{"id":514298,"date":"2026-06-23T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514298\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:22:09","slug":"kris-fade-australian-radio-star-kris-fade-explains-his-decision-to-reject-a-dream-job-ive-called-dubai-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/514298\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Fade: Australian radio star Kris Fade explains his decision to reject a dream job: &#8216;I\u2019ve called Dubai home&#8217; |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/kris-fade.jpg\" alt=\"Australian radio star Kris Fade explains his decision to reject a dream job: 'I\u2019ve called Dubai home'\" title=\"Kris Fade explains why he rejected his dream job in Australia. Image credits: Instagram\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Kris Fade explains why he rejected his dream job in Australia. Image credits: Instagram Kris Fade, the Australian radio star, has refused to take his dream radio job after weeks of listener speculation. The 46-year-old reflected on his decision to leave Sydney for good 19 years ago, making Dubai his new home. While he acknowledged the decision was difficult, considering his roots and childhood, he voiced that he cannot leave the home he built far from Down Under. Here\u2019s a closer look at Kris Fade\u2019s decision to refuse the dream job in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Fade reveals why he denied the job in Australia<\/p>\n<p>Fade penned a lengthy note to explain his thoughts on the dream job at KIIS FM, expressing how life threw him a curveball. However, he shared that he would \u2018never say never\u2019 to a permanent return to his land in Australia. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to publicly put it out there. I\u2019ve called Dubai home for 19 years \u2013 I can\u2019t just pack up my bags and go. There are things I\u2019ve committed to that are starting in a few months, so that was one of the reasons,\u201d he said on The Kris Fade Show on Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Kris Fade talks about family and missing Australia<\/p>\n<p>Fade continued to state that he loves what he created in Dubai with the company, radio, family, and his team. \u201cMy family are here as well; my wife, my kids, my two daughters are finishing off high school in the next two years. I think packing up our bags and going home now wouldn\u2019t have been easy for them, either,\u201d he said, per Nine. While he oftentimes misses life in Australia, he believes that he made the right choice. Talking about his career, the 46-year-old host dropped hints about making one of the biggest things, which will be known to the public in 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kris Fade explains why he rejected his dream job in Australia. Image credits: Instagram Kris Fade, the Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[155116,219558,219559,93,61,60,219557,219560,278],"class_list":["post-514298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-australian-radio","tag-dream-job-rejection","tag-dubai-radio-star","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kris-fade","tag-life-in-dubai","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}