Kyle and Jackie O have addressed their recent “hissy fit” that saw them walk out of the studio in the middle of their live radio show.
The pair returned to the airwaves on Monday morning, after their show was “dumped” halfway through Friday’s show, resulting in a dramatic walk out.
On Monday, Kyle said, “Good morning … Well, we’ve made it back, who would’ve thought?” before admitting he’d been told he had been “testy” lately by his manager, Bruno Bouchet.
“Bruno did say, maybe you’ve been a bit grumpy, you do have a new child and you’ve been working 20 hours a day.”
Kyle then brought up Jackie’s appearance at the Mediaweek annual Power lunch on Saturday in the wake of their storm-out, at which it was revealed she and her longtime co-host had topped the publication’s inaugural Star Power 25 list, a countdown of this country’s “top 25 most powerful talent on screen and on air.”
“How great did Jackie look after doing her ‘power move’ after we left the show on Friday in a hissy fit?” Kyle said, before saying to Jackie, “It was nice of you to support me for once and walk out together.”
“But I understood why you were doing it, because we were both very confused,” she replied.
“Out of all the stars, we were number one – what a day to win it,” Kyle added of the Mediaweek accolade.
During the beginning of the show on Monday, Kyle attempted to summarise Friday’s drama, explaining that “there was some confusion between management and mixed signals, wishy-washy back-end signals”, before declaring, “Who cares what a team of management thinks? I don’t care what they think.”
Newsreader Brooklyn Ross then asked if it was “all smoothed over”, to which Kyle replied emphatically, “No, no it’s not smoothed over.”
But Jackie disagreed, saying “Yes it is, don’t lie! The thing is, it wasn’t even that big a deal in the first place.”
The drama began on Friday when the pair complained about being “dumped” by their in-studio censor while interviewing Alan Jones.
A fairly innocent 15 minute chat with Jones saw the trio discussing Jones’ favourite restaurants, cars and homes, before listeners suddenly heard the prerecorded alert informing them the audio had been “dumped”.
After a very lengthy song and advertisement break, a frustrated Kyle and Jackie O returned without Jones.
Explaining what had happened, Kyle told listeners they were going into “weird territory” and “comparing cars and homes” before the show got dumped.
As the two hosts continued to figure out what went wrong, their broadcast got dumped again.
Kyle then decided, after seeking advice from his personal lawyer, to pull himself off the air as Jackie joined him in the walk out.
Kyle said that he would be back for Monday’s show – “and if I’m not back Monday, it didn’t work out well for me.”
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