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Kyle Sandilands reveals feud with Australian Idol judge Harry Connick Jr

But Kyle doesn’t “give a s**t”...
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The new season of Australian Idol hasn’t even begun yet but it looks like there’s already been a feud. Not between contestants though; between judges Harry Connick Jr and Kyle Sandilands.

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During his popular radio show, which he hosts with Jackie O, Kyle shared, “[I’ve] got my own PR disaster I’m trying to avoid at the moment… It’s not quite the Clarkey Karl thing but I went on Will & Woody the other day, talking about Idol and I think, you know, I think I might’ve thrown a cat amongst the pigeons.”

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Kyle explained that while on Will & Woody he said that he used a private jet to fly to and from Australian Idol tapings whereas his co-judges Harry, Meghan Trainor and Amy Shark just flew on regular commercial flights.

The 51-year-old then clarified on his own show that he’s worried people will take that information the wrong way; people will think he got special treatment from Channel Seven when that’s not the case, as he paid for his private jet flights himself.

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Kyle went on to say that he’s clearing up his Will & Woody comments because things are already “prickly” between him and Harry Connick Jr and he doesn’t want the news of him using a private jet creating more waves.

Jackie kept things light and pointed out that Kyle and Harry probably don’t get along because they have extremely different personalities.

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Kyle has revealed that his fellow Australian Idol judge, Harry Connick Jr, doesn’t like him. (Credit: Getty)

Kyle agreed and said, “I’m me, funny and great and charming. And he’s -” “Super serious,” Jackie interjected.

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“I don’t think he likes me, in all honesty… Not that I give a s**t,” Kyle then admitted.

Jackie backed Kyle up and said that she’s seen the first episode of Australian Idol already and in her opinion, when watching, “you can tell Harry just doesn’t really like Kyle that much”.

“Him and I have already had a little run in over a misunderstanding where I thought he said something about wokeness and he said, ‘No, I didn’t say that,’ and you know, ‘You have to say sorry,’ and then his manager wanted an apology and I said, ‘You ain’t getting no apology ever about anything ever’… That’s just not my way,” Kyle added.

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Kyle then said, “He’s not an a**hole. But you know when you know someone doesn’t like you, you sort of make a bit of extra effort and then it falls flat,” before sharing that he’d imported a “weird confectionery from another country” that Harry Connick Jr loves and left it in his Australian Idol dressing room as a “last ditch attempt to get in his good books”.

Apparently, Harry was extremely thankful and Kyle even praised Harry for taking Idol seriously…

“He came to me on set and he said, ‘Hey Kyle, hey did you leave that?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, yeah,’ and he goes, ‘Man, where’d you get that?’ And I said, ‘I got it imported from Japan,’ and he’s like, ‘Man, man, thank you, you didn’t have to do that,’ and it was nice,” Kyle said.

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Kyle imported a specific type of confectionary that Harry likes in a “last ditch attempt to get in his good books”. (Credit: Seven)

“I’m a bit of an a**hole and he’s not as much of an a**hole and he takes [Australian Idol] seriously.”

Perhaps the feud is over before it’s even really begun? Only time will tell… Australian Idol premieres on 7 and 7plus on January 30.

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