Kyle Sandilands hits back at axed radio duo: ‘Cry babies’

After slamming his “bully-like behaviour,” Lauren and Jase have copped a clapback from Kyle Sandilands, gloating about how much he’s rattled them.

Kyle Sandilands has hit back at radio rivals Jason Hawkins and Lauren Phillips, aka Jase and Lauren, after they complained about a Kyle and Jackie O bus crashing their listener event this week.

Jase and Lauren were famously axed from the breakfast slot on KIIS FM last year to make way for The Kyle & Jackie O Show’s entry into the Melbourne radio market.

The pair were quickly snapped up by rival radio station Nova, but this week fumed on-air when a promotional bus heralding Kyle and Jackie O’s Melbourne arrival pulled up at an event they were hosting.

Lauren called the stunt “pretty poor form,” while Jase said it was “ “bully-like behaviour” from their former employer: “It’s like, you shafted us.”

Kyle Sandilands is unfussed.

Lauren Phillips called it “bully-like behaviour.”

“We haven’t done anything wrong to them. They got rid of us, told us we weren’t good enough. And now they’re turning up to where we’re standing there with the people that love our show and listen to our show, and trying to sabotage that. It’s a bit tasteless,” Lauren fumed.

Speaking on-air this morning, Sandilands insisted that the bus had driven past “by accident” but said he was relishing the fact that he’d rattled Lauren and Jase.

“Someone told me that one of our competition stations in Melbourne is really having a cry about our marketing campaign,” he began. “Let’s have a listen to the cry babies, whinging and crying about how we’re bullying them by having a bus drive past their event.”

They then played audio of Lauren and Jase complaining to their listeners – this time with sad violin music and sobs added.

Sandilands said Sydney listeners would have “no idea” who Jase and Lauren are, describing them as “the Fitzy and Wippa of Melbourne. They’re there, but not that great.”

“All we did was drive past by accident, past a park where they were desperately shaking the hands of listeners and trying to buy their listeners,” Sandilands said.

“That’s fine, but don’t go carrying on on your show about us just driving past. That’s a little bit of a w**ker’s move, but I think the plan’s worked. I’m in their head!” he scoffed.

Kyle and Jackie O are making a splash with their entry into Melbourne. Picture: David Crosling

Jase and Lauren made their return to the airwaves in March this year, opening their first show at Nova by hitting out at how their former employer handled their firing.

“It was pretty personal for me, on a number of scales,” Jase said.

“I had good friends that were working behind the scenes in my management. I knew people at the old radio station who were quite high up. And yes, it was pretty personal.

“It was a really s**t feeling last year. It really was.”

Meanwhile, Kyle and Jackie O launched into Melbourne this week with a particularly crude opening show that included, in its first hour, discussion of “anal sex, incest, and freakishly long foreskins.”

At least one person was not a fan: Radio veteran Steve Price blasted the pair on The Project that night, addressing them directly to say: “That garbage you put to air this morning, sexualised rubbish, toxic, nobody should listen to it and you will be a massive failure in Melbourne.”

Originally published as Kyle Sandilands hits back at axed radio duo: ‘Cry babies’