Kyle Sandilands has revealed that he recently had a blow-up with fellow Australian Idol judge Harry Connick Jnr over pronouns.

The shock jock explained during an appearance on KIIS FM’s Will and Woody show that he and Connick Jnr had a ‘blow up’ that resulted in them not talking to one another.

“I didn’t mind him … I don’t feel he got the vibe of me,” Sandilands said of when they first met.

“Personally, I don’t think he gelled with me. If someone doesn’t like you, and you feel it, you just don’t like them automatically,” he added.

Sandilands explained that tensions came to a head with he mistakenly told a reported that Connick Jnr was concerned about pronouns.

“Yes, we had a blow up … It wasn’t a Michael Clarke, Karl Stefanovic situation,” he said.

“He [Connick Jnr] rang me, I was leaving, I was climbing up the 3 or 4 steps to my plane while he was lined up for the airport going through security,” he quipped of his luxury travel arrangements compared to the other judges.

“I said to someone that he wanted the pronouns to be put onto the contestants’ sheets. I thought I heard him say to a producer, ‘we need the pronouns’ and I told someone on an interview, ‘Oh Harry’s going on about the pronouns.’

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Sandilands said the conversation turned into a fight and ended with Sandilands apologising and saying it’s “not a big deal”.
“I just thought ‘what a flop’ and hung up,” he said, adding: “That was it. Friendship over.” Sandilands explained that he and his fellow judge “don’t really chat off the set”.

“He’s a busy guy, he enjoys his own company,” he said.

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