‘A very different show’: Kyle Sandilands says Melbourne doubters don’t know him

Kyle Sandilands has hit back at doubters as his KIIS FM show gets set to hit Melbourne airwaves, saying even 3AW’s Neil Mitchell “threw in the towel” because he couldn’t compete.

Kyle Sandilands has hit back at the doubters of his Melbourne takeover, even claiming 3AW Mornings host Neil Mitchell retired because he couldn’t compete.

Sandilands and co-host Jackie “O” Henderson have yet to start on our airwaves after a much hyped announcement of their powerhouse KIIS FM show going national.

Sandilands said he hadn’t chosen a start date yet and gave a clip to Mitchell, who had said he wouldn’t listen to Kyle in a fit.

“A lot of people think, oh, they just talk about vaginas and we do a lot of vagina chat, don’t get me wrong, but we also do nice things,’’ Sandilands told fill-in host Byron Cooke on KIIS FM Monday morning.

Sandilands and co-host Jackie O are coming to Melbourne’s airwaves. Picture: Instagram

“We have a laugh. We do a very different show. Whatever you can currently hear in Melbourne, they’re all fine. There’s nothing wrong with all these broadcasters. It’s a great industry, the radio industry, but our show is very different. It is nothing like what you’ve really heard in breakfast radio before.

“Even the 3AW guy threw in the towel because he knew the writing was on the wall. I’m out. Neil Mitchell, yeah, he was like, oh shit, I can’t compete.”

Sandilands says his show with Jackie O is ‘very different’.

Sandilands described when to start in Melbourne as a “dilemma”.

“Byron, I haven’t chosen the date, this is the dilemma.

“A lot of people keep asking, when is this thing starting? A lot of people thought it would already be on. It was never going to be on now. I told the management of the network, when you move us into the new studios because we’re moving buildings in about four weeks and it’s going to be the state of the art, the greatest radio studio ever built.”

Sandilands said he was no pretender and the show was misunderstood.

“No, I understand that people are surprised, because I feel these are people that have not really listened or watched me,’’ he said.

“Or maybe, you know, I’m not in their orbit, but they’ve only read something in the Herald or something every now and then. And they’re no fans of mine... like if I give someone with cancer, you know, the trip of a lifetime to have the last family holiday with their family before they die. No one writes that. I’m just saying what’s what. I’m not a pretender. I don’t pretend to agree.”