Kyle Sandilands has revealed the reason behind his bizarre feud with beloved biologist Sir David Attenborough.
On Monday’s Kyle & Jackie O Show, the 53-year-old shock jock was reminiscing about a number of celebrity conflicts when a caller brought up the British presenter’s 98.
“David Attenborough wasn’t a fan of mine. But I liked him, great guy,” Kyle said of the award-winning naturalist.
“He was amazing,” agreed co-host Jackie “O” Henderson.
“But he didn’t like us because we played animals and had sex with him and he had to guess what animal it was,” Kyle added.
‘One of the tracks had two turtles burrowing underwater. We played the sound and we had a big argument because he said, “How did this get recorded underwater?”‘
However, Jackie clarified the nature of the dispute, saying: ‘He disputed that they were turtles and you said, “Stop getting your pants in a knot, that’s what they are.” But what did we find out five years later?’
“The crew couldn’t get the turtles to root, so they just had two guys come into the studio… and make the sounds, so he was right,” Sandilands admitted.
Kyle Sandilands has revealed the reason behind his bizarre feud with beloved biologist Sir David Attenborough
‘And I kept going. “You don’t know, what would you know? You don’t know everything.”‘
However, Kyle and Jackie say they have since discovered that their staff lied to them about the sound effects at the time.
“Just let him come now and I’ll apologize,” Kyle joked, before the show moved on to other topics.
Kyle explained that Attenborough was not impressed that he had asked the conservationist to guess what sounds turtles made when they were mating underwater. Attenborough protested that the sound was fake, which Kyle denied, although he later discovered that the sound was an imitation of his staff
Attenborough is a beloved champion of the natural world and has captured the hearts of audiences throughout a career that began more than seventy years ago.
His award-winning nature documentaries, such as the Planet Earth franchise, are hugely popular worldwide.
In 2022, he was named ‘Champion of the Earth’ by the United Nations Environment Programme for ‘his dedication to research, documentation and advocacy for the protection and restoration of nature.’
