Kyle Sandilands has revealed he and US singer Harry Connick Jr didn’t get alongside whereas filming Channel 7’s Australian Idol.
Speaking to KIIS FM’s Will and Woody this week forward of the present’s premiere subsequent Monday, the shock jock opened up a couple of “blow up” throughout filming that led to the 2 judges not talking off set.
Sandilands’ defined that issues have been “prickly” between him and the Grammy-winning artist from the get-go.
“I didn’t mind him … I don’t feel he got the vibe of me,” Sandilands stated.
“Personally, I don’t think he gelled with me. If someone doesn’t like you, and you feel it, you just don’t like them automatically,” he added.
Asked if the tensions boiled over right into a conflict, Sandilands admitted that there was a disagreement over contestant pronouns.
“Yes, we had a blow up … It wasn’t a Michael Clarke, Karl Stefanovic situation,” he joked.
“He rang me, I was leaving, I was climbing up the 3 or 4 steps to my plane while he was lined up for the airport going through security,” he quipped of his luxurious journey preparations in comparison with the opposite judges.
“I said to someone that he wanted the pronouns to be put onto the contestants’ sheets. I thought I heard him say to a producer, ‘we need the pronouns’ and I told someone on an interview, ‘Oh Harry’s going on about the pronouns.’
“Apparently, it wasn’t Harry. And he rang me and he took great offence.”
Sandilands stated the cellphone name changed into a squabble which ended with Sandilands apologising whereas asserting that it was “no big deal”.
“I just thought ‘what a flop’ and hung up,” he recalled, including: “That was it. Friendship over.”
He went on to say that he and Connick Jr. “don’t really chat off the set”.
“He’s a busy guy, he enjoys his own company,” he stated.
The actor and singer was introduced as a part of the judging panel final September, together with Sandilands, US pop star Meghan Trainor and Aussie musician Amy Shark.
Ricki-Lee, who rose to fame from the 2004 season of the present, and E! News host Scott Tweedie, will host.
At the time of the forged announcement, reactions have been combined.
While many have been thrilled to see that Channel 7 had snagged two worldwide faces for the present, a variety of Twitter customers famous the dearth of multicultural inclusion on the all-white forged.
“Where is the diversity?” questioned former ABC News reporter Mark Kearney.
“The OG Australian Idol had at the heart of its panel Marcia Hines. This one has … a foul shock jock with a history of racism, misogyny and homophobia? Yucky,” he added of Sandilands, who has a historical past of creating controversial remarks on his morning radio present.
Originally printed as Kyle Sandilands recollects blow up with Harry Connick Jr throughout Australian Idol filming
