43 Facts About Kyle Sandilands

Kyle Dalton Sandilands was born on 10 June 1971 and is an Australian radio host, shock jock and television personality.

Kyle Sandilands is currently the co-host, with Jackie O, of the weekday morning radio program The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Sydney's radio station KIIS 106.5.

From 2005 to 2009, and again since 2023, Kyle Sandilands has served as a judge on Australian Idol.

In 2014, Kyle Sandilands made his first appearance in a motion picture in Fat Pizza vs Housos.

Kyle Sandilands landed his first radio job in 1992, at the age of 21, at 4TO Townsville where he was employed to drive the station's promotional vehicle.

Kyle Sandilands took gigs in Cairns, and then Darwin, before joining Austereo's Triple M in a Brisbane station by using a false resume to impress one of the station's executives.

Kyle Sandilands was paid $255,000 per year while working on the Hot30 Countdown.

Much media coverage of Kyle Sandilands has focused on the negative aspects of his personality and behaviour, notably his widely publicised clashes with and criticism of other media figures, his intemperate on-air outbursts and his alleged "out-of-control" ego.

In September 2006, Kyle Sandilands was named the most hated Australian identity in a Zoo Weekly article, although on 14 October 2006, Kyle Sandilands and Henderson were named "Best On-Air Team" at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards.

Kyle Sandilands returned to his radio show on 18 August 2009 but was suspended on 9 September 2009 due to on-air comments relating to Magda Szubanski.

In 2005, Kyle Sandilands replaced Ian "Dicko" Dickson as one of the judges on Network Ten's Australian Idol.

Kyle Sandilands continued as a judge on Idol until, just before the premiere of its seventh season, he was dropped from the show in August 2009.

Kyle Sandilands was involved in a number of controversies relating to remarks to contestants as his stint as a judge.

In September 2006, Kyle Sandilands told 2006 runner-up contestant Jessica Mauboy to lose her "jelly belly".

Kyle Sandilands claimed that he meant no disrespect to those with Down syndrome.

In September 2022, Kyle Sandilands was announced as a returning judge for the Seven Network's revival of the series for 2023.

Kyle Sandilands rejoined the show as the only judge from the previous iteration of the show, judging alongside former American Idol judge Harry Connick Jr.

In 2002, Kyle Sandilands competed in the only Australian series of Celebrity Big Brother.

On 14 July 2007, two weeks before the season finale, Kyle Sandilands appeared on the 2007 Australian season of Big Brother.

However, after a heated verbal exchange with Big Brother, Kyle Sandilands reportedly required anti-nausea injections for migraines and began vomiting every 30 minutes.

Kyle Sandilands added he wasn't hired to be "bland and boring", and that he was just being honest.

In May 2010, it was announced that Kyle Sandilands would become one of the new judges as the fourth judge on the second season of The X Factor Australia, alongside other new judges Ronan Keating, Guy Sebastian and Natalie Imbruglia who replaced John Reid, Mark Holden and Kate Ceberano.

On 16 March 2011, Kyle Sandilands announced on his breakfast radio show that he would not be returning as a judge in the third series of The X Factor.

In 2017, Kyle Sandilands narrated the reality television program Meet the Hockers, a show similar to Pawn Stars, which he produced.

In 2018, Sandilands appeared in a pilot for a possible television series, Trial by Kyle, on Network Ten.

The reality show is set in a court room with Kyle Sandilands passing judgement across a whole range of real life cases.

In July and August 2005, Kyle Sandilands was accused of "cooking the charts" by giving airplay to "Ooh Ahh".

In 2006, Kyle Sandilands won a defamation suit, with the court ruling that Today Tonight had defamed the radio host.

On 22 August 2007, Kyle Sandilands was interviewed by Andrew Denton for Enough Rope.

Kyle Sandilands' management has advised Austereo that he is unable to perform his duties on-air at this time.

Kyle Sandilands joked that Szubanski's work with the weight loss company was not finished.

Kyle Sandilands could get another season out of them, easy.

Kyle Sandilands said he would donate $35,000 to a family of a child with a disability in 2009; however, he donated only $20,000, but he later gave the full amount.

In 2006, Kyle Sandilands referred to an Australian Idol contestant as a "mong", a term that has been used in the past as a label for people with Down syndrome.

Kyle Sandilands was investigated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority authority after the 2012 comment.

In 2022, Kyle Sandilands claimed that monkeypox was a "big gay disease" and that "only the gays" are contracting monkeypox.

Across his career, Kyle Sandilands made numerous fatphobic insults, most notably on the 2006 season of Australian Idol.

On various occasions, including in the Enough Rope interview, Kyle Sandilands has spoken to the media of his difficult childhood.

On 26 September 2008, Kyle Sandilands married pop singer Tamara Jaber and the couple shared a house in St Ives, located in Sydney's Upper North Shore.

Since March 2012, it was reported that Kyle Sandilands was in a relationship with much-younger woman Imogen Anthony.

On 11 August 2022 Kyle Sandilands became a father for the first time, when his fiancee Tegan Kynaston gave birth to their son Otto.

Kyle Sandilands married Kynaston in April 2023 at Swifts, Darling Point in Sydney, which controversially included high profile political figures such as the current Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the current New South Wales Premier Chris Minns.

In February 2025, Kyle Sandilands revealed that he had a brain aneurysm and that he would require surgery live on his radio program.