Fed: Sandilands sacked from Idol, radio career up in air

AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2009
Fed: Sandilands sacked from Idol, radio career up in air

KYLE SANDILANDS has been dumped as a judge on Australian Idol .. while the future of
his radio job is still uncertain following outrage over a radio stunt.

Network Ten programming boss DAVID MOTT has this afternoon announced the station has
sacked SANDILANDS from the singing talent tv show .. which SANDILANDS has been a judge
on since 2005.

It follows outrage over 2Day FM's breakfast program last week when a 14-year-old girl
was strapped to a lie detector and asked on air by SANDILANDS about her sexual history
.. during which the teenager revealed she had been raped when she was 12.

Mr MOTT says Australian Idol is very much a family program and that SANDILANDS' radio
persona had become too controversial for the show.

The future of SANDILANDS' top rating breakfast show with co-presenter JACKIE O is still
uncertain .. after it was put on hold indefinitely.

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