Furious Kyle storms out after on-air fight with Jackie O

Kyle Sandilands labelled his longtime co-host an “idiot” and abandoned the show in an extraordinary rant minutes into today’s episode.

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

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.”

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Kyle and Jackie O on-air earlier this week.

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 yesterday.

“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.

Kyle insisted the alleged Berejiklian texts were a non-story. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

“You’re finished,” Kyle told newsreader Brooklyn Ross, before storming out himself. Picture: Christian Gilles

“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.

Kyle’s walkout happened in the show’s first segment this morning, at around 6:15am, and he remained off-air for the remainder at the show. At 9am, Jackie O explained his absence, replaying the confrontation to listeners.

“You may have noticed Kyle’s not here today... it all escalated for some reason, and it ended in Kyle walking out,” she said.

“We hope Kyle’s OK... he’ll be back tomorrow.”