Kyle Sandilands repeatedly berated Kiis FM executives, the radio station\u2019s censors, critics of the Kyle and Jackie O Show and the Melbourne audience in expletive-laden rants, according to federal court documents.<\/p>\n
The details of the alleged tirades, which aired months before the shock jock was sacked and accused of \u201cserious misconduct\u201d by ARN, are contained in the company\u2019s defence of an $85m claim filed by Sandilands.<\/p>\n
The defence alleges Sandilands called activist group Mad Fucking Witches (MFW) \u201cdangerous lunatics\u201d, denigrated the in-house censors for using the dump button and referred to ARN executives as \u201cpussies\u201d.<\/p>\n
The grassroots activists, MFW, launched a community campaign targeting Sandilands and was successful in damaging Kiis FM\u2019s advertising revenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll have [private investigators] following everyone they\u2019ve ever known till I find some shit on these folks,\u201d he said about MFW, according to the court documents. \u201cI think they\u2019re Mothers For Wokeness, MFW. They\u2019re a bunch of lunatics. They\u2019re actually very threatening.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also denigrated the show\u2019s Melbourne audience and attacked management for efforts to increase the program\u2019s popularity in that market, ARN said in documents released by the federal court on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere\u2019s something I haven\u2019t even discussed with Jackie. If we don\u2019t rate better by the end of this year, I\u2019m pulling the carpet out. I\u2019ll just take the show off Melbourne. You can suck my dick\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
He said ARN had \u201cno control whatsoever over what we do on this show\u201d and told the censor: \u201cDon\u2019t go bleeping this shit out or you censors will have no job.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me explain one more time, the bosses have no control whatsoever over what we do on this show. Zero. None. Jackie and I … it starts and ends with what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The dispute began with an on-air argument<\/a> between Sandilands and his co-host, Jackie \u201cO\u201d Henderson over her interest in astrology. She walked off the breakfast show after he gave her a dressing down which brought her to tears. Henderson told ARN she could no longer work with her on-air partner of 25 years and her contract was terminated.<\/a><\/p>\n Henderson has also launched legal action<\/a>, claiming she should be awarded compensation of \u201cat least $82,250,000\u201d for the wrongful termination of her 10-year contract. Henderson has alleged she was subject to \u201cdegrading\u201d comments by Sandilands on air.<\/p>\n According to the defence, during the final appearance on air together Sandilands said to Henderson \u201cI\u2019ve been carrying this whole show for a fucking year \u2026 I\u2019m just left here with a limp dick in my hand.\u201d<\/p>\n The ARN defence said Sandilands told Melbourne listeners, who were not tuning in at the rate management had expected, \u201cYou can suck my dick\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t give a shit [about shareholders]. I got my money. End of caring.\u201d<\/p>\n ARN alleges Sandilands walked off the show in July 2025 after complaining about the censor and the law of contempt of court. The radio station was under pressure after the Victorian office of public prosecutions considered contempt charges<\/a> in relation to comments he made about murderer Erin Patterson during her trial.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to waste my life coming in here when I\u2019m being given this instruction, that instruction, this archaic law, that archaic law,\u201d Sandilands said, according to the defence. \u201cNot doing it. Just not interested in being puppeteered by losers. Right?\u201d<\/p>\n ARN launches cross-claim against former hosts<\/p>\n ARN has also filed a cross-claim to both Sandilands and Henderson\u2019s law suits which alleges that Sandilands broke his $100m, 10-year contract through his behaviour which resulted in Henderson refusing to present with her co-host.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a consequence [ARN has] suffered loss or damage in the form of lost advertising revenue, or lost profits,\u201d the cross-claim lodged in the federal court said.<\/p>\n ARN is seeking damages from the pair for breach of their separate $100m contracts and loss of advertising revenue.<\/p>\n In its defence ARN said it directed Sandilands to read, understand and comply with the broadcasting code <\/a>after the Australian Communications and Media Authority (Acma) threatened to impose additional licence conditions on the licensees after repeated breaches of the decency provision of the commercial radio code of practice.<\/p>\n