Kyle and Jackie O is OVER! Henderson is SACKED and Sandilands suspended as KIIS FM radio show is left in tatters

The Kyle and Jackie O show has collapsed amid a high-profile feud between hosts Jackie ‘O’ Henderson and Kyle Sandilands. 

KIIS FM’s parent company ARN announced on Tuesday that Henderson’s $100 million contract has been terminated after she told executives she ‘cannot continue to work with Mr Kyle Sandilands’ any longer. 

Sandilands has been suspended and it is understood that he will not present Wednesday’s episode of the radio show. 

He will remain off the air for as much as 14 days while ARN awaits his response to what it deemed a ‘breach’ of his contract with the network. 

ARN provided written notice to Sandilands stating that it considers this behaviour during the show on February 20 ‘an act of serious misconduct which is in breach of ARN’s services agreement with Quasar Media’.

Sandilands has been given 14 days to ‘remedy’ the breach, or else also faces termination. 

The KIIS breakfast show will be taken off-air immediately, with ‘interim arrangements made for the show.’  

Daily Mail has reached out to Henderson and Sandilands for comment. 

Kyle and Jackie signed a 10-year deal with Australian Radio Network (ARN) in 2023, and have eight years left on that contract.

They were paid a reported $200 million in that landmark negotiation and earned approximately $47,000 per episode.   

Henderson, 51, has been AWOL from the Kyle & Jackie O show since Friday, 20 February, after she was involved in a fiery on-air clash with co-host Kyle Sandilands over her alleged lack of ‘focus’ in her work. 

The shock jock, 54, started Tuesday’s Kyle & Jackie O show by revealing that Jackie, would return to the airwaves ‘at some stage’ – however, that was not to be.  

On Monday, it was announced that Jackie’s return to the airwaves has been pushed back another week.

Jackie took a leave of absence following the altercation, and was expected to return to The Kyle & Jackie O show on March 2.

 

However, during Monday’s broadcast Kyle revealed to listeners that Jackie would be taking another week off.

Speaking briefly about her absence, the radio titan said he had no more information and that the popular radio star would return to the airwaves ‘at some stage’.

Kyle dismissed reports his long-running radio show was coming to an end after he was absent from last Thursday’s show.

Speaking on Friday’s broadcast, he addressed headlines suggesting he had been pulled from the airwaves, insisting his absence was simply due to a sick day.

The presenter explained he had been up through the night caring for his unwell baby.

‘I haven’t vanished, everyone,’ he said at the start of the show.

‘According to the newspapers, The Kyle & Jackie O show was over, and I vanished. It just goes to show you can never believe what you read in any of the newspapers.

‘I feel they may have had their phones cut off; no one even rang to check.’

 

Kyle said his three-year-old son Otto had been coughing throughout the night.

‘It was a hard night [with the baby]; every time he coughed I sort of [woke up], then I had a headache,’ he said.

He added it was ‘hard enough’ to front the show on a good day, let alone after a night of ‘broken sleep’.

Kyle previously expressed his ‘regret’ over the fiery on-air clash that left Jackie in tears.

An emotional Jackie said she was deeply ‘offended’ by his brutal comments during the clash.

Last Wednesday, Sandilands admitted he wished he had handled things differently.

‘I obviously upset her. Maybe, in hindsight, I shouldn’t have said it on the air. But we say a lot of things on the air here,’ he said.

‘It was never meant to hurt her feelings and obviously it did. I regret hurting her feelings. No one wants to hurt someone. Especially someone you care for.

 

‘I don’t really know. The show is just ploughing ahead anyway. I’m just leaving this up to management,’ he added.

Kyle went on to say he just wanted to be back on the air with everyone happy, adding: ‘I want her to be happy and enjoy it. I also want the same thing.’

He then joked he didn’t care if any of the other producers or staff members were happy because he would ‘swap them all out in a heartbeat’ for his co-star.

Jackie broke down in tears when the pair were discussing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Kyle got angry at her when she proceeded to read out the disgraced royal’s birth chart.

He lambasted his co-star, claiming that her love for astrology was affecting her work.

When Jackie attempted to defend herself and accused him of launching an attack on her, he stated he was only expressing the ‘facts’.