{"id":900779,"date":"2026-09-22T02:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900779\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T02:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:18:14","slug":"kyle-sandilands-reacts-to-new-kiis-breakfast-hosts-dr-chris-brown-amy-gerard-and-jack-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900779\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Sandilands reacts to new KIIS Breakfast hosts Dr Chris Brown, Amy Gerard and Jack Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Sandilands<\/a> has delivered his verdict on the new KIIS breakfast hosts<\/a> taking over the slot once dominated by him and former co-host Jackie O Henderson<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr Chris Brown, Amy Gerard and Jack Charles<\/a> were finally confirmed as the hosts on Monday after months of speculation and the shock jock didn\u2019t hold back on his Kyle Sandilands Live show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Kyle Sandilands has delivered his verdict on the new KIIS Breakfast hosts and he didn\u2019t hold back on one \u2018vanilla\u2019 host.\u00a0Kyle Sandilands Live<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, Sandilands had no idea the announcement had been made.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you feeling a bit smug today, Kyle, cause you \u2013 well I feel like you guessed \u2013 got it right for the KIIS lineup,\u201d asked newsreader Mary Madigan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sandilands admitted he hadn\u2019t paid any attention to it, so actually had no idea who the hosts were as his show kicked off on Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were right, Dr Chris Brown,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was always right,\u201d Sandilands quipped.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While he didn\u2019t agree with the colour choice for the new show branding, he did have a message of support for the new trio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGood luck to them, I hope they do their very best because it\u2019s not an easy gig\u2026\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then things turned to the hosts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The shock jock said a statement from ARN about the new show translated to \u201cboring as batshit\u201d. \u00a0Kyle Sandilands Live<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know Chris well, but I’ve met him,\u201d Sandilands said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s a bit vanilla, but you know, that’s alright.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAmy, I think she’s a fun girl, I think she does a great job, and I don’t know the other chap, but I’m sure if he’s been on with Chrissy Swan for a while, he’ll know, he’ll know what’s what.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Madigan read out a statement from ARN about the new hosting trio and their vision for the show, which Sandilands wasn\u2019t sold on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, that to me equals boring as batshit radio,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/p>\n

Dr Chris Brown, Amy Gerard and Jack Charles are your new KIIS Breakfast Sydney hosts.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

Sandilands was one of the first to reveal that the celebrity vet had been approached for the breakfast radio gig, although ARN denied it. <\/p>\n

As the speculation ramped up, a statement was released by the network that said they had not signed Brown \u2013 a detail that Sandilands went hard on during the Tuesday morning live show. <\/p>\n

Dr Chris had also firmly denied he was lined up for the job at the Logie Awards in August despite being congratulated on the red carpet by plenty of media for the new role. <\/p>\n

The confirmation that he was taking the reins of the breakfast show alongside Gerard \u2013 who has been a regular in the slot for months \u2013 and Charles, has ended months of speculation. <\/p>\n

The trio will be joined by experienced broadcaster and producer Natalie Penfold as the show\u2019s newsreader.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Kyle<\/p>\n

Kyle and Jackie O were the network\u2019s best performing and highest-paid duo until their on air spat in February, which ultimately was the end of their working relationship. \u00a0KIIS FM<\/p>\n

KIIS lost Sandilands and Henderson, the network\u2019s best performing and highest-paid duo, earlier this year after a\u00a0heated on-air argument<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It kicked off when Sandilands criticised Henderson for discussing birth charts and astrological signs, which she described as a \u201cmean and nasty\u201d attack.<\/p>\n

Henderson took time off after the exchange in February, then told the network she couldn\u2019t continue to work with Sandilands.<\/p>\n

He was suspended over \u201cserious misconduct\u201d and given 14 days to remedy the breach, during which time\u00a0The Kyle and Jackie O Show\u00a0was taken off-air.<\/p>\n

It never returned to the airwaves, as Sandilands\u2019 contract with ARN was torn up in March.<\/p>\n

He filed a $100 million lawsuit against his former employer. ARN then reached a $12 million settlement with Sandilands in June.<\/p>\n

Sandilands went on to launch his own subscription-based show, Kyle Sandilands Live<\/a>, in August.<\/p>\n

Henderson, who said she \u201cdid not quit or resign\u201d from the network, filed her own $82.25 million suit against ARN. Her contract claim will head to court in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Sandilands has delivered his verdict on the new KIIS breakfast hosts taking over the slot once dominated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-900779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900779","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=900779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}