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Advertiser dumps Kyle and Jackie O

Yahoo!7 September 10, 2009, 2:47 pm

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Optus has withdrawn support from the Kyle and Jackie O radio show, after Kyle Sandilands was taken off air for the second time in a month.

The company, a major sponsor for the show, has confirmed it has withdrawn all advertising.

Sandilands was yesterday suspended for the second time in a month, for saying Magda Szubanski could lose more weight in a concentration camp.

The comment sparked outrage from Jewish groups and others, prompting radio station 2DayFM to pull the plug on his show for the second time in as many months.

Magda Szubanski has become the public face of the weight loss program Jenny Craig in the last few months and so far she's lost a quarter of her starting body weight.

She earlier said she doesn't care that isn't enough for Sandilands.

"I couldn't give two hoots what he says about me. The only thing really I think is, it's uncool and really not on to trivialise what happened to people in concentration camps. I find that sort of abhorrent," she said.

Experts say Sandilands may have used up his last chance.

The shock jock's last controversy involved a live lie detector segment in which a teenager revealed on air that she'd been raped as a 12-year-old.

Channel 10 also dumped him from his judging gig on Australian Idol because of it.

Optus says it is reviewing all other activity involving Kyle and Jackie O.

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onesweetsuzy 03:38pm Friday 11th September 2009 EST Report Abuse
Whats the old saying "Pride comes before a fall"...mmmm looks like old boy kyle just fell of his perch....whoever sticks up for him obviously has no taste.....good riddence to the ugly boy....
lee 02:06pm Friday 11th September 2009 EST Report Abuse
If they do let him back on air then at very least he needs to have a paycut... I'm sorry but you shouldn't get paid a million dollars a year for being a no talent hack
AussieTVcritic 01:20pm Friday 11th September 2009 EST Report Abuse
Comments made by sandilands referencing about what happened to the jews then was abhorent and should not be supported, it was tactless and an error of judgement. What the jews are doing now with tanks and rocket gunships to the Palestinians now is abhorent and should not be supported. But Sandil ...
Leo 01:06pm Friday 11th September 2009 EST Report Abuse
fuuuuuu him
mary 01:02pm Friday 11th September 2009 EST Report Abuse
C'mon Kyle enough is enough. Your popularity and money making strategy period is over mate... Obtain any licence to do something positive and genuine so to encourage the majority to come to your aid. Your hehaviour is not acceptable from all corners of the universe. Learn to beg for your liv ...
noah 12:43pm Friday 11th September 2009 EST Report Abuse
He is being made a scapegoat for all the other Radio/TV celebrities who get away with much more than he has said.All the knowall Celebs getting on the bandwagon are just looking for publicity themselves. Kyle did apologise and maybe the wording was slight on his part, but you can't please ev ...
Steve 12:36pm Friday 11th September 2009 EST Report Abuse
shoot him
Skye 11:56am Friday 11th September 2009 EST Report Abuse
kyle should cop a dose of his own bloody medicine. i mena the guy is a complete loser to put it politely ... and anyone who thinks he should be left alone (Mark of Caine) you might want to get your facts straight befor defending someone for something they said. Concentration camps in hitlers time we ...
Jo 11:37am Friday 11th September 2009 EST Report Abuse
Mark of Caine, you obviously missed the point of what Kyle was saying when he likened weight loss to concentration camps. People in those places you compared to concentration camps make the choice to be there, the Jews did not.
Jo 11:35am Friday 11th September 2009 EST Report Abuse
I'm sure Kyle will be left alone, when he starts leaving other people alone!! .