Kyle and Jackie O’s disintegration may be the biggest bust up in Australian media – ever

March 3, 2026 — 6:59pm

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In the end, KIIS FM breakfast presenter Jackie “O” Henderson took the nuclear option. She walked away from her radio partner of 27 years, Kyle Sandilands, on Tuesday, prompting their bosses at ARN Media to end her contract, part of an astonishing $200 million, decade-long agreement for the pair to present The Kyle & Jackie O Show until December 2034.

Rather than being annoyed with Henderson, ARN, which owns the KIIS and Gold networks, offered her another show, and placed Sandilands, who has grown immensely rich by styling himself as radio’s ultimate bad boy, on the naughty step.

The company’s stilted statement told the share market, after trading hours, that: “Ms Jacqueline Henderson has given notice that she ‘cannot continue to work with Mr Kyle Sandilands’.”

The company then gave the highest-paid person in........

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