Kyle Sandilands has finally revealed why he was mysteriously pulled off air during an interview with Alan Jones on the Kyle and Jackie-O show last month.
Back in October, the hosts were chatting to Alan on the Kyle and Jackie-O show when the show was cut off due to inappropriate content. The trio were midway through their chat about eating out, cars and homes and the show suddenly stopped and switch to approximately nine minutes of ads. A prerecorded alert then played that informed listeners the audio had been “dumped”
“This means someone said something inappropriate and is currently getting in trouble,” the message announced.
After the lengthy break, Kyle and Jackie-O returned, but Alan was gone. “We were going into weird territory – comparing cars and homes – then the show got dumped,” Kyle told listeners.
Dumping takes place when a radio show isn’t able to censor certain parts of a conversation in the 45 second delay between the time it’s recorded and broadcasted.
Kyle and Jackie-O started talking again, and shortly after Kyle was pulled off the air again.
In a fit of rage, Kyle told Jackie his lawyers had told him to pull himself “off the air until everyone is singing from the same hymn book”.
Although the shock jock warned his co-host if he’s “not back Monday, it didn’t work out well for me,” he did return to the show on Monday.
However, until now it hasn’t been revealed why exactly Kyle was dumped from the air. Today, Kyle explained that the conversation he and Alan were having at the time of the dumping, wasn’t necessarily controversial.
“Alan was like, ‘You’ve been in the papers a lot [lately] haven’t you Kyle?’ and everyone freaked out,” he told news.com.au.
“They thought he [Kyle] was going to go on [a rant] and he wasn’t,” Jackie added.
Kyle explained that despite the incident, the relationship between himself, Jackie and the radio station is “good”.
“[But] everyone needs to understand that Jackie and I own this show… They contract us to execute our show that we own,” he said.
“We’re happy with ARN, we love them, they love us, and every now and then there’s a miscommunication and that’s all that was,” he added.
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