Push to dump Kyle Sandilands from Seven’s Idol

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Problems keep mounting for the formerly Teflon star Kyle Sandilands, after the activist group Mad F---ing Witches set its sights on the Seven Network’s advertisers in a push to get the polarising personality dumped from his lucrative judging gig on Australian Idol.

As Idol heads into its two-part grand final on Monday and Tuesday, MFW has mobilised its brethren throughout this season of the show to lobby advertisers to abandon the program, with the aim of getting Sandilands removed as a judge in 2027.

The powerful advertiser boycott group caused havoc for ARN when it targeted advertisers on Sandilands’ KIIS breakfast show. Now it’s using the same tactics against Seven and Idol to ratchet up pressure on the network as the show reaches its conclusion.

With Sandilands gone from the airwaves – for now, at least – the witches want him gone from TV as well, where he presents a much more cuddly persona than on his radio show.

Idol has long provided Sandilands with a decent pay cheque, one he would no doubt like to hang on to after his mega-deal with ARN was torn up in March, even if only to help........

© The Sydney Morning Herald