Kyle Sandilands’ longtime manager and close friend Bruno Bouchet has revealed new details about the radio star’s upcoming project.
Bouchet confirmed Kyle Sandilands Live will launch on Monday, August 10 through Sandilands’ upcoming app.
Appearing on the Game Changers Radio podcast, Bouchet said the show would combine live audio and video.
“It’s a live breakfast show on Kyle’s very own platform, where you get the audio and the video, it’s uncensored, it’s ad-free,” he explained.
“Instead of taking traditional calls like you would through mobiles and landlines, it’s all video calls and I think it’s going to be a fair bit of fun.”
The show will also feature music and a newsreader, with an annual subscription costing $99.
It will follow the launch of a four-part docuseries, At Home with Kyle, with the first episode expected in late July.
Bouchet said there was still plenty of work to do before Sandilands’ return.
“Creating this platform and getting it all together, we’ve got some really good people to help us build it, so it’s not just me buying a video camera and a tripod and being like ‘all right Kyle, let it rip!’ It’s a bit more than that,” Bouchet said.
He remained tight-lipped about the show’s first episode but said he hoped it would be “as crazy and outrageous as possible”.
“I can’t let the cat out of the bag about who the newsreader is going to be – a fantastic female talent who I’m so pumped for her and Kyle to be riffing and do the show together,” he said.
“I think the chemistry is just off the charts between the two of them.”
Bouchet said Sandilands was also keen to address “everything that has happened since February 20”, referring to his explosive on-air disagreement with former co-host Jackie O Henderson.
The fallout ultimately brought The Kyle and Jackie O Show to an end, with Sandilands later settling with former employer ARN for $12 million over the termination of his reported $100 million contract.
Bouchet, who has worked closely with Sandilands for years, said he had watched the broadcaster go through “every emotion” over the past four months.
“To his credit he kept it together very well. He’s very much a facts guy, so he enjoyed talking to lawyers because they’re all very matter-of-fact, and he was great throughout this whole period,” he said.
“Some days better than others, but he was OK. More than anything he started to get bored and restless, understandably.”
Bouchet said Sandilands had emerged from the experience as a more “three-dimensional” person.
“I think you’ll see that there’s an evolution of Kyle as a broadcaster, as a personality,” he said.
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