Kyle Sandilands has clashed with Sunrise host Natalie Barr during a live interview on the breakfast show on Thursday.
The radio star made an appearance on the Seven program with his co-host Jackie O Henderson to discuss Australian Idol.
During the interview, Kyle sarcastically praised Natalie on her coverage of their KIIS FM ‘ball drop’ contest last week which she claimed was dangerous.
‘I heard you dissing me. I heard that on Instagram,’ Natalie then said.
Kyle explained: ‘Well you made out as if we were throwing hand grenades out of the helicopter rather than foam balls.’
‘No I didn’t! That is fake news Kyle,’ an unimpressed Natalie hit back.
Kyle Sandilands has clashed with Sunrise host Natalie Barr during an awkward live interview on the breakfast show on Thursday
Natalie’s co-host Matt Shirvington then asked Kyle and Jackie O about radio ratings after their launch in Melbourne last year.
‘If you don’t like it, then don’t listen,’ Kyle said before Matt jokingly referred to their recent contest.
‘Or you can keep dropping the balls,’ Matt said.
‘Well the last time we saw balls like that, Shirvo was running for the Olympics,’ Kyle hit back referring to a famous image of Matt in a fabled lycra outfit as he bounced down the track at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia.
Matt abruptly ended the interview, interrupting Kyle and thanking him for joining them on the show.
It comes after Kyle slammed Sunrise host Natalie last week for claiming his ‘ball drop’ contest was dangerous.
The contest, a promotion for his Kyle and Jackie O radio show dubbed the $100k Ball Drop, saw 200 balls dropped from a helicopter over Elsternwick Park Tennis Centre in Melbourne.
100 hopefuls ran on to the court to grab two balls each that were labelled with a prize valued up to $100,000.
During the interview, Kyle (pictured) sarcastically praised Natalie on her coverage of their ‘ball drop’ contest last week
The contest, a promotion for his Kyle and Jackie O radio show dubbed the $100k Ball Drop, saw 200 balls dropped from a helicopter over Elsternwick Park Tennis Centre in Melbourne
But as the competition was gearing up, Kyle had some stern words for Natalie after she suggested on-air that the stunt was potentially dangerous.
She was discussing the stunt with reporter Andrew McCormack who was on the scene when she mentioned it had generated community backlash.
‘Were people worried a ball would hit them or go through the ceiling or something,’ Natalie asked the reporter.
‘Literally across the road is a whole lot of apartments,’ he replied. ‘They’ve had to change to foam balls.’
‘Won’t the blades, won’t the wind of the blades just go “whoop”?’ asked Barr, referring to the balls being thrown off trajectory.
‘If nothing else, it’s very interesting to watch,’ co-host Matt added.
After Kyle and co-star Jackie O Henderson played the Sunrise exchange on air, Jackie claimed the breakfast show was hoping something would go wrong.
‘We’ve got TV covering this and they’re only covering this because they want a disaster to happen,’ she said.
During the interview, Kyle also joked about a famous image of Matt in a fabled lycra outfit as he bounced down the track at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia
‘How thorough have we been with this, is my question.’
They also refuted the claim, made by McCormack in the segment about having to switch to foam balls due to safety concerns.
‘They just incorrectly said that we changed to foam balls,’ producer Bruno Boucher interjected. ‘That’s a lie.’
‘It was always foam balls,’ Kyle added. ‘We’re throwing foam balls out of a helicopter, not grenades.’
