Kyle Sandilands has returned to his morning radio show after an on-air meltdown on Wednesday, apologising to his co-host while defending his stance.
“Hello Kyle,” co-host Jackie O greeted him carefully at the start of Thursday’s show. “Good to have you back. How are you feeling today?”
“Feeling pretty good, yeah … sort of,” a sheepish Sandilands responded.
“Are you OK over there? You look like you’re going to cry,” Jackie told him.
“Oh, it’s a bit embarrassing, yesterday’s carry-on,” he admitted.
“I felt very justified, but I did get my back up a bit – but that happens among friends.”
Kyle revealed that following his unhinged on-air tirade, in which he berated newsreader Brooklyn Ross for running the Gladys Berejiklian/Scott Morrison leaked texts story, that he had been contacted by reporters for a comment on his outburst.
He admitted that the media coverage of his tantrum made him “look stupid”, but went on to defend his stance on what news the radio show runs.
“I did notice a few people comment, ‘what right does Kyle have to decide what the news is?’,” he said.
“Well, every right, because I run the show. I’m not an employee… I don’t work for anyone.”
The radio shock jock admitted that he felt “out of my mind” with anger when he left the KIIS building after walking off the live radio broadcast.
“I was so angry when I was leaving here, I did a huge burnout out the driveway, it was wet so the whole car was going sideways… and I didn’t care if I died,” Sandilands joked.
“I was out of my mind.”
Kyle also apologised to Jackie O for calling her an “idiot” during his rant, while admitting he didn’t realise how long it had gone for.
“I was reading an article yesterday, and it said I went on a 12-minute meltdown. Was it 12 minutes? Of me continually screaming and carrying on?” Sandilands asked his co-hosts.
The on-air meltdown was prompted after Kyle deemed the politicians’ text leaking scandal not newsworthy for their show, claiming it was “over nothing”.
“This is the biggest news in Australia, and it’s all over nothing. So what if the ex-Premier called the prime minister a horrible, horrible person? I’ve called everyone here an effing C in text messages. I wouldn’t be surprised if Gladys was just pacifying whatever loser Minister she was talking to,” Sandilands began.
“This is not real news. Don’t make up fictitious bulls**t drama over nothing.”
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