Kyle Sandilands has tearfully revealed he is battling a serious health condition – leaving his radio co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson visibly shaken.
The 48-year-old, long considered one of radio’s most divisive figures, will tell all in an exclusive interview with his friend Karl Stefanovic on 60 Minutes on Sunday night.
Sandilands, one half of the Kyle & Jackie O Show, looked at his colleague with tears in his eyes and told her he’d been keeping the diagnosis a secret for some time.
Sandilands, one half of the Kyle & Jackie O Show, looked at his colleague with tears in his eyes and told her he’d been keeping the diagnosis a secret for some time now
The duo have been working together for almost 20 years, and dominate the airways as Australia’s number one breakfast show
‘I love you and it’s been wonderful,’ he said, struggling to control his emotions.
‘[But] there’s a condition that I’ve been diagnosed with that I haven’t spoken to anyone about.’
The preview for Sunday night’s episode then cuts to Jackie ‘O’ Henderson, who wipes away tears from her eyes.
The duo have been working together for almost 20 years, and dominate the airways as Australia’s number one breakfast show.
Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson arrive for the debut single launch by pop group Scandal’Us at Sydney’s Planet Hollywood in 2001. The pair are ratings winners on KIIS FM
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Other parts of the interview will reflect on the time they’ve spent getting to the top – and just how hard it is to maintain their status.
‘I’m always worried you’re going to say something and it’ll just ruin you,’ Henderson told Sandilands. ‘Staying at number one is harder than getting to number one.’
In response, Sandilands said he ‘doesn’t give a f**k’ – an ethos that his management and bosses have capitalised on throughout his career.
‘Millions of dollars of marketing has been spent on me being a bastard,’ he laughed, while describing Henderson as the ‘yin to my yang’.
Moving on: Kyle is now dating his former personal assistant Tegan Kynaston (left), who is now the communications director of his company – King Kyle Pty Ltd
Other parts of the interview will reflect on the time they’ve spent getting to the top – and just how hard it is to maintain their status. Pictured with Cody Simpson
After living it rough on the streets as a child and decades of mistreating his body, the 48-year-old revealed last year he’d started taking more care of his body on doctors’ orders.
In October 2019, Sandilands told The Daily Telegraph he started eating healthier, had stopped drinking excessive amounts of alcohol and his casual drug use.
‘Now, if I did one line, I’d be dead in five seconds,’ he said at the time.
Plenty of cash to splash! Known as the ‘king and queen of Sydney radio’, Kyle and co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson are believed to be getting paid $8million each per year
He added: ‘I was like a teenage boy my entire life, and that caught up with me… so that had to get sorted out.’
He had taken cocaine and marijuana ‘on and off’ over the years, before deciding to completely cut them out of his life – as well as alcohol and sugary junk food.
‘I’ve still got high blood pressure and I’m still on medication like a mess,’ he added.
He had taken cocaine and marijuana ‘on and off’ over the years, before deciding to completely cut them out of his life – as well as alcohol and sugary junk food
On May 1, Kyle weighed himself on air and revealed he tipped the scales at 146kg – sixteen kilograms heavier than the last time he’d weighed himself.
‘Yep, I’ve gone up a bit!’ he said. ‘I’ve gone from 130kg to 146kg… I haven’t done a s**t yet, mind you.’
He went on to say that he could ‘care less’ about the massive weight gain.
Back in 2017, Kyle was warned by a psychic that he was ‘going to die of a heart attack’ the following year.
On May 1, Kyle weighed himself on air and revealed he tipped the scales at 146kg – sixteen kilograms heavier than the last time he’d weighed himself
While the psychic didn’t specify that his death would be weight related, she did warn him to get a calcium score test done on his heart.
A calcium score test measures the calcium in your arteries to determine the risk of a heart attack or stroke.
In 2014, obesity specialist Dr Edward Jackowski warned that Kyle would die young because of his weight and lifestyle.
Before his recent weight gain, Kyle had been trying to shed the kilos.
Last June, he told Daily Mail Australia that he had dropped ‘three belt sizes’ in the span of 12 months.
‘I’m eating healthy and dropping off weight, but it’s a slow process,’ he said.
‘I’ve lost three belt sizes and people I haven’t seen for ages are surprised when they see me, they all tell me I’ve lost weight.’
Kyle said he had started exercising and was enjoying the benefits of a healthy meal delivery plan.
He also stopped some of his worst habits, such as drinking ‘two litres of Coca-Cola and two litres of milk every day’.
‘I was eating s**t before and I’m so stubborn that I never wanted to listen when people told me to get in shape,’ he explained.
‘I was grossly overweight and it was making me sick. My health is so much better now.’