Veteran Australian Idol star Marcia Hines says Kyle Sandilands has gone ‘soft’ as a judge after welcoming baby boy Otto into the world.
Marcia Hines will return to Australian Idol as a guest judge on Saturday after working on the first panel 13 years ago alongside Kyle Sandilands.
Now the 69-year-old veteran judge has revealed how much the 51-year-old radio shock jock has changed since he had his first child.
Talking with the advertiser On Saturday, she said that while he’s still as “mischievous” as ever, he’s not as hard on people as he used to be before Otto was born.
Marcia Hines, 69, will return to Australian Idol as a guest judge on Saturday after working on the first panel 13 years ago alongside Kyle Sandilands, 51. (Pictured from left to right: Sandilands, Hines and the Australian Idol co-judge Ian’ Dicko Dickson in 2008)
“Kyle couldn’t be more difficult, because Kyle had a baby,” she said.
“He’s got baby Otto, so that’s really softened him up and I think he’s excited, but Kyle is Kyle and what you see is what you get.”
“We’ve always had a very interesting relationship, Kyle and I, and he’s naughty, but he makes me laugh out loud and he says things and I’m like, ‘Kyle, you just can’t say that,’ and he’s like, ‘I just did.’ . .”‘
Now, the veteran judge has revealed how much the radio shock jock has changed since he had his first child.
Sandilands and his fiancee Tegan Kynaston, 36, welcomed their first child, Otto, on August 11 last year.
Her co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson announced the happy news on air and Sandiland manager Bruno Bouchet told Daily Mail Australia at the time: “Mummy and baby are doing well.”
Kyle is beyond excited. Kyle will be back on the radio soon to chat about Otto,” he added.
Speaking to The Advertiser on Saturday, he said that while he’s still as “mischievous” as ever, he’s not as hard on people as he used to be before Otto was born.
Henderson, who is Otto’s godmother, shed tears of joy when she declared: ‘Otto is born!’
Sandilands then gave a rather graphic update on the birth, telling ‘intern’ Peter Deppeler live in the hospital car park: ‘Otto is born, he’s fabulous. I cut the cord.
“I didn’t realize it was like hard squid and oozing blood.”
Sandilands and his fiancee Tegan Kynaston, 36, welcomed their first child, Otto, on August 11 last year. (All in the photo)