Kyle Sandilands makes Australia’s Got Talent return as guest judge
Radio host Kyle Sandilands is making a long-awaited return to TV judging, more than a decade after stints on Australia’s Got Talent and X-Factor and his 2009 sacking from Australian Idol.
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Kyle Sandilands will return to Australia’s Got Talent but has vowed not to waste his time with the early stages of the competition.
The outspoken radio host has signed on for the pointy end of the competition as a guest judge alongside a panel of Sonia Kruger, Olympia Valance, Shane Jacobson and Manu Feildel.
“It’ll be great to be back in the judging seat for Australia’s Got Talent although what’s even greater is the show only needing my judging skills for when all the early rubbish is swept away and only the best of the best remain,” Sandilands said. “I can’t wait.”
Sandilands was a judge on the reality talent show from 2010 to 2013.”
The controversial KIIS 106.5 breakfast host shared the news with co-host Jackie O Henderson this morning, joined by fellow Australia’s Got Talent judge Sonia Kruger.
“It is a big deal,” Kruger said.
Sandilands responded, clarifying that he will be a guest judge for the grand final only.
“It is just a one off,” he said. “It is not a big deal. Good luck Sonia, I hope it goes well because I know it can be tedious when some 80-year-old grandma comes out and puts a lamp shade on their head and goes, ‘I am a lamp shade’, and then you have to sit there for three minutes.”
Back in 2010, Sandilands was joined on the judging panel alongside Bryan McFadden and Dannii Minogue.
This year, he will be joined by Kruger, as well as actors Olympia Valance and Shane Jacobson and celebrity chef Manu Feildel.
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