Radio host Kyle Sandilands has revealed he will be forced to undergo emergency brain surgery.
‘On Friday, I was told by my medical team, which sounds like I’m already very sick – to have a medical team – that I have a brain aneurysm and it requires immediate attention, brain surgery,’ Sandilands said on Monday morning.
‘If you just tuned in to us after all these years, lap it up. And if you’re in Melbourne… you’re coming to the party too late. You may get your wish. I may be dead.’
‘Let’s think positive,’ co-host Jackie O Henderson said.
‘That doesn’t work in real life,’ Kyle responded.
The 53-year-old then explained his condition on-air.
‘It’s not a blockage. It’s like, imagine your blood vessel is the garden hose, and the garden hose is weak and it blisters out like a big bubble, you know, like a puncture in it, like a bike tyre with a big bubble that bubbles the aneurysm, so it’s not blocked,’ he said.
‘It’s like, it’s expanded and if it bursts, it’s either a vegetable in the wheelchair, or dead.’
Radio host Kyle Sandilands has revealed he will be forced to undergo brain surgery. Pictured with wife Tegan
Kyle Sandilands is pictured with co-host Jackie O
Sandilands was absent when the show returned on Tuesday last week, and Jackie O told listeners he had vomited on himself.
‘Apparently he’s, um, projectile… he’s vomited all over himself this morning,’ she said.
He returned on air on Wednesday and Thursday, but was away sick on Friday.
Daily Mail Australia now understands Sandilands was taking tests after an appointment with a cardiologist, who has been treating his high blood pressure.
On Friday, he received a call informing him that he would need surgery.
Sandilands said he initially sought medical attention due to persistent headaches.
‘Because the headaches that come and I can be here for a week and then bang, it could be any day of the week, on the weekend,’ he said.
He will be away from the show for up to eight weeks.
‘So anyway, yeah, very bad, but it needs to be, and then I’ll have to have some time off… whether two to eight weeks.
On Friday, he received a call informing him that he would need surgery. Kyle is pictured with his wife Tegan and son Otto
Kyle Sandilands and Tegan Kynaston at their wedding in 2023
‘They can either do keyhole surgery, or they’ll have to cut away parts of my skull and open up my head to fix it.’
Just last year, Sandilands opened up about his health in an interview with Seven, sharing how becoming a dad to his son Otto motivated him to make lifestyle changes.
‘For years, I just lived hard and fast and recklessly, and did whatever I wanted and wherever, and behaved however I wanted,’ he said.
‘(But) when you’ve got a child, and you’re 52 (now 53), you think, I best be careful here, there’s much more to live for.’
In 2014, obesity specialist Dr Edward Jackowski warned that Sandilands would die young because of his weight and lifestyle.
While Sandilands has long been open about his struggles with weight, he began a serious weight loss journey in 2019.
‘I’m eating healthy and dropping off weight, but it’s a slow process,’ he said.
‘I’ve lost three belt sizes and people I haven’t seen for ages are surprised when they see me, they all tell me I’ve lost weight.’
Sandilands said he had started exercising and was enjoying the benefits of a healthy meal delivery plan.
He also stopped some of his worst habits, such as drinking ‘two litres of Coca-Cola and two litres of milk every day’.
‘I was eating s**t before and I’m so stubborn that I never wanted to listen when people told me to get in shape,’ he explained.
Sandilands has previously shared that he was kicked out of his family home at just 15 and spent time sleeping rough.
During this period, he survived mostly on milk and white bread, a diet that has influenced his eating habits to this day.
‘I’ll still just guzzle milk out of the bottle and I’ll grab three or four bits of plain white bread with nothing on it and I’ll just eat it,’ he told Daily Mail Australia in 2018, before giving up the habit in 2019.
‘It is a bit odd. It’s definitely a throw-back from the past.’
Sandilands was on the streets for about nine months, occasionally finding shelter at a friend’s place for a party or weekend. ‘But inevitably some stage shortly after that I’d be back in the box again,’ he said.
‘The worst part of my week was when the garbo would come and I’d show up to go to sleep and all the boxes were gone.
‘Eventually I found my way to a horse float and met some other kids that were also wayward and homeless and they were living in this horse float behind the service station just up the road from where I was camping and so I moved into there.’
Unlike some of his companions, Sandilands did not resort to taking drugs or committing violent crime. He couldn’t have afforded drugs even if he wanted them.
‘We were just kids,’ he says. ‘The older ones were on drugs and off their faces and doing break and enters and stuff like that.
‘I thought, “Jesus, there’s not much opportunity going down this road.”
‘Some people were robbing people from ATMs and I was like, I can’t do that. That’s how they were eating when I met them and then I showed them how I was eating, just stealing the milk and the bread.’
Sandilands said that was his entire diet most days of the week.
‘That’s it. Nothing but milk and bread. Because I was too gutless to steal from inside the shop when it was open, so I would always steal what was delivered before the shop was open.
‘But when other kids were saying, “We’re going to rob this old person at the ATM”, I was like, “Are you f***ing joking?” There was no way I could do that.’
Help came when his aunt Jill, a nurse, came across Sandilands by chance one day and insisted he move in with her family in Townsville, about 1,300km north.
‘She just said, “You’re just coming. There’s no question. You’re just coming”. Inside I said thank God, but on the outside I was still saying f*** you all.’
It was in Townsville with his aunt’s encouragement that Sandilands got his first job in radio, driving a promotional vehicle for the station 4TO.
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