It’s been almost a year since radio star Kyle Sandilands shocked listeners by revealing he’d been diagnosed with a brain aneurysm.
The forthright broadcaster, famous for his on-air tirades on the Kyle & Jackie O Show, didn’t mince his words when he told fans in February 2025, “I may be dead. It is possible, it is highly possible.”
Initially, he said he would require surgery, but he has not gone under the knife.
Now, he has given an update on his condition to the Daily Telegraph, revealing that he is being monitored, and he has so far had two six-monthly checks.
Luckily, the aneurysms have not grown, with Kyle sharing, “Which is good – they re-looked at all those scans and said it’s good.
“It’s good because when they first found it, they weren’t sure whether I had it for 30 years or 30 days.”
If he went into surgery, he would have a scar running above his left eye, because of its location.
“One of them is very hard to get to in the head, so the chance of having complications is greater than just doing nothing, but we are monitoring the size at the moment, and the one in the chest is not operable yet,” he explained.
A brain aneurysm is a bulge in a brain artery, and if it leaks or bursts, it can be life-threatening. It is caused by a weak spot in the artery wall.
According to Health Direct, two in 100 people have a brain aneurysm and many do not realise they have one. It said there are usually no symptoms, but sometimes include headaches and vision changes if it becomes very large.
“It’s not small, and smaller ones than the one that I’ve got have bled out and had problems, but it’s not really the shit we need to get in there right now, so I plough on,” he continued.
How did Kyle Sandilands know he had a brain aneurysm?
Kyle had been suffering from debilitating headaches at the time of his diagnosis, with doctors telling him the condition required “immediate attention”.
While on-air, he showed radio staff his brain scan, adding: “If that bursts, I die instantly”.
“My wife, every time I look at her, her eyes well up with tears,” he revealed last year, referring to his partner Tegan Kynaston, with whom he shares a young son, Otto. “She is already counting down the days.”
Kyle went on to admit that, “The facts are, a life of cocaine abuse and partying are not the way to go”, revealing he’d need two to eight weeks off air while he had brain surgery.
Now looking back on it, he said he needed to change his ways.
“But I had to stop carrying on,” he told the Daily Telegraph. “You know, with all the partying.
“I had to start sleeping properly because I obviously thrashed myself over the years, but it’s good now because I’ve found other things.”
Was Kyle Sandilands’ health scare a hoax?
However, in the weeks that followed, Kyle didn’t go under the knife. It led some haters to suggest he’d shared the health woes as a publicity stunt, causing Kyle to issue a furious denial on the show.
“The surprise that I haven’t had the emergency surgery is no surprise to anyone who listens to the show, because I’ve gone to the surgeon, and it’s a strange shape, so it’s not a simple thing to get to,” Kyle said, referring to the aneurysm on air.
“I’ve made it quite clear to journalists and on this show that it’s more dangerous to go in and get it out right now than it is to keep monitoring it.
“It is dangerous, I’ve got to change my whole lifestyle which is complete s***, but it is what it is.”
Opening up more about it to the Daily Telegraph, he said it would be a challenging process.
“And when the guy said, ‘We can’t really get in there the normal way – we’d have to cut half your face off’, and that would be a big scar above my eye. They’d have to pull my skull out,” Kyle explained.
“And I said, ‘Can’t you get in with the keyhole?’ And he said, ‘No, we can’t because it’s clustered onto multiple blood vessels; it’s not just coming off one.”
Kyle Sandilands’ health
In July 2025, he also shared more insight into the wider issues he was facing with his health, telling Jackie that he weighed more in 2025 than he did the year before.
“I’m 138, I thought I was massive. I’ve been a bit… I don’t know whether “depressed” is the word? Ever since this aneurysm thing came up a year ago,” he told her.
“I brushed it off inside. My wife is on me about it, asking if I would like to come for a walk with her and Otto. I would like to, but just too fat and lazy to go!” he admitted.
The star went on to talk about his inability to give up junk food, saying, “I also use an opportunity to eat a packet of chicken and biscuits! I know I’m doing myself in.”
While the star hadn’t yet gone under the knife, he said he’d recently gone for more scans.
“If I’m good, then I will put together a club, ‘Kyle’s Big Fatso Club’, where I want others to join me in my slow march to healthiness. Who is with me?” he joked.
A month later, fans worried when he stumbled over his words, and when he claimed he had a stroke on air.
“I feel that I’ve said the wrong words multiple times this morning, and I’m not super tired,” he said at the time.
The comment caused such a commotion that KIIS FM had to issue a statement.
“A team of highly qualified medical professionals continues to monitor Kyle’s health, and they’re pleased with where he’s presently at,” the network said on August 22.
