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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. Kyle is also a judge on Australian Idol
CareerHis 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 Hot30 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 the judges on 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 2008 Kyle and Jackie O were the new hosts of Big Brother Australia 2008 in an attempt to boost the shows flagging ratings and replacing Gretel Killeen. However Channel 10 does not plan to run the Big Brother show in 2009.[4] ControversiesIn July 2004, Sandilands and co-host Jackie O were involved in a verbal argument with the band Frenzal Rhomb 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.[5] 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.[6] 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."[7] He has since been banned by Austereo management from mentioning Connolly on air. 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'.[8] 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".[9] 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.[10] On 12th September 2008, Sandilands and Co-Host Jackie O were involved in an on air verbal argument with animal lover, Ernie Dingo. From the TodayFM website, many fan's have expressed their opinions claiming that Dingo was out of line calling Sandiland's a "Wanker" on air (however, all opinions critical of Sandilands have been removed from the site). As an Australian Idol judgeIn October 2005, Sandilands referred to the eventual Australian Idol 2005 winner Kate DeAraugo's arms as "tuckshop lady arms".[11] In September 2006, Sandilands told 17 year old Australian Idol contestant Jessica Mauboy to lose her "jelly belly".[12] 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.[13] Appearance on Big BrotherOn 14 July 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.[14] 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.[15] Sandilands was host, with Jackie O, of the Big Brother evictions shows for the 2008 season. On 1 June 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. The ratings for the launch of the 2008 series were the lowest in the shows history, and Channel 10 ultimately confirmed the series would not continue past the current season.[16] Enough Rope interviewOn 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".[17] 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.[18] Personal lifeSandilands had a difficult upbringing and left home at the age of 17.[19] Sandilands married pop singer Tamara Jaber on 26 September 2008. He employs his wife's sister, Jeumana Jaber, as his personal assistant. He lives with Tamara, her bandmates, Jeumana and his personal security guard and driver Max Lea in his six-bedroom house[20] at Woolwich, on Sydneys lower-north shore.[19] 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".[20] He also suffers from migraines and has a doctor on his staff to administer treatments (including injections) whenever a migraine strikes.
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