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Kyle Sandilands' 60 Minutes episode receives backlash

"Is this the best of Sunday night TV?" - by Alex Lilly
  • 25 May 2020

Kyle Sandilands and Channel Nine's 60 Minutes have come under fire for their latest segment after the shock jock was set to open up about a mystery illness.

Instead, Kyle's shock diagnosis was revealed to be a joke, resulting in an angry response from viewers.

WATCH BELOW: Kyle Sandilands addresses the health joke he made on 60 Minutes.

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"I love you and it's been wonderful," Kyle told co-host Jackie O in the previews before adding, "there's a condition I've been diagnosed with I haven't spoken to anyone about."

However when the episode came to air and Jackie asked if he was joking, Kyle replied with a simple "Yeah," followed by a grin.

“Why would you do that? I genuinely,” a tearful Jackie then says before adding, “You had me. You so had me. No that is emotionally mean. That was really cruel. A**hole."

 

 

Kyle and Jackie O

Kyle's joke has come under fire.

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Viewers slammed Kyle, Channel Nine and journalist Karl Stefanovic for the joke on social media.

"Stayed up to watch this and it was all just one big f***ing joke," one fan commented on Kyle and Jackie O's official Instagram account.

"Is this the best of Sunday night TV? Hopeless. Pure unadulterated s***e. @60Mins Karl and Kyle," another wrote on Twitter.

Media commentators also weighed in with journalist Peter Ford tweeting: "One thing for @kyleandjackieo to pull a prank about a life threatening illness. That’s on brand. Different thing for @60Mins to use it in a promo knowing they wouldn’t be delivering. That’s off brand."

"Anybody who has ever been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and had to tell loved ones, would not appreciate Kyle Sandiland’s ‘joke’ tonight," media personality and senator Derren Hynch also shared on social media.

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Shock jock Kyle has been slammed for his joke.

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However in a poignant video, Kyle addressed the backlash on his radio show and confessed that he had indeed been struggling with his mental health.

"Inside I'm very sad," he told Jackie on-air when he referred to how easily he welled up on the Channel Nine show.

"When you said 'I'm very worried about him,' a wave of emotion went through me and then I realised 'S*** I'm losing control here,' so I had to make up something as a joke," he explained.

"There is a great sadness in me that follows me around every day."

Kyle and Jackie O

Kyle opened up about the 60 Minutes joke on air.

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Kyle's co-host Jackie also spoke in the special about her 20-year professional relationship and how his divisive behaviour is "the hardest part" about working with him.

"He has this really beautiful side and then with that comes this other side that you think 'Why did you have to say that?'"

"I'm not his mother, it isn't always my responsibility to pull Kyle up. I mean, he's a big boy," she added. 

Kyle and Jackie O

Kyle and Jackie O have worked together for 20 years.

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The pair have been renowned for their on-air pranks, however Jackie admitted that their shock tactics have softened over the years.

“There were things we did that were terrible I think and if those things hadn’t have happened and if people hadn’t have shown a light on it, would we have just kept going with it," she told Karl Stefanovic.

Kyle and Jackie O

"I'm not his mother, it isn't always my responsibility to pull Kyle up."

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"Trying to stay number one is harder than getting to number one because you’re there and then you think, ‘Ok, what else should we do? We’ve already done this shocking segment. How can we do another shocking … Something even more shocking’.

“I think that’s where our thought process was back then and thank God we’ve learned from that and we don’t do that sort of stuff anymore.”

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