{"id":842526,"date":"2026-08-03T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842526\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:28:12","slug":"death-threats-followed-radio-exit-kyle-sandilands-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842526\/","title":{"rendered":"Death threats followed radio exit, Kyle Sandilands says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacked shock-jock Kyle Sandilands says he received death threats over his high-profile exit from KIIS FM.<\/p>\n

On former Today host Karl Stefanovic’s podcast, on an episode released to YouTube on Sunday, the duo talked about their lives after legacy media.<\/p>\n

Sandilands claimed multiple threatening letters were left at his office earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

“There were death threats, letters in my office explaining, ‘If you ever do anything on any platform, we’ll kill you, we’ll hunt you down’,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I know these people are lunatics, but what if just one of those lunatics has a weapon? Do you ever think about that?”<\/p>\n

Sandilands suggested Australia was entering an assassination culture apparently originating from the United States. <\/p>\n

He pointed to the New York killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson in 2024, and “fans” of his alleged killer. <\/p>\n

“We’re living in a very strange society. Those people are taught by other loons all through the education system,” he said. <\/p>\n

“We’ve all got extreme mates \u2026 we’re probably our mates’ extreme mates, but we need to be based in some sort of correct assumption of what life’s all about.”<\/p>\n

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The pair had been on air together for 22 years. (File image). (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

Sandilands and former co-host “Jackie O” Henderson were let go by ARN over an on-air spat<\/a> during their show.<\/p>\n

Both hosts launched lawsuits against their former employers, and Henderson’s remains before the courts.<\/p>\n

ARN and Sandilands settled their suit for AU$12 million (NZ$14.3 million) in June. <\/p>\n

Sandilands since revealed plans for his own subscription based programme, Kyle Sandilands Live.<\/p>\n

His high-profile legal battle with his former employers, however, had left him disillusioned with the justice system. <\/p>\n

He said he was left to feel like the “little person”. <\/p>\n

“I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with lawyers \u2026 only for someone to say, ‘It was gross misconduct, you’re fired’,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This legal system \u2026 it’s not fair. Whether I can pay for it or not, it’s designed to squash the little person down. And in this case, I was a little person.”<\/p>\n

Stefanovic similarly told UK journalist Piers Morgan his departure from Nine left him “a bit discombobulated”. <\/p>\n

“It’s painful \u2026 (but) I’m not going to stop, we’ll move on,” he said in July. <\/p>\n

“There’s a part of me that feels free to really have my own freedom.” <\/p>\n

The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including another earthquake wakes thousands, a Kiwi runner sets an ultramarathon record, and the lucky escape for a New York scooter rider. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacked shock-jock Kyle Sandilands says he received death threats over his high-profile exit from KIIS FM. On former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,1685],"class_list":["post-842526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842526","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=842526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}