Kyle Sandilands has revealed the good lengths he went to to make it dwelling to his household each night time whereas filming Australian Idol.
The 51-year-old KIIS FM co-host, who welcomed his first baby, son Otto, with fiance Tegan Kynaston in September final yr, travelled round Australia on the back-end of 2022 to shoot auditions for the rebooted Seven present.
Speaking on The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show podcast, Sandilands opened up about his softer aspect since turning into a father, saying he chartered non-public jets at $100,000 a pop to fly dwelling to Sydney as a substitute of staying the night time in one other metropolis.
“I want my family with me …” Sandilands mentioned. “Even while we were filming Australian Idol auditions, all the judges were like, ‘Oh we’re off to the Gold Coast, how much free time have we got? Oh let’s spend the night [here], let’s have a travel day,’ and I was like …
“I had to hire a private jet to fly out of the Gold Coast at 11.30 at night so I could get home to see my child and fiance. I only wanted to be with them.
“And it cost like $100,000 flying here, to Adelaide, to the Gold Coast, to Canberra … They were like, ‘Oh, there’s the Idol budget’. But I didn’t want to wait on the Gold Coast for another day.”
Sandilands, who proposed to Kynaston in January 2022, mentioned his soon-to-be-wife was hesitant about his filming schedule as she ready to welcome their child.
“Before we had the baby, Tegan was like, ‘Let me get this right, you’ll be vanishing for six or seven weeks as we’re bringing our child home from hospital?’
“And I just said, ‘Yep, this is the schedule, but I’m gonna do this so I can be home more often.
“It was a breeze, she’s a really great mum and I loved coming home.”
Sandilands, who first starred as a decide on Idol from 2005 till it completed in 2009, is the one previous decide to return to the refreshed franchise, which premiered this week.
He makes up the judging panel alongside Amy Shark, Harry Connick Jr. and Meghan Trainor.
Source: www.news.com.au
