Amanda Keller slams Marty Sheargold on-air: ‘Makes me sick’

Amanda Keller labelled ousted radio host Marty Sheargold as “privileged, outdated and boorish” in an impassioned on-air spray today.

Amanda Keller has unleashed on fellow radio veteran Marty Sheargold, the morning after he parted ways with employer Triple M over his comments over the Matildas women’s national football team.

Speaking to co-host Jonesy on their GOLD 101.7 show this morning, Keller said that Sheargold’s comments “make me feel sick.”

In comments that quickly went viral this week, Sheargold said the professional sports team reminded him of “year 10 girls” and said he would “rather hammer a nail” through his penis than watch women’s sport.

Further recent comments also surfaced, in which he claimed on-air to a female colleague that endometriosis was a “made up” health condition.

“This embarrasses everyone who works on radio because it gives everyone a chance to say commercial radio is filled with old dinosaurs,” Keller began.

Marty Sheargold outburst made Amanda Keller feel “sick.”

“This thinking, this way of thought is so privileged, outdated and boorish.”

She noted that Triple M has honed a reputation as being a home for both sport and comedy: “Well, he’s pissed over both. He really has. And he’s punched down at women.”

She labelled his comments “outdated, dumb, disrespectful and incorrect,” and noted that while radio broadcasters are paid to voice their opinions on-air, “if our network or if our audience say too far, then they’re the arbiters of what we do. And people here have said too far.”

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Keller further slammed the industry model – “particularly at Triple M” – of pairing “boorish” male comedians with female co-hosts “whose job it is to say, ‘Oh stop it.’ That is so boring.”

She reminded listeners that Sheargold himself had admitted he became a “giant A-hole” when co-hosting a breakfast show with fellow radio stalwart Fifi Box some years ago. The pair hosted The Shebang on Triple M in the early noughties.

“He said, ‘I battered that woman down. Show after show. And I don’t blame Fifi for wanting to get out.’ This is what he said at the time,” she claimed.

“How many chances do these men get?” Keller asked of Sheargold (pictured). Picture: Supplied/Triple M

“And here we are again. How many chances do these men get? I’m hoping that the tide has turned. The outpouring of horror has been so loud.”

Later on in the show, Sheargold’s former colleague Gus Worland joined Jonesy and Amanda to discuss the scandal, praised Triple M’s decision to part ways with the comedian.

Worland, who worked Triple M’s drive shift for three years before Sheargold replaced him, said the comedian had skirted “close to the line many, many times” over the years.

“Firstly, he was wrong yesterday in the information that he gave out. Secondly, the way that he did it made us all feel really, really sad. And I’m glad that they [Triple M] made the decision to give him the flick. The apology was never going to be enough, and we just need to change the way that we look at things at Triple M,” he said.

Radio host Gus Worland said he was “glad” Triple M took swift action.

Worland said he told management some years ago that the station had a “responsibility, talking to so many men every single day, to actually change what it takes to be a man. And we have to get away from these 1980s and 90s thoughts and get into the real world and understand that. And that’s our responsibility.”

Triple M and Sheargold released joint statements late on Wednesday confirming he is leaving Triple M, effective immediately.

“Triple M and Marty Sheargold have mutually agreed to part ways,” Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) chief content officer Dave Cameron said in the statement.

“Right now, it’s clear this is a moment for reflection and review. Triple M, and the wider SCA network, will continue to take all necessary steps to support staff.”

In the same statement, Sheargold said: “Having mutually agreed to part ways with the Triple M Network, I fully understand the gravity of my comments.

“I’d like to sincerely apologise to the Matildas and the broader organisation. I would also like to thank my immediate team for their hard work and apologise for the situation they now find themselves in.”

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