Kyle Sandilands fools media with on-air "love child" hoax

Kyle Sandilands has revealed that an apparent discussion about his "secret love child" live on air was in fact a wind-up.

The Australian television and radio personality, who hosts 2DayFM's breakfast show alongside Jackie O, left his microphone on during a song on Thursday morning, during which he and his co-host started discussing his "baby".

However, Sandilands has since responded to the reports, revealing that he had been competing with his co-host to see who could come up with the best prank. Jackie O chose to cover her producer's car with thousands of post-it notes.

The Australia's Got Talent judge told news.com.au: "I have no love child, there is no love child. I'm not interested in pranks, I don't like them… I thought, 'I don't want to prank anyone other than other media organisations'.

"At the end of the day I've taken up newspaper space, I've annoyed them 'cause they annoyed me."

Jackie O had said during Thursday's show: "If anyone gets wind of it, you can just imagine Woman's Day [magazine], like 'Kyle's love child'."

Sandilands then responded: "I'm just glad she came to me rather than… she could have gone and sold that story. She'll be making a lot more over the next 18 years I'd imagine."

Later, Jackie O could be heard asking the 40-year-old star if he has seen ever seen his son, to which he responded: "I've got one photo on a text." She said: "Does he look like you?" and he replied: "No. No beard."

The Daily Telegraph claims that the 2DayFM switchboard cut off any callers trying to ring the station after the incident and that posts mentioning the "love child" were deleted from the network's Facebook page.

However, some fans accused Sandilands and Jackie O of a hoax on Twitter shortly after the show had ended, with others describing the stunt as "pathetic" and "stupid" in a poll on the show's official Facebook page.

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