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<\/p>\nKyle Sandilands and Jackie \u201cO\u201d Henderson are no longer a radio team, after 22 years of hosting the top-rating Kyle and Jackie O Show together, ARN Media has tonight announced.<\/p>\n
The pair were little more than a year into a ten-year, $200 million contract with KIIS parent company ARN, the biggest radio deal in Australian history.<\/p>\n
The announcement:<\/p>\n
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ARN calls an end to The Kyle & Jackie O Show<\/p>\n
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In an announcement to the ASX marked price sensitive, ARN said that Jackie Henderson had told it she no longer wanted to be part of The Kyle & Jackie O Show, and her contract had been terminated.<\/p>\n
Setting up a potential high stakes legal battle with Sandilands, ARN accused Sandilands of \u201cserious misconduct\u201d and said he will be off the air for at least the next fortnight. Henderson has been offered a new show in the future.<\/p>\n
Henderson hasn\u2019t been on air since Friday, February 20, after a bust-up during that morning\u2019s show that morning, where Sandilands accused Henderson of being unprofessional, claiming it had been a problem for months.<\/p>\n
The fight, which was removed from the podcast version of the show, started while Henderson was looking at stars chart on her phone while on air.<\/p>\n
Sandilands said Henderson\u2019s \u201cfixation\u201d with star signs has made her \u201calmost unworkable\u201d, and that she was \u201coff with the fairies\u201d \u2014 to which she took great offence.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s too much,\u201d Sandilands continued. \u201cIt\u2019s affecting everything else. You\u2019re too fixated on it. Every segment, every time you\u2019ve spoken, you\u2019re off with the \u2014 you don\u2019t even know what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fight lasted five minutes, including multiple interjections from team members. Sandilands said Henderson was \u201cnot doing the rest of the job, and everyone in this building has mentioned it to me\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone has said, \u2018What\u2019s going on with Jackie? She\u2019s off today.\u2019 Everyone you can see has said something over the last month at some stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Henderson was close to tears during the argument.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not tiptoeing through this for another couple of weeks,\u201d Sandilands said, later adding that \u201cit\u2019s affecting the whole sound of the program.\u201d<\/p>\n
Henderson pointed out that Sandilands\u2019 actions also affect the show.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I said, this is constant,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou don\u2019t know what the fuck is going on all the time, because you\u2019re looking at that phone, playing in the stars, and it\u2019s ridiculous.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can enjoy that, but you can\u2019t take over your whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Henderson was absent from the entire next week\u2019s worth of shows, and despite Sandilands telling listeners she\u2019d be back on air the following week, she didn\u2019t return to the show.<\/p>\n
The announcement:<\/p>\n
SYDNEY, Australia \u2013 Tuesday 3 March 2026 \u2013 ARN Media Limited [ASX: A1N] announces that
Ms Jacqueline Henderson has given notice that she \u201ccannot continue to work with Mr Kyle
Sandilands.\u201d Accordingly, ARN has terminated the services agreement with Henderson Media
Pty Ltd, under which Ms Henderson presents the Kyle and Jackie O show. Ms Henderson will
cease to present the Kyle and Jackie O show. ARN has also offered to Ms Henderson the
possibility of an alternative show on the ARN network.
ARN has also provided written notice to Mr Kyle Sandilands and Quasar Media Services Pty
Ltd (Quasar Media) stating that it considers that Mr Sandilands\u2019 behaviour during the show on
20 February 2026 is an act of serious misconduct which is in breach of ARN\u2019s services
agreement with Quasar Media, under which Mr Sandilands presents the Kyle and Jackie O
show. Mr Sandilands has been given 14 days to remedy this breach. If it is not remedied, ARN
will terminate the services agreement with Quasar Media, and in that event Mr Sandilands will
cease to present the Kyle and Jackie O show. During the 14 day period, Mr Sandilands will not
take part in the show.
The KIIS breakfast show will be taken off-air effective immediately, with interim arrangements
made for the show.<\/p>\n
The development will likely come as a relief for ARN Media. Thanks to the failure of the show to rate in Melbourne and advertiser boycotts orchestrated by MFW, the $20m per year deal has been loss-making.<\/p>\n
However, ARN\u2019s new metro radio boss, Dave Cameron, believed to have started in his role only yesterday, now faces the huge headache of not having a breakfast show in the key markets of Sydney and Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Sandilands and Jackie \u201cO\u201d Henderson are no longer a radio team, after 22 years of hosting the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,72253,72255,53493,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-515863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-jackie-o-henderson","tag-kyle-and-jackie-o","tag-kyle-sandilands","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}