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<\/p>\nJackie ‘O’ Henderson complained for months about co-host Kyle Sandilands before their final on-air bust up, court documents allege.<\/p>\n
In a claim statement lodged with the Federal Court, the broadcast star said nothing in her AU$100 million, 10-year contract with radio giant ARN should have led her to be fired just for refusing to work with Sandilands.<\/p>\n
On February 20, the pair clashed on KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O Show after Sandilands accused his co-host of being “off with the fairies”.<\/p>\n
But Henderson alleged in court documents she complained to station management multiple times about comments by Sandilands for around six months.<\/p>\n
In August 2025, Sandilands made “offensive and degrading comments on-air”, she said.<\/p>\n
The documents claim Sandilands said some of Henderson’s comments were “weird, psychological bullshit” and her belief in “hype words” was negatively impacting her dating life.<\/p>\n
Sandilands also referred to her “period time”, the documents said.<\/p>\n
Henderson claimed she temporarily left the show and spoke to station head Derek Bargwanna and executive producer Natalie Penfold as a result.<\/p>\n
A month later, the pair allegedly clashed again and words used by Sandilands were censored by the station.<\/p>\n
A day after the argument, Henderson alleged she asked Bargwanna to raise issues about Sandilands’ conduct with ARN chairman Hamish McLennan.<\/p>\n
The claim document said Henderson was receiving multiple complaints from listeners that Sandilands was perpetrating an “abusive relationship”.<\/p>\n
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Radio hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jacqueline \u2018Jackie O\u2019 Henderson will no longer present the KIIS FM breakfast program together. (Source: Kyle and Jackie O Show via Instagram)<\/p>\n
Bargwanna told her he raised the issue with ARN management, she said.<\/p>\n
When the two clashed for the final time in February, Henderson claimed her employer did nothing to intervene despite being visibly and audibly upset.<\/p>\n
She said Sandilands swore at her four separate times in the tirade, as well as questioning her ability to do her job, causing her to be hurt and offended.<\/p>\n
Henderson informed ARN she could no longer work with Sandilands on February 26 and that the company had breached its obligation to provide a safe place of work.<\/p>\n
She alleged the company did nothing to minimise the risk to her wellbeing despite her repeated warnings.<\/p>\n
On March 3, the company’s lawyers wrote to Henderson and said her complaint represented a breach of her contract, the documents allege.<\/p>\n
However, Henderson claimed the contract did not specify she had to present with Sandilands.<\/p>\n
“It was an express term of the agreement that the ‘programme services’ could be provided… in a live broadcast radio program that did not include Sandilands,” the document stated.<\/p>\n
For the alleged unfair termination of her agreement, Henderson claims she is owed at least AU$82.25 million in unpaid fees.<\/p>\n
Her and Sandilands both signed contracts worth AU$100 million over 10 years in October 2023.<\/p>\n
Henderson also said she was denied the opportunity to earn a share of station revenue as set out in her contract.<\/p>\n
The trouble for the radio giant comes as it fights a separate court battle with the other half of the presenting partnership. <\/p>\n
Sandilands was sacked by the company for “serious misconduct” during the February 20 clash, a claim the shock jock denies.<\/p>\n
He is also seeking the payout of the rest of his AU$100 million contract.<\/p>\n
Henderson and ARN will have their first case management hearing in the Federal Court on April 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackie ‘O’ Henderson complained for months about co-host Kyle Sandilands before their final on-air bust up, court documents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[85,430,156,1073,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-369138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}