What Kyle Sandilands REALLY said about Chinese people: Radio host demands an apology from a newspaper that accused him of making a ‘vile slur’ – and insists his comments were inoffensive and factually accurate
Radio presenter Kyle Sandilands has come out swinging after a Sydney newspaper falsely claimed he had made a ‘vile Chinese slur’.
The Daily Telegraph accused the KIIS FM breakfast host of ‘going too far’ during a segment yesterday about his encounter with a Chinese sex worker years ago.
But Kyle strongly defended his remarks at the start of his program on Wednesday, insisting they were not racist whatsoever.
Setting the record straight: Radio presenter Kyle Sandilands has come out swinging after a Sydney newspaper falsely claimed he had made a ‘vile Chinese slur’
His ‘offensive’ comments actually concerned different types of human public hair.
Drawing from his experience with a Chinese sex worker, Kyle said on air on Tuesday that many Chinese people have straight pubes, while white and black people have curly pubes.
He did not suggest this was a bad thing, just that he had observed the difference.
Kyle was actually correct: Experts on human hair agree that people of East Asian heritage have pubic hair this is typically black and wavy.
By contrast, people of African heritage have highly curled pubic hair and people of European heritage also have curly pubic hair.
Beat-up: The Daily Telegraph accused the KIIS FM breakfast host of ‘going too far’ during a segment yesterday about his encounter with a Chinese sex worker years ago. Pictured: Kyle Sandilands and co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson
In response to The Daily Telegraph’s report, Kyle labelled it a beat-up.
He also accused the newspaper of making his comments seem worse than they actually were by refusing to print them.
Kyle demanded an apology from the newspaper and also said he refused to read an advertisement the Telegraph had paid for.
‘It’s not even offensive; it’s fact,’ he said. ‘Chinese pubes are straight.’