Former radio host Kyle Sandilands has revealed how he is holding up financially following his sacking from his KIIS FM breakfast show with co-host Jackie “O” Henderson in February.
During an appearance on The Karl Stefanovic Show on Sunday, Mr Sandilands revealed he had received a surprising call from the bank.
“I’m not looking for the violin at all,” he said during the interview with former Today host Karl Stefanovic.
“The bank call was refreshingly surprising, they couldn’t have been better. Cos I’ve always thought these guys are a**holes when you’re at your worst that’s when they kick, stab, stab, that’s what I thought, it’s like a jailyard pile-on.
“But they were great”
The former shock said his friends were very generous in their offerings of financial help.
“My friends are offering bags of money, ‘do you want a million dollars’, ‘do you want this’, ‘what do you need’. I was like, ‘thank you but no’.”
A keen investor, Mr Sandilands revealed he was one year into his 10-year plan when he was sacked, and had spent $3 million renovating holiday homes.
“ … I know I look flashing it all around and pi**ing all the money away but we’ve actually got quite a good investment portfolio, property portfolio, company shares, but you can’t liquidate that and I’d just spent about $3 million on renovating holiday homes and some other big monster I’m building out in the mountains, ‘oh boohoo poor Kyle’.
“But that was part of the 10-year plan. I was one year into the 10 year plan and then due to someone’s bad mood that all fell apart I’d imagine.
“I’m not sure why, still don’t know the real reason, won’t speak to Jackie until she’s finished with her court proceedings.”
These days, he says he almost doesn’t care anymore about discovering the reason behind the sacking, and insists losing his job was not as bad as he’d imagined.
“People would think, ‘he’s crushed’. There are people rejoicing and stamping all over the death and the ashes of both of us. But let them. They’ve got very little joy in their heart, those trolls,” he said.
During the interview, Mr Sandilands also revealed he has received death threats.
“There was death threats and letters in my office explaining, ‘If you ever do anything on any platform, we’ll kill you, we’ll hunt you down’,” Mr Sandilands said.
“I know these people are lunatics but what if just one of those lunatics has a weapon?”
“ … We are living in a very strange society.”