Kyle Sandilands calls Firass Dirani ‘a massive pest’ and claims he ‘followed’ John Ibrahim
Kyle Sandilands calls actor Firass Dirani ‘a huge tease’ and claims he ‘followed’ John Ibrahim around Sydney playing the Kings Cross identity in Underbelly
Kylie Sandilands has called Underbelly star Firass Dirani a ‘massive tease’.
The 51-year-old shock jock made the surprise outburst on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Thursday.
He claimed that when Dirani played John Ibrahim in the TV crime series Underbelly, he ‘followed’ the Kings Cross identity around Sydney and would appear at the same nightspots as Ibrahim.
Sandilands, who is a friend of Ibrahim, said Dirani would approach the couple when they were enjoying a night out.
“He became such a nuisance,” Kyle told co-host Jackie “O” Henderson.
Kylie Sandilands has called Underbelly star Firass Dirani a ‘massive tease’ on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Thursday
He claimed that when Dirani played John Ibrahim in the TV crime series Underbelly, he ‘followed’ the Kings Cross identity around Sydney and would appear at the same nightspots as Ibrahim.
“We’d be somewhere and he’d love to meet you here,” he said.
“I’m not going to use the word ‘stalking’, but he magically appeared wherever we were…” he continued. “So we’d say ‘Oh, here’s Firass again.'”
“But he’s a nice guy,” Kyle added quickly. “Don’t get me wrong, we don’t like him.”
It comes after Dirani will join the cast of the Australian remake of the BBC hit The Office.
Sandilands, meanwhile, has questioned the casting of the lead role in the Australian remake of The Office, played by Ricky Gervais in the original and Steve Carell in the US version.
The reboot of the iconic BBC sitcom, a mockumentary sitcom set in a paper company headed by a hapless boss, will be produced Down Under by Amazon Prime “in the coming months.”
Female stars including Magda Szubanski, Celia Pacquola, Kitty Flanagan, Judith Lucy and Felicity Ward have all been tipped to star.
But Kyle Sandilands questioned the proposed casting on Tuesday morning’s Kyle and Jackie O Show.
Sandilands, who is a friend of Ibrahim, on the far left, said Dirani would approach the pair when they were enjoying a night out. The couple is pictured here with their other best friend Simon Main
“It’s going to be a disaster, I think,” Kyle said. “Because they cast all the wrong kinds of people.”
He continued, “What they should have done is use a cast of people that no one has ever seen before, like what happened with the original Office.”
“I mean, you can’t go past Ricky Gervais,” his co-host Jackie “O” Henderson agreed. ‘The UK office was the best’
“It’s going to be a Kath & Kim spoof,” Kyle predicted.