Sandilands left listeners gobsmacked after making a series of sexist, homophobic, crude and lewd comments.
Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O remain on top of the FM ratings.And in the process, Sandilands, who appeared on the back of a float in the 2018 Sydney Mardi Gras, has deeply offended the marginalised groups he claims to have long championed, including gay men, who are confronting potentially the greatest health crisis and stigma to impact them since the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 1980s.
He described the virus as “the big gay disease” and that “it’s only the gays getting it”, before asking a gay caller to the show if he was fearful of getting it because of his sexuality, asking if he’d “seen the dirty scabs that everyone gets”? “Right now, thousands of gay and bisexual men are doing the right thing by monitoring for monkeypox symptoms, to look after their health and that of their partners. Over the next few months, we will be asking these men to come forward to be vaccinated.A spokesman for the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
But it was only one of several low points in Tuesday’s show, which also included Sandilands repeatedly referring to a sexual encounter with “two blonde rats” in a hotel room in Brisbane while the then prime ministerHenderson nervously giggled and told Sandilands he was “disgusting”, but her co-host continued undeterred, referring to the encounter as “like filling up two cars at the petrol bowser, but you weren’t sure which car to fill up first”.
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