Kyle Sandilands has revealed the reason for his bizarre feud with beloved biologist Sir David Attenborough.
On Monday’s Kyle & Jackie O show, the 53-year-old radio host was recalling some of his run-ins with celebrities, when a caller mentioned the British presenter, 98.
“David Attenborough wasn’t a fan of mine, but I liked him, he was a great guy,” Kyle said of the award-winning natural historian.
“It was lovely,” co-host Jackie “O” Henderson agreed.
“But he didn’t like us because we were playing the game where animals were having sex with him and he had to guess what animal it was,” Kyle added.
‘One of them was two turtles digging underwater and we played the noise, and then he and I had a big argument because he said ‘how was this recorded underwater?’
However, Jackie clarified the nature of the conflict, explaining: ‘He was arguing about whether they were turtles and you said, “Stop getting worked up, they are.” But what did we find out five years later?’
“The staff couldn’t get the turtles to make any noise, so they just put two guys in the studio… making the noises, so he was right,” Sandilands admitted.
Kyle Sandilands has revealed the reason for his bizarre feud with beloved biologist Sir David Attenborough
And I continued: “You don’t know, what do you want to know? You don’t know everything.”
However, Kyle and Jackie said they have since discovered that their staff at the time had lied to them about the sound effects.
“Play it now, 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 while mating underwater. Attenborough protested that the sound was fake, which Kyle denied, although he later discovered that the noise was an imitation by his staff.
Attenborough is a beloved champion of the natural world and has won the hearts of audiences throughout his career, which began more than seven decades ago.
His award-winning nature documentaries, including the Planet Earth franchise, have enjoyed enormous popularity around the world.
In 2022, he was named ‘Champion of the Earth’ by the United Nations Environment Programme due to ‘his dedication to research, documentation and advocacy for the protection of nature and its restoration’.
