Only one yr into their $100 million 10-year contract, the hasty finish to The Kyle and Jackie O Present has left listeners reeling.
The 27-year-strong co-hosts’ time on air collectively ended abruptly practically three weeks in the past, and it is nonetheless unclear how the falling-out will probably be settled.
Each Jackie ‘O’ Henderson and Kyle Sandilands have launched statements, with the previous additionally reportedly contemplating authorized motion towards employer ARN for wrongful termination.
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Here is a timeline of how the continued radio drama, described as “the largest, most consequential bust-up in Australian media – ever”, has unfolded.
Friday, February 20
All of it started with an on-air argument the place Sandilands criticised Henderson for discussing the beginning chart and astrological chart of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
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Sandilands shut Henderson down, saying he felt she’d been performing like a “drug addict” and was “off with the fairies.”
“Your fixation on this has made you nearly unworkable,” he mentioned.
“You are not doing the remainder of the job and everybody on this constructing has talked about it to me.”
Henderson, clearly taken again by his criticism, mentioned he was being “imply and nasty.”
After the confrontation, she instructed Sandilands, “there are such a lot of issues that you do not do, and I’d by no means convey them up, and I’d by no means say what individuals say.”
She instructed him that if she was so “unworkable”, he ought to “get another person.”
Monday, February 23
The next Monday, Henderson didn’t return to work.
Throughout that morning’s episode of The Kyle and Jackie O Present, Sandilands instructed listeners his co-host can be taking a break for “a few days” to “collect her ideas”.
Nevertheless, on Tuesday, February 24 it was introduced she wouldn’t be returning to the present for the remainder of the week, and Sandilands mentioned she would be a part of him on air once more quickly.
Tuesday, March 3
Then got here the bombshell: ARN, which operates KIIS FM, launched a press release revealing Henderson had instructed the community she “can not proceed to work with Mr Kyle Sandilands.”
“ARN has terminated the providers settlement with Henderson Media Pty Ltd, below which Ms Henderson presents the Kyle and Jackie O present,” the March 3 assertion continued.
The community additionally claimed Sandilands’ behaviour throughout the February 20 present was “an act of significant misconduct” and mentioned he had been suspended and “given 14 days to treatment this breach”, with The Kyle and Jackie O Present taken off-air within the interim.
Wednesday, March 4
Kent “Smallzy” Small stepped in to host KIIS FM’s breakfast present, and opened with a press release primarily repeating ARN’s announcement.
“My identify is Smallzy, and I’ve obtained a press release that I have been requested to learn earlier than we begin this morning,” he mentioned.
“So for our KIIS listeners, we have some necessary information for you. Jackie has given discover that she will be able to not proceed to work on the present with Kyle on breakfast. As such, Jackie has formally left the present.
“Kyle has been given 14 days to treatment a critical breach of contract in respect of the present. He’ll not be on air throughout this time. If that doesn’t occur, that contract will probably be terminated.
“That is what I’ve been instructed and requested to learn you.”
Friday, March 6
Henderson broke her silence with a press release on March 6, revealing she was “deeply saddened by the occasions of the previous week.”
“There was quite a lot of hypothesis and misinformation about my departure from the present,” she mentioned.
“I need to make one necessary level very clear: I didn’t give up or resign.
“I’m deeply saddened by the occasions of the previous week and the opportunity of the present ending. This has come as a shock to me, because it has to everybody else.
“At this stage, I’m unable to say something additional, as I’m addressing this by means of the suitable authorized channels,” Henderson added.
Tuesday, March 10
Sandilands then launched a press release of his personal, claiming “[I] mentioned issues I want I had mentioned otherwise.”
“I despatched Jackie a message telling her I used to be sorry for something I mentioned that did not go down properly, that I really like her and take care of her, and that I may have dealt with it higher,” he mentioned.
“Jackie and I’ve labored collectively for over 25 years. She is likely one of the most necessary individuals in my life. The concept that our partnership may finish like that is devastating to me.”
Sandilands mentioned ARN had instructed him to halt contact together with his co-host within the wake of their on-air conflict.
“The reality is that ARN terminated Jackie’s contract on the identical day it accused me of a breach. It suspended me from work,” he added.
“All of this occurred whereas I used to be being instructed to take a seat quietly and say nothing. That’s not a real course of.”
He acknowledged he was nonetheless “dedicated” to his 10-year $100 million contract with ARN.
Wednesday, March 11
A supply near Sandilands claimed the 2 had now made contact with one another, telling the Sydney Morning Herald, “Each see it as it’s: ARN leaping on the alternative to try to lower your expenses.”
Friday, March 13
Henderson is reportedly contemplating authorized motion towards ARN Media following her shock exit from the Kyle & Jackie O Present.
The Monetary Assessment stories she is contemplating exploring a wrongful termination lawsuit within the wake of ARN’s assertion to the ASX, which urged she had walked away from her contract at KIIS FM.
Sources instructed the publication Henderson alleges ARN wrongfully terminated her contract and that she was not supplied one other present.
Now
ARN’s therapy of the fallout has left leisure professionals speculating whether or not the corporate is happy to finish the co-stars’ eye watering contracts.
Although they might not ever work collectively on KIIS FM once more, each Henderson and Sandilands are mentioned to have promising podcast future to fall again on.
