Why Wil Anderson has banned Kyle Sandilands from his podcast, Wilosophy

Wil Anderson has interviewed dozens of high-profile Aussies – but he refuses to invite the controversial radio host onto his hit podcast, Wilosophy.

Wil Anderson has interviewed dozens of high-profile guests on his hit podcast over the past eight years – but there’s one big name he refuses to feature: Kyle Sandilands.

In an interview with news.com.au’s I’ve Got News For You podcast, the comedian, 48, revealed that he has rejected offers to turn his Wilosophy podcast into TV interview show because he doesn’t want to be forced to chat to certain controversial guests by network bosses.

“I love that I can ask whatever questions that I want to ask and talk about whatever it is that I want to talk about and have whoever on that I want to have on,” he said about his podcast.

“(But) if you’re interviewing someone who has an agenda, and you’re just asking them questions, you become a platform for elevating those ideas and spreading those ideas more widely. Because if you can’t interrogate them ruthlessly … it doesn’t work just for the interviewer to have no agenda.”

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Wil Anderson and KIIS FM presenter Kyle Sandilands. Picture: ABC; Justin Lloyd

That’s the reason, according to Anderson, that well-known figures such as conservative commentator Andrew Bolt or KIIS FM host Kyle Sandilands, will never be invited onto his show – “despite the fact there are a lot of people who contact me (saying), ‘I’d love to hear you talk to Kyle’.”

“I don’t want to, I don’t want to have those conversations, because my natural interviewing style is to want to like somebody, to find the best in somebody,” he told IGNFY host Andrew Bucklow.

“That’s what the show (Wilosophy) is about. It’s a curiosity show. If I had … you know, any of those people on, I would want to do the same thing with them.”

Anderson explained that if he took Wilosophy to a TV network, he’d be under “pressure” to chat to people he wasn’t comfortable with.

“If I take my show to a network, that’s the pressure you suddenly get. I individually curate who I have on my show, at the end of the day, no one chooses those guests but me. Most of the time, I contact them... it is very much an artisanal, homemade podcast.”

Anderson also joked that Sandilands wasn’t exactly in need of extra publicity.

Kyle Sandilands and his fiancee Tygan Kynaston. Picture: Instagram

Wil prefers to curate his own guest list. Picture: Smart Daily

“I just think Kyle is great at generating his own publicity, that’s fine, he doesn’t need a hand from me. He’s on news.com.au every second day, he’s fine,” Anderson joked.

“He doesn’t need to be on every day, because he said something on my podcast as well.”

Sandilands responded to Anderson’s comments on his KIIS FM radio show this morning and suggested the comedian might be “jealous” of his success.

What's ACTUALLY up @Wil_Anderson, tell us the truth! 👀#WillAnderson#KyleSandilands#KJshowpic.twitter.com/eJqiqwiinT

— Kyle and Jackie O (@kyleandjackieo) February 21, 2022

The Wilosophy podcast, whic was launched in 2014, attracts millions of downloads every year and has featured well-known guests including Osher Günsberg, Tim Minchin, Em Rusciano, Judith Lucy, Todd Sampson and Jimmy Carr.