KIIS FM host Kyle Sandilands reveals he paid $100k for private jet flight home

Kyle Sandilands has revealed he forked out a huge sum for a private jet flight while filming Australian Idol. Here is what went down.

Kyle Sandilands missed home so much while shooting Australian Idol that he chartered private jets to get back to his partner and bub in Sydney. The trips cost $100,000.

“Even while we were just filming all of the Australian Idol auditions, all the judges were like, ‘oh we are off to the Gold Coast and how much free time have we got?’,” Sandilands said on The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show.

“I had to hire a private jet out to fly out of the Gold Coast at 11.30pm at night so I could get home to see my child and fiancee.

“I only wanted to be with them and it cost like $100,000 flying here to Adelaide, the Gold Coast to Canberra. They were like, well there is the Idol budget but I didn’t want to wait in the Gold Coast for another day.”

Sandilands, 51, is a judge on the new look Australian Idol alongside Harry Connick Jr, Meghan Trainor and Amy Shark.

Australian Idol judges Kyle Sandilands, Meghan Trainor, Amy Shark and Harry Connick Jr.

Auditions were filmed around the country at the end of last year with the season premiering on Seven this week.

Sandilands and fiancee Tegan Kynaston welcomed the arrival of baby son, Otto, in August.

“I love it,” he said of fatherhood.

“We bath him together every single night, that is our thing regardless of where we are or what we are doing. We are at home at six o’clock for the bathing. I can just sit there and watch him.”

In the wide-ranging interview, Sandilands opened up about his “softer side”, which he said he shared mostly with his partner.

Kyle Sandilands and baby Otto as seen on social media.

Kyle Sandilands and partner Tegan as seen on social media.

He opened up about the well documented childhood trauma that he is yet to deal with.

“I am what I am. I am harsh, I am all of these things. Not many people see the soft side, people I’ve worked with, some of them see the soft side, my partner does, obviously,” he said.

“A lot of the harshness may have been a front early on in my life just to suck in all of the pain and push foreword. I didn’t know what I was going to do.

“I had no education, no nothing, no prospects, got fired from a few radio jobs because I didn’t know if the boss says hey don’t do that, you can’t confront him and start swearing and calling him names without getting fired. So I learnt that the slow way.”

Kyle Sandilands and baby Otto.

Kyle Sandilands on Jessica Rowe’s podcast. Picture: Supplied

He said seeing a professional was not something he had taken seriously.

“People have said, have you ever spoken to a therapist? And I though I didn’t really want to open Pandora’s box. Things are good now,” he said.

“The last thing I want to be doing is crying and praying to the moon. I feel pretty good now, whether it is dealt with or whether it will ever be dealt with … now my focus is on being a good dad, being a good husband soon. I don’t feel it affects me that much.

“If I get too emotional I will just have a joint and blow myself out.”

Again, showing a different side to his personality, Sandilands questioned Rowe, who has spoken publicly about her battles with depression.

“Do you think we are all damaged?” he asked.

“I think we are all damaged but do you think that is just living life?”