Ten sacks Sandilands as Australian Idol judge
Network Ten has announced this afternoon that Kyle Sandilands has been sacked from his role as Australian Idol judge following the Today FM rape scandal on his radio show last week.
A statement released by the network today said, “It has become increasingly clear that as Idol has remained a family focused show his radio persona has taken on a more controversial position over this period which is not in the interest of the show.”
While Sandilands will appear in the first three episodes of the series as they were taped prior to the radio scandal, the search is on for a replacement to join judges Marcia Hines and Ian “Dicko” Dickson for the seventh season of the show, which will premiere on Sunday night.
The sacking is the second blow for Sandilands this week with the Kyle and Jackie O show, the program at the centre of the controversy, being taken off air pending investigations into the incident.
Update: Sandilands has issued his own statement saying: “I’m disappointed at Channel 10’s decision to remove me from Australian Idol. I have truly loved being a part of the show and wish everyone involved all of the success for this coming season.”
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I wonder who Kyle’s going to blame for this?
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Thats the problem when you are so high up… When you fall, it’s a loooong way down. If he was a nice person I would feel sorry for him… Um, No… Not feeling it xxxx
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It’s about time … good riddance to white trash I say. I might even consider watching Idol now. I haven’t watched it since he joined the judging panel … might wait till the third episode with him in it has passed though.
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Thank you for listening Channel 10.
Much respect.
Andrew
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Well handled channel 10.
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Ding dong the witch is dead the witch is dead, the wicked witch is deeeeaaaddd
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A satisfactory and appropriate result. Thanks Channel 10.
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Don’t agree with what he did on the show. Don’t particularly like that shock-jock stuff. But if Kyle goes so should a lot of others. How about the music companies that peddle soft porn to kids in their latest videos? How about Foxtel making a big deal of a contestant on Designer Runway say “we’re fucked”? How about the people responsible for the current daytime radio campaign that beeps out “F$#@” every third word as if it wasn’t obvious? How about everyone who thinks having access to the media entitles them to say and do anything they wouldn’t have the guts and decency to say in front of their own mother or children. So, as much as I’m disgusted with his and Jackie O’s behaviour [or have we forgiven her simply because she’s not Kyle] I fear he’s being made the fall-guy for all the crap that masquerades as edgy entertainment.
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Thank goodness! Austereo couldn’t take a responsible action. Thank goodness the Idol franchise (way bigger influence than any Australian organisation) had the sense to make the right call.
Kyle – go away and think about your actions. See if you can really understand why everyone’s so mad and try to come back a better person. If you can’t, then just don’t come back!
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Ive always liked Kyle. Sure, he can be a tool some of the time but he’s a pretty generous guy – if you listened to his show you would see that they’re always helping someone out in some way. Sadly, this segment went the wrong way. The one to be punishing in all of this is the girls mother. What a disgraceful human. I dont think he deserves to be sacked because of it.
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well done channel 10
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From SMH: Sandilands said last night that he was disappointed with Ten’s decision. ‘‘I have truly loved being a part of the show and wish everyone involved all of the success for this coming season.”
Sounds like it came straight from a publicist’s Blackberry. I think Kyle’s actual response to Channel Ten would be little more than two words, the second one being “off”…
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Absolutely agree Adam Paull. Having had the unpleasant experience of having to work closely with Vile and his on-air counterpart I can confirm that he is not a good person and that she is a willing participant who likes to be portrayed as “the nice one.”.
Over the years excuse after excuse has been made by Austereo to justify Vile’s behavior towards his staff and industry contacts as ratings have been all that mattered. Only now that the community is outraged at their latest hijinx have Austereo and Network Ten taken the appropriate action. About time indeed.
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I feel that this was Bullsh!t and just comes to show that the media is just full of it.. they are typically up themselves, the TV news obviously have no other good news to share except put down their own people, wot? have they run out of things to say about the Kiwi’s… WOT’R’YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if you listen to the 2day show and know the radio crew for who they really are, they do more for the Australians then any other australian i know!
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Good riddance… is there some way we can kick him out of the country too? Australia has no place for bullies like Kyle.
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I agree Renee, Lets start up an “Exile Kyle and Husband Tamara to NZ” Petition.
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I agree Kyle did the wrong thing but what everyone seems to be forgetting is the young girls mother. She knew and made her daughter tell Sydney radio listeners her horrible ordeal, not only that the mother did not bother to report or get her daughter much needed help. The mother seem to think it was funny, surely this is way worst then What Kyle said.
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For everyone that brings up the girls mother – yes, we agree she is an irresponsible mother. But what Austereo, Kyle and Jackie O did was to allow for a segment that used a form of abuse as entertainment. That is wrong. Their whole show is wrong and people as ignorant as Kyle and Jackie should not be allowed to speak to large audiences as often as they do.
Put something on that is beneficial to society and take off that stuff that encourages base stupidity and disrespect.
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@Stacey – no one is forgetting the girl’s mother. Without a doubt, she’s a first class idiot, someone who doesn’t deserve to have children. Seriously!
And while I agree Kyle is being made the scapegoat above and beyond Jackie O, 2Day FM and Austereo themselves (who initially said there would be no consequences for the tashy duo)… he definitely has only himself to blame.
Check out this article by MediaWatch: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawat.....644599.htm
This is far from the first horrible stunt the two of them have pulled on their show. And this isn’t even mentioning the time when their show was Brisbane based only, and they made another teenage girl cry by having the girl’s mother admit on-air that she’d slept with her daughter’s boyfriend.
Are Vile & Tacky to blame for the idiots they bring onto the show? Of course not. But are they responsible for how they handle themselves, and treat those they bring on the show? Yes!
Kyle did not respond appropriately, either, once the lie detector thing blew up in their faces. He basically tried to say ‘oh well, its sad but hey at least the girl is getting help now’. That was the upshot of his post on The Punch.
A contrite appology would have gone much further, but still… I’m so glad the Australian public were outraged and I sincerely hope both of those idiots take a moment to understand the gravity of this stunt and some of the others they’ve pulled off (without complaint) in the past.
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Absolutely agree that this was the right thing for them to do, and in no way condone the stunt, but…
Most of the comments have based their criticism on the fact that a stunt around asking a 14yr old girl about her sexual experiences on air is deplorable in itself, and Kyle’s comments were just another step out of line.
If the rape thing had never come up, do you think there would have been any scandal ? or would it have been just another tacky stunt….
Do it take a rape for us to sit up and pay attention to this type of stuff ?
I think it probably does, and that’s a bit of a worry…
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I wonder what’s happening to Jackie O? Kyle is 100% prat but she was there, their program director help set it up, there was more than one person involved here.
Bravo however to 10, I might look in on the show now that he’s gone.
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14 y.o girl set-up on Kyle and Jackie O Show to discuss whether she’s had sex.
But mother endorses Kyle and Jackie O’s questioning.
Result – public outrage at exploitation of minor.
School Principal lets Bill Henson trawl primary school for 12 y.o child to pose nude for photo shoot.
But mother of Henson 12 y.o model gives permission for daughter to be photographed nude.
Result – public outrage of exploitation of minor.
Conclusion – Kyle, Jackie O and Henson and both sets of parents guilty of exploitation of minors and deserve condemnation.
But wait…….people who supported Henson are criticising Kyle and Jackie O.
Strange thing double standards.
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To everyone replied to me…….like I said above first I do think what kyle DID was wrong (he could of use better words) I don’t need to be told that . But the mother did a way worst thing and it looks kyle is getting all the blame and I listen to the show that day it was no stunt it was not known before hand the girl was raped….I’m no kyle and jackie o fan but I did hear this while I was in a friends car. A lot of people hate kyle and I feel the media is using this poor girls rape against him…its sick its sad and I’m sick of hearing of it. I wanna hear some real news like the rape victims mother being charged with child neglect.
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