Kyle Sandilands Has Been Sacked And His Show Cancelled
Image: Kyle Sandilands has had his $100 million contract terminated.
Notorious shock-jock Kyle Sandilands has had his 10 year contract worth $100 million terminated by employers ARN Media. Aww.
ARN Media said in a statement on Wednesday it had issued a notice of termination of contract to Sandilands and his company Quasar Media, thanks to a dispute that began with an on-air argument last month between Sandilands and his co-host Jackie 鈥極鈥� Henderson.
鈥淎s a result, the Kyle and Jackie O show will no longer be presented,鈥� the statement sent to the ASX said.
Two weeks ago, ARN聽 provided written notice to Sandilands 鈥渟tating that it considered Mr Sandilands鈥� behaviour during the broadcast of 20 February 2026 to constitute serious misconduct and a breach of ARN鈥檚 services agreement with Quasar Media, under which Mr Sandilands presents the Kyle and Jackie O show. Sandilands was given 14 days to remedy the breach.
In a statement, Kyle Sandilands has said that he doesn’t “accept” the termination.
鈥淢y lawyers told them last week this would be invalid. And guess what? It is.”
The move comes after an argument on February 20, where Sandilands accused Henderson of being 鈥渙ff with the fairies鈥�, and criticised her interest in astrology, claiming they made her 鈥渁lmost unworkable鈥�, and claimed her fixation on astrology charts made her sound like a 鈥渄rug addict鈥�. This all happened while the pair was looking at the astrological birth chart of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The seven-minute-long exchange was described as an 鈥渁ttack鈥� by Henderson.
鈥淟et me tell you what actually happened here,” Sandilands says in his statement. “Jackie and I had a blue on air. That鈥檚 it. The kind of thing we鈥檝e done a hundred times in 25 years. And ARN took the situation and decided to try and burn the place down.”
The presenter says he was willing to work with ARN towards a resolution, but believes he was stonewalled at every opportunity since the incident.
鈥淭hey weren鈥檛 interested. They didn鈥檛 want to fix this. They thought they saw a chance to get out of the contract they signed with me a year ago, and they ran with it.
ARN knew exactly what they were getting when they signed my deal. They鈥檝e worked with me for over a decade.”
A 27 year partnership over
Kyle and Jackie O have been a radio duo for 27 years, moving to breakfast in 2005 and then to KIIS in 2014. They have been under contract in a lucrative $200 million, 10-year deal that was set to run until December 2034.
Their partnership has been defined by controversies, including the duo being taken off the air in 2009聽 when they were found to have breached guidelines during a聽聽where Sandilands asked a teenager who had been raped about her sexual experience.聽 Last year, the聽聽with action to force the pair to rein in their 鈥渧ulgar, sexually explicit and deeply offensive鈥� content.
More recently they聽聽over on-air comments made during the trial of triple-murderer聽Erin Patterson.
Sandilands in particular has a history of being called out for 鈥渉omophobic鈥� comments, such as disparaging聽comments about gay men and 鈥渟ticky floors鈥�, introducing聽their gay newsreader Brooklyn聽as a 鈥渕assive homo鈥� who 鈥渦sed to be a real gay whore鈥�, and聽breaking radio decency standards聽by calling聽Mpox聽鈥渁 big gay disease鈥�.
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