The Kyle and Jackie O show is under fire after calling two different groups of Australian podcasters “the hot girls at Shameless and the ugly girls from Outspoken“.
The offensive incident began when Kyle from the KIIS FM show spoke about getting intimate with his fiance before he goes out on the town so that his “balls are empty” and he isn’t inclined to cheat. The women at Shameless podcast called out the sentiment on their own podcast.
Bruno then took aim at the podcasters during a radio segment on The Kyle and Jackie O show, poking fun at the podcast. “A while ago they [the Shameless women] did a list,” he said. “And, you know how I feel about people who do lists that aren’t me. [I’m the] list king.” The producer revealed that said list was ranking chocolate and also mentioned that the women are “woke”.
“Bruno hates us, producer Bruno from Kyle and Jackie O did a seven minute segment on us. And hates us. Because we stole his list idea and apparently ranked chocolates, which we just never did and now I’m very confused,” said one of the Shameless hosts.
After hearing the segment, Bruno clarified that it was actually a different podcast that did the ‘chocolate list’.
“I got the entirely wrong podcast, the one that did this list thing, they were called the ‘Outspoken‘ podcast, which is totally different”.
Kyle and Jackie O suggested that Bruno apologise to the podcasters, which he did – while objectifying both groups of women.
“I mean, I guess I probably owe them an apology… Sorry about that,” Bruno began. Kyle then asked the producer if he “hates” the woman behind Shameless.
“No, I like them. They’re hot. They’re good. I want to be friends with them,” Bruno replied. Jackie O then questioned whether Bruno only liked them because they’re “hot”, to which Kyle responded, “Of course, nobody likes a couple of donkeys.”
Bruno added, “I’ll be honest, they’re very attractive. But that’s not the reason I like them, just when I looked at their videos I was like, “ooh I like that”.
He continued, “So I feel bad, and I’m sorry. I hope we can be friends now. I nearly see it as like we’ve been through something together and now we’re closer. So, I kind of see that we’ll probably go out together for drinks and we’ll probably be friends. And this new podcast, the Outspoken podcast…”.
“I’m sorry about that, this whole Shameless-gate thing should never have happened. I just wasted everyone’s time.”
“Yeah Shameless, sorry for wasting everyone’s time I’m sorry to the hot girls at Shameless and the ugly girls from Outspoken better watch yourselves because when the big dog comes barking”.
Shortly after the segment aired, the Shameless podcast took to their Instagram to discuss the apology from The Kyle and Jackie O Show, but didn’t speak about the degrading comments made about the Outspoken podcasters.
“I also, of course, listened to our apology on Kyle and Jackie O, don’t know if you guys heard it, it was an interesting apology as far as apologies go. But we got it, so thank you for the extra minutes on the biggest radio show in the world, Kyle and Jackie O,” they said on their podcast.
The podcasters over at Outspoken then called out the Shameless podcasters for not bringing up the degrading comments made during the segment.
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“Very disappointing on both fronts. Sad to hear this was Shameless’ response to the segment,” Outspoken wrote on their Instagram.
Today, Shameless has responded by apologising to Outspoken and calling out Bruno and The Kyle and Jackie O Show over their misogynistic comments.
“Two groups of women – both ourselves and Outspoken – were objectified on live radio,” Shameless podcast wrote in a lengthy statement.
They continued, “It tuned out that after discussing Shameless, the women behind Outspoken were also objectified by Bruno. To hear how men talk about how you look on-air is humiliating, and we are completely blown away by how gross Bruno was. What Bruno said about Sophie, Amy and Kate was sexist and degrading.”
“What we will never do, though, is be sucked into some kind of ‘feuding women’ narrative… These were comments made by a man, about two sets of women, to hundreds of thousands of people.”
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“Sexualising a woman in her workplace is never okay, regardless, of whether the comments you make are positive or negative. The fact that we even need to say this in 2022 is maddening”.
Between Outspoken and Shameless, the podcasters have over 215,000 followers on Instagram. These fans have spoken out against The Kyle and Jackie O Show in the IG comments section, with some calling for the show to be pulled off air.
“I can’t with these vile humans anymore. I can’t. They need to be pulled off the air. I just lost my shit in my IG stories about the stunt they pulled on the two MAFS girls this morning. I’m absolutely raging,” former MAFS participant Clare Verral wrote.
Australian feminist writer and broadcaster Clementine Ford added, “The way Jackie O titters along at everything. She just LOVES being allowed to eat the little crumbs at the end of the Big Boy table.”
Listen to the Shameless podcast here and the Outspoken podcast here.
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