‘Embarrassed’ Kyle Sandilands explains on-air fight with Jackie o

A sheepish Kyle Sandilands returned to his radio show today, revealing what was really going on in yesterday’s meltdown.

Kyle Sandilands has returned to the Kyle and Jackie O show this morning after his “embarrassing” on-air meltdown yesterday, apologising to his co-host for calling her an “idiot” and admitting it was a bit of a “carry-on”.

“Hello Kyle,” co-host Jackie O greeted him carefully at the start of Thursday’s show. “Good to have you back. How are you feeling today?”

“Feeling pretty good, yeah … sort of,” a sheepish Sandilands responded.

“Are you OK over there? You look like you’re going to cry,” Jackie told him.

“Oh, it’s a bit embarrassing, yesterday’s carry-on,” he admitted.

“I felt very justified, but I did get my back up a bit – but that happens among friends.”

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Sandilands opened up about his meltdown. Picture: Twitter

Jackie O accepted his apology for calling her an “idiot”.

Sandilands revealed that following his on-air tirade – during which he called his co-host an “idiot” and berated newsreader Brooklyn Ross for running the Gladys Berejiklian/Scott Morrison bombshell text leak story – he had been contacted by reporters and TV stations for comment.

He admitted that the coverage of his tirade made him “look stupid” – and that he hadn’t realised how long it had gone for.

“I was reading an article yesterday, and it said I went on a 12-minute meltdown. Was it 12 minutes? Of me continually screaming and carrying on?” Sandilands asked his co-hosts.

Despite his apologies, Sandilands insisted he had “every right” to dictate what news runs within the breakfast show.

“I did notice a few people comment, ‘what right does Kyle have to decide what the news is?’,” he said.

“Well, every right, because I run the show. I’m not an employee... I don’t work for anyone.”

Sandilands also revealed he’d been “out of my mind” with anger when he drove out of the KIIS building.

“I was so angry when I was leaving here, I did a huge burnout out the driveway, it was wet so the whole car was going sideways... and I didn’t care if I died,” Sandilands joked.

“I was out of my mind.”

It comes after the furious radio host stormed out of the Kyle and Jackie O Show minutes into Wednesday morning’s episode, labelling his co-host an “idiot” and ordering her to “do the show by yourself”.

The Gladys Berijiklian text story sparked the on-air fight. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Newsreader Brooklyn Ross. Picture: Christian Gilles

Sandilands went on an extraordinary 12-minute rant after he, Jackie O and newsreader Brooklyn Ross opened today’s show by discussing the news that former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian allegedly once called Prime Minister Scott Morrison a “horrible, horrible person” in a text message.

Berejiklian says she has “no recollection” of sending the message.

“This is the biggest news in Australia, and it’s all over nothing. So what if the ex-Premier called the prime minister a horrible, horrible person? I’ve called everyone here an effing C in text messages. I wouldn’t be surprised if Gladys was just pacifying whatever loser Minister she was talking to,” Sandilands began.

“This is not real news. Don’t make up fictitous bulls**t drama over nothing.”

Jackie O took a counter argument, pointing out the newsworthiness of a state Premier allegedly slamming the Prime Minister – which further infuriated Sandilands. “We don’t have to run around every time some c***sucker from the ABC asks a question,” he said, apparently a mistaken reference to Network 10 political editor Peter van Onselen, who posed a question about the alleged texts to the PM on Tuesday.

“I’m angry. This is the way the world has been ruined – by d***heads on the news turning these things into bulls**t moments,” he said, his expletives apparently to fast for the show’s censors to catch.

“Can I tell you why we care?” offered Ross.

“Yeah, because you’re all f**kin’ lazy loser journalists and you all type the same s**t,” Sandilands shot back.

“You’re so angry,” sighed Jackie O, as the trio continued discussing whether or not the story was newsworthy – a topic that continued to infuriate Sandilands.

“You just show how dumb you all are, you idiots. You’re being followed around by c**kheads,” he told his colleagues.

“Oh my god, what’s up with you this morning?” asked Jackie O.

“I don’t think you understand what I’m saying – I think you’re just all real dumb,” he said.

“I’m just asking you why you’re so angry,” she told him.

Newsreader Ross again offered his opinion about why the story was newsworthy – but a furious Kyle interjected and ordered him out of the studio.

“Just turn your mic off (expletive). You’re finished! Get out!”

“Are you serious? I don’t understand,” said Jackie O.

“I’m going home, F**K you. Do the show by yourself, what a f**king show it’ll be,” said Sandilands, storming out of the studio.

“OK, I think we’ll take a short break, because I’m not even sure what happened. Did something happen before I got here? Was it all good?” Jackie O asked.

“I love him so much … I just wish he didn’t get so worked up,” said Ross.