Kyle Sandilands has revealed some of his wildest celebrity encounters during his 24-year radio career.
Joining KIIS FM’s Will & Woody on Monday, the radio titan revealed his most surprising confrontations with some of the world’s biggest stars.
Kyle, 52, said one of the worst encounters was many years ago when he and co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson were interviewing American funnyman Will Ferrell.
While on air, Jackie kept mispronouncing Will Ferrell’s name as Will Pharell, to which his publicist later responded with a scathing attack on Jackie in the green room that brought her to tears.
‘I walked out and I heard the aftermath and saw Jackie and I just…verbally threatened all of them. I said to Will: “you, your d***head publicist, get the f out of here,”‘ Kyle recalled.
Kyle Sandilands (pictured) has revealed some of his wildest celebrity encounters during his long radio career
As a consequence of Kyle’s dressing down, his show was blacklisted by the publicist for many years afterwards, costing it some big celebrity interviews.
Kyle also revealed an awkward moment when he accused Ricky Gervais of passing gas on air.
‘We had him on Zoom and he sat down in the chair and we were recording and I heard [a fart noise] and I went, “did you just fart?”‘ Kyle said.
Kyle said one of the worst encounters was many years ago when he and co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson were interviewing American funnyman Will Ferrell (pictured)
While on air, Jackie O (pictured) kept mispronouncing Will Ferrell’s name as Will Pharell, to which his publicist later responded with a scathing attack on Jackie in the green room that brought her to tears
‘And he went, “no, it’s a chair.” And I went, “oh, I don’t think so. It sounds more like a fart.” And he started bumping up and down on the chair to try and recreate it.
‘And I said, “just own up…you know, you’re a big boy. You’ve dropped your guts. You know, like we’ve all done it.”
‘And he was protesting, “oh, I did not. I’m telling you.” I said, “just like, get over that, we all know, we all heard it,”‘ the shock jock said as hosts Will and Woody laughed at his story.
The radio star then reflected on how jaded he has become meeting celebrities over the years.
‘You meet everyone and usually most of them are pretty disappointing.’
‘Some of your heroes come in, you’re like, oh, you’re a flop in real life. You’ve got no personality. It’s quite disappointing,’ he said.
Kyle also revealed an awkward moment when he accused Ricky Gervais of passing gas on air
