Jackie O is fat.
She is so freaking fat that once a week, every week, she stands on a scale in her radio studio and announces her number to the nation’s largest breakfast audience.
Invariably her co-host, Kyle Sandilands, then taunts her about her fatness. Her laziness. Her inability to lose the weight that she gained when she had her daughter Kitty, um, five years ago.
“You haven’t just fallen off the wagon,” he told Jackie yesterday in KISS FM’s “Fat Club” segment, when she admitted that she had gained a kilo, after losing three.
“You have been dragged across the desert by a rope. This is a bad situation.”
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I would NEVER listen to Kyle S. and every time I read about him I feel furious that he is still on air.
They are obviously carrying on this rubbish because it has brought reactions and people are "paying attention" to what these idiots say - like said below - please stop endorsing these horrible people MM.
Kyle and Jackie O's "Fat Club": The misogynist bullying by male colleague on air of his female colleague who has woefully low esteem, who jointly show appalling disregard for a growing section of the community who commit self harm (including anorexia) due to sexist media emphasis on woman who are not fat being forced to lose weight. KIIS FM also fails to provide Jackie O with a safe workplace (I understand that she puts up with the misogynist bullying for ridiculous sums of money, but that does not make it right). The incitement of hatred and ridicule towards females is a clear breach of 1.1 e in the ACMA broadcast code of conduct (you think "Fat Club" is not about gender? The only medically obese person in that studio is not being made to lose weight because he's male).
I have done the complaint form for KIIS FM but the fact that the Kyle and Jackie O show is still on air shows KIIS FM's continued disregard for the code of practice and other legislation and they will undoubtedly fail to do anything about this breach just like all the other breaches.
There is more than sufficient information for ACMA to investigate this show yet they ask for all of your personal information such as home address, home phone, email and then say they can provide it to the person you are complaining about. Do you think anyone is going to trust vile unethical Kyle with their personal info? They do it so they don't have to investigate. It's time the government actually investigated the harm done to the wider community by this show.
And for those that bleat: "well you don't have to listen to the show" you are right, but i have to work, go out and exist in the community where the not-so-bright listeners of that show also exist, who believe that because Kyle repeatedly gets away with his appalling acts towards women, then it's okay for them to be misogynists pigs towards women as well. That is the problem.
"Outrage junkies"?! Goodness you must be proud of yourself to come up with that one. Step into the real world, where women are abused, assaulted, humiliated, disrespected and discriminated against, by males who see that other males are allowed to do whatever the hell they want to woman and are never held responsible for it, so why shouldn't they? Rudi, you have a lot to learn.
You do know radio shocks, which include Kyle and Jackie O are not real life right? You do know it is all planned and scripted by both beforehand right?
You do understand it's all about outrage and the massive ratings it gets on early morning radio right? You do realise this is why they both have great paychecks right?
You do know having it planned and scripted give my words even more weight...right? That Kyle's appalling treatment of women is planned and purposeful..right? You know that's the reason why harmful misogynists like him shouldn't be on air...right?
yep.Very clever scripting