Kate DeAraugo's arms as "tuckshop lady arms".[10]
In September 2006, Sandilands told 17 year old Australian Idol contestant Jessica Mauboy to lose her "jelly belly".[11]
In October 2006, Sandilands 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. Sandilands insisted that he meant no disrespect to those suffering from Down Syndrome.[12]
[edit] Appearance on Big Brother
On July 14, 2007, two weeks before the season finale, Sandilands appeared on the 2007 season of Big Brother.
In an attempt to boost poor ratings and to promote the 2007 season of Australian Idol, Sandilands entered the Gold Coast compound and was due to conduct his radio program in house on the Monday morning.[13] However, after a heated verbal exchange with "Big Brother", Sandilands required anti-nausea injections for migraines and began vomiting every 30 minutes. He left the house soon after.[14]
Sandilands is host, with Jackie O, of the Big Brother evicitons shows for the 2008 season. On June 1, 2008, Sandilands was absent from the eviction show, due to a chest infection, so Mike Goldman filled in. Sandilands was absent again the following week, June 8, again reportedly due to illness, and again Goldman filled in.
[edit] Enough Rope Interview
On 22 August 2007, he was interviewed by Andrew Denton for ABC's Enough Rope in which he said he wanted to "punch Dave Hughes in the throat" next time he sees him. This was in response to Dave Hughes referring to Sandilands as a "dickhead".[15] Sandilands was left in a "hostile state" from the questions relating to his need to take personal responsibility for the results of his actions on air.[16]
[edit] Personal Life
Sandilands had a difficult upbringing and left home at the age of 17.[17] He is engaged to pop singer Tamara Jaber while he employs her sister, Jeumana Jaber, as his personal assistant. He lives with Tamara, her bandmates, Jeumana and his personal security guard & driver Max Lea in his six-bedroom house[18] at Woolwich, on Sydneys lower-north shore.[17] Sandilands has stated that he drinks up to 30 lattes a day, consumes up to 8 litres of 'Coca-Cola' day and "eats plenty of chocolate".[18] He also suffers from migraines and has a doctor on his staff to administer treatments (including injections) whenever a migraine strikes.
[The staff's] whole life is migraine prevention. I get bad migraines. I vomit like an alien, my eyes are bloodshot and I sweat like an animal so their job is to make sure I don't get them.[18]
- -Kyle Sandilands, in reference to his migraines.
[edit] References
- ^ Javes, Sue. "Shock waves", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2005-04-18. Retrieved on 2007-08-23.
- ^ "Who we love to hate", The Age, 2006-09-11. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- ^ Christodoulou, Mario. "Kyle and Jackie O reveal their chemistry", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2006-10-15. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- ^ Media Watch. ABC TV. 2004-08-02. No. 2004:26. Transcript.
- ^ "Sandilands defamed by Seven: jury", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2006-04-11. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- ^ Media Watch. ABC TV. 2006-08-14. No. 2006:27. Transcript.
- ^ Media Watch. ABC TV. 2007-03-19. No. 2007:04. Transcript.
- ^ "Molly Meldrum in radio outburst", The Daily Telegraph, 2007-07-03. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- ^ Media Watch. ABC TV. 2007-08-20. No. 2007:26. Transcript.
- ^ Ford, Elaine. "Tanning tears fuel Idol fears", ABC News, 2005-10-23. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- ^ Read, Genevieve. "Look who's talking", The Mercury, 2006-09-22. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- ^ "Idol judge blasted over 'mong' slur", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2006-10-03. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- ^ "Kyle Sandilands BB entry fury", The Daily Telegraph, 2007-07-13. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- ^ "Kyle's Big Brother meltdown", The Daily Telegraph, 2007-07-16. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- ^ "'Sorry you're a dickhead, Kyle'", 2007-08-24. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ "Denton puts Sandilands on the ropes", 2007-08-22. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ a b Javes, Sue. "Shock waves", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2005-04-18. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
- ^ a b c Amanda Dunn. "Work Addicts", Sun Herald (Sunday Life Liftout), 2008-04-06, p. 12.
[edit] External links
- The Kyle and Jackie O Show
- The Hot Hits With Kyle and Jackie O
- Article reporting June 2005 radio survey
- Official Kyle Sandilands MySpace
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| NAME | Sandilands, Kyle |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Australian radio and television personality |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 10 June 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
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