Kyle Sandilands made a crude comment about Natalie Barr’s appearance on his new show on Tuesday following his confrontational interview with the Sunrise host a week ago.
Last Tuesday, Barr questioned the shock jock, 55, about controversial comments made throughout his radio career and how they might affect his son Otto in the future last week.
Sandilands said today that he had considered responding to Barr with criticisms about her physical appearance during the interview, but refrained out of ‘respect for women’.
‘You know what I was going to say – but I didn’t, because I have respect for women?’ Sandilands began.
‘I was going to say, “It’s strange you’re bringing up my son when you’re sitting here with these scaly legs that clearly need some sort of Palmer’s Butter put on them.”
‘They were very scaly.’
Kyle Sandilands made a crude comment about Natalie Barr’s appearance on his new subscription show on Tuesday following his confrontational interview with the Sunrise host last week
The shock jock, 55, went head-to-head with Barr during a tense sit-down on the breakfast TV show, as she questioned him about controversial comments made throughout his radio career and how they might affect his son Otto in the future
Sandilands bristled last week when she asked if he ‘would be happy’ for his son Otto, three, ‘to listen back to your broadcasts when he’s older’.
‘Yeah, I don’t care. Have you ever heard the show?’ he hit back.
‘I know you’re on at the same time, but I think you have a dramatised imagination of what the show was.’
She further grilled him: ‘Over the years, you’ve been criticised for comments you’ve made about women, jokes about disability, remarks about the Holocaust, broadcasting private conversations.
‘When you look back, which I’m sure you have in the last few weeks, what do you genuinely regret? If anything.’
‘It’s not really a regret,’ Sandilands responded.
‘A lot of these things have been perceived to have been bad. Some are genuinely bad or mistakes or stupid things that I’ve said.
‘Other things can be twisted once it gets to AM radio and the whole narrative, the reality of what things are changes when it gets to talk back.
‘They sort of take away all the joining words to make it sound more dramatic. Sometimes it’s fake. Sometimes it’s real. But I just take it as a learning lesson.
On Tuesday, Sandilands said he had considered responding to Barr with criticisms about her physical appearance during the interview, but refrained out of ‘respect for women’
‘You know what I was going to say – but I didn’t, because I have respect for women?’ Sandilands began. ‘I was going to say, “It’s strange you’re bringing up my son when you’re sitting here with these scaly legs that clearly need some sort of Palmer’s Butter put on them.” They were very scaly’
‘That’s all I do. You take, you learn, you realise who you’ve offended. You realise what you’ve said and why it was offensive.
‘Then you just get back up the next day and keep working. I’m certainly not having conversations with myself in the mirror or big reflections.
‘That’s what I do. I’ve done it for 35 years, and more often than not, some things do offend people. But [The Kyle & Jackie O Show] was really a comedy show.’
‘They’re really just jokes,’ he added.
‘And then someone is offended. It only takes one person to be offended in this day and age and then the whole world has to stop.’
Sandilands later went on a rant about the interview with Barr as he left the Sunrise studios.
He said: ‘Just leaving Sunrise. Obviously, I’ve dropped a grenade in there.
‘Daring to question Nat about, “So, you’re horrible to women, and handicapped people, and anyone with any sort of sadness.” No, I’m not. That’s bulls***.’
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