Kyle Dalton Sandilands (born 10 June 1971) is an Australian radio host, shock jock and television personality.

Sandilands has become known for publicly expressing homophobic, sexist, ableist, slut-shaming, misogynistic and bullying views and for his controversial on-air stunts.

[1] This has led to companies removing their advertisements, findings of serious breaches[2] of the Industry Codes of Practice and Guidelines, and to his firing from Australian Idol.

[6] In 1999, he moved to Sydney, and commenced at 2Day FM as host of the Hot30 Countdown, replacing "Ugly Phil O'Neil", a former husband of Jacqueline Henderson (Jackie O).

Sandilands attributes his radio career taking off to being told by then Group Program Director Jeff Allis to "do whatever you want, just win".

[13] He returned to his radio show on 18 August 2009 but was suspended on 9 September 2009 due to on-air comments relating to Magda Szubanski.

In an attempt to boost poor ratings and to promote the 2007 season of Australian Idol, Sandilands entered the Gold Coast compound and was due to conduct his radio program in house on that Monday morning.

[28] However, after a heated verbal exchange with Big Brother, Sandilands reportedly required anti-nausea injections for migraines and began vomiting every 30 minutes.

The ratings for the launch of the 2008 series were the lowest in the show's history, and Network Ten ultimately confirmed that it would not continue past the current season.

When Cook tried to make light of the question, Sandilands then made a joke about her weight, saying, "You're a belly full of laughs".

In 2017, Sandilands narrated the reality television program Meet the Hockers, a show similar to Pawn Stars, which he also produced.

The reality show is set in a court room with Sandilands passing judgement across a whole range of real life cases.

[38] In July and August 2005, Sandilands was accused of "cooking the charts" by giving airplay to "Ooh Ahh" (a song by his then-girlfriend, Tamara Jaber).

[44] On 29 July 2009, a radio segment involved a distressed teenager who was asked to discuss her sexual history live on air, and in front of her mother.

In the following days, media commentators, psychologists and rape crisis workers condemned the stunt while expressing deep concern for the well-being of the teenager.

[22] A Network Ten spokesman said of Sandilands' firing: "Idol has remained a family-focused show, even more so this year with the 6.30pm Sunday timeslot.

Network Ten had held crisis talks with advertisers in the days prior to his firing amid concerns Sandilands would damage their brands.

Further, following a great deal of consideration and having consulted Jackie O and all stakeholders, Austereo has formed the view that it is in the interest of all parties for the [program] to go into recess until we have completed an across-the-networks review of the principals [sic] and protocols of our interaction with our audience.In 2009, commented live on air on Australian comedian and actress Magda Szubanski's weight and her work with a weight loss company.

Live on air on 2Day FM's Kyle and Jackie O Show, he was quoted saying "...Magda could have another run out of it ... She could get another season out of them, easy ... she's not skinny".

[49] Szubanski's family is of Polish origin - a country where many of the worst Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, were located.

[52] In 2006, Sandilands referred to an Australian Idol contestant as a "mong", a term that has been used in the past as a label for people with Down syndrome.

The former panellist openly admitted to judging Australian Idol contestants’ future success based on their weight.

In 2006, he told 16-year-old Jessica Mauboy to “lose the jelly belly” and warned Kate DeAraugo to work on her “tuck shop lady arms”.

[60] Among other misogynistic comments over his career, the most notable was in 2022 involving TV personality and radio host Abbie Chatfield who called out Kyle and her fellow The Bachelor Australia alum Brittany Hockley for slut-shaming her on-air[61] with comments relating to US Rapper Yung Gravy appearing on her podcast It's a Lot.

[6]On 26 September 2008, Sandilands married pop singer Tamara Jaber and the couple shared a house in St Ives, located in Sydney's Upper North Shore.

[67] On 13 August 2015, Sandilands took his shirt off during a live broadcast of The Morning Show, after claiming he has been "fat-shamed" by the media, and afterwards admitted "I think I'm going to have to do something about the weight.

[68] In February 2022, Sandilands and his partner Tegan announced they were expecting a baby,[69] and had the gender reveal for Otto during a cruise on Sydney Harbour as two planes streaked coloured smoke overhead.

[70] Before their son's birth, Sandilands announced that they were naming his radio partner Jackie O as Otto's godmother, surprising her in their studio off-air.

[70] On 11 August 2022 Kyle Sandilands became a father for the first time, when his fiancée Tegan Kynaston gave birth to their son Otto.

[73] Notably, the groomsmen consisted of former nightclub owner John Ibrahim and convicted drug dealer Simon Main.