Witches founder goes to police over Sandilands’ remarks |
Witches founder goes to police over Sandilands’ remarks
April 24, 2026 — 6:00am
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Kyle Sandilands’ former employer ARN Media isn’t the only group unhappy with the foul-mouthed broadcaster.
A week before ARN Media cited Sandilands’ on-air rants about members of activist group Mad F---ing Witches in its defence to his legal action over his $100 million contract, the group’s founder, Jennie Hill, filed a complaint to Victoria Police regarding the fallout from threats allegedly made on air by the shock jock.
For years, a collective of left-wing women under the Witches banner have been trying to get companies to pull their advertising from the Kyle & Jackie O Show because of his conduct on air and history of comments made toward women.
They had plenty of success and that infuriated Sandilands, who said on air on November 7 that his mates had offered to deal with the issue.
“No one can really do anything about it. I bet I can if I was unleashed. I’m telling ya,” Sandilands said during a discussion on the Witches and cancel culture more generally.
“People that have approached me and said, ‘Hey, I can sort that out’. I’ve asked them, don’t get involved. And these are people that you don’t really want showing up.”
In other comments referenced in ARN’s legal defence lodged this week, where Sandilands stated that he can “get nasty too behind the scenes” if he has to.
“And I don’t want to. Well, I don’t want to be burning houses down and shit like that.”
On April 30 last year, Sandilands said he would deal with the group “my way” after he claimed KIIS was “slow” in getting onto it themselves.
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“I’ll have PIs [private investigators] following everyone they’ve ever known til I find some shit on these folks,” Sandilands said last year about the group.
Sandilands, whose case is back in court on Friday alongside that of Jackie “O” Henderson, is being countersued by ARN for millions of dollars, this masthead revealed on Wednesday evening.
Witches founder Jennie Hill said it was “incredibly ironic” that a group trying to get a man to stop spreading “verbal violence” were now receiving anonymous threats.
“There are at least two that we found so........