{"id":530416,"date":"2026-03-10T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530416\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:05:09","slug":"kyle-sandilands-insists-he-is-not-in-breach-of-100m-contract-over-on-air-fight-with-co-host-with-jackie-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530416\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Sandilands insists he is not in breach of $100m contract over on-air fight with co-host with Jackie O"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Sandilands has argued he is not in breach of his $100 million contract with ARN Media, after he was taken off air for “an act of serious misconduct” on his and Jackie “O” Henderson’s hit radio show.<\/p>\n

Sandilands today released a statement calling on ARN Media, owner of KIIS FM, to “honour our agreement” and let him return to the Kyle and Jackie O Show.<\/p>\n

“I have a contract with ARN that runs until 2034. I am committed to that contract,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Despite what ARN says, I am not in breach of that contract.”<\/p>\n

Last week, the network said it considered Sandilands’s behaviour during the show on February 20 “an act of serious misconduct” in breach of his contract.<\/p>\n

During the February 20 show, Sandilands had an on-air argument with Henderson in which he described her “fixation” on horoscopes as making her “almost unworkable”, an exchange she described as an attack.<\/p>\n

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Sandilands called on ARN Media to “honour our agreement”. (Facebook: Kyle and Jackie O)<\/p>\n

The tirade from Sandilands was prompted by a segment in which the pair discussed the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Henderson had shown interest in looking up the former prince’s horoscope.<\/p>\n

In an ASX announcement last Tuesday, ARN Media said Henderson had “given notice” she could not continue to work with Sandilands.<\/p>\n

Henderson later denied she had quit the show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Ms Henderson will cease to present the Kyle and Jackie O Show,” ARN Media’s statement said, confirming the show would be taken off-air “effective immediately”.<\/p>\n

A suspended Sandilands was given 14 days to “remedy this breach” or “cease to present” the show.<\/p>\n

Sandilands says he apologised to Jackie O\"A<\/p>\n

Sandilands said he meant “every word” of his apology to Henderson following his on-air tirade. (Facebook: The Kyle and Jackie O Show)<\/p>\n

Sandilands said he contacted Henderson hours after the on-air argument, saying he meant “every word” of his apology.<\/p>\n

“I said things I wish I had said differently,” he said of the tirade.<\/p>\n

“That same evening, I sent Jackie a message telling her I was sorry for anything I said that didn’t go down well, that I love her and care for her, and that I could have handled it better.”<\/p>\n

Read more about the Kyle and Jackie O split:<\/p>\n

Sandilands said it had not been a “genuine process” with ARN Media, claiming he was told by the network not to contact Jackie, nor to speak to his colleagues.<\/p>\n

“The truth is that ARN terminated Jackie’s contract on the same day it accused me of a breach,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Jackie told me she was hurt, and I accept that.<\/p>\n

“We never needed lawyers or ASX announcements to sort things out. I believe we could have sorted this out, too, if ARN had given us the chance.”<\/p>\n

Sandilands noted his wish to return to the show, telling his listeners: “I’ll be back”.<\/p>\n

One of the longest contract signings in Australian commercial history, the duo were meant to remain with the network until the end of 2034.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Sandilands has argued he is not in breach of his $100 million contract with ARN Media, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[263525,258346,64,63,134,263524,72253,263523,222689,72255,257698,53493,263521,263520,263522,263519],"class_list":["post-530416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-kyle-and-jackie-o-show-segment","tag-arn-media","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-is-kyle-sandilands-in-breach-of-his-contract","tag-jackie-o-henderson","tag-jackie-o-henderson-what-did-she-do","tag-kiis-fm","tag-kyle-and-jackie-o","tag-kyle-and-jackie-o-show","tag-kyle-sandilands","tag-kyle-sandilands-contract","tag-kyle-sandilands-statement","tag-kyle-sandilands-what-did-he-do","tag-kyle-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530416","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=530416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}