Kyle Sandilands blasts Channel 9 over its treatment of Karl Stefanovic
Kyle Sandilands has put Channel 9 on blast after the way they treated Karl Stefanovic, as he says the TV star should be reinstated as the Today show co-host immediately.
Speaking to news.com.au shortly after he was interviewed by Stefanovic in stage at the recent Radio Alive conference in Brisbane, the shock jock didn’t hold back when asked for his opinion on the struggling Today show.
“If I was running Channel 9 I would immediately add Karl to Georgie (Gardner) and Deb (Knight),” said the KIIS FM star.
“I think Georgie and Deb are great, but they’ve got all these try-hard dudes in there … if they put Karl back in there as the main host with those two female co-anchors, that thing would kick a**e, everyone knows it!
“It’s as if they (Channel 9 executives) won’t do it because they’ll look stupid,” said Sandilands. “But you don’t need to be a great programmer to realise that if you put Karl back, everything is fixed.
“F**k knows why it’s not done. It should be done right now.”
Stefanovic was sacked from the Today show in December last year while he was on his honeymoon with Jasmine Yarbrough.
The Channel 9 star opened up about his axing during a post-Logies event in July, saying: “It wasn’t a great surprise to me – in fact it was a relief in many ways – that I was taken off the Today show. Because I just wasn’t at my best and you can’t be doing that show unless you’re at the top of your game.
“You’ve got to be sharp, you’ve got to be witty, you’ve got to be funny. You’ve got to see the angles, and to be honest, at the end of last year I wasn’t seeing much,” he said.
But Sandilands disagrees, saying Stefanovic, whom he considers a “solid friend”, should have been sacked in the first place.
“It was just a f**king stupid decision,” he told news.com.au. “I believe they (Channel 9 executives) all thought, ‘Women don’t like Karl because him and his wife (Cassandra Thorburn) didn’t last.’ That’s f**king bulls**it.
“it’s just not reality,” said Sandilands. “Every chick I know, from 20 year old’s to my mums age, all think Karl is funny and sexy and witty and amazing.”