Kyle Sandilands has apologised for a segment where he and Jackie O hooked a 14-year-old to a lie detector to ask about her sex life. "I'm really sorry that we didn't realise what she'd been through," Sandilands said. "If we had, we would have broadcast her rape counselling session instead. It would have made much better radio."

On the following day's broadcast, Sandilands slammed the media for its role in the uproar. “I'm really disappointed that the media response has sunk into gossip, scandalmongering and exploiting on a teenaged victim of abuse,” he said. “They were our ideas - where's the originality?”

The radio station has delivered on its promise to provide counselling for the girl at the centre of the incident. "She has been left traumatised because she trusted an older man who cruelly abused her for his own gratification," the counsellor told the media. "She was also traumatised by the rape."

2Day has placed the show "in recess" while it conducts a review. "We prefer the term "in recess" to "suspended", because recess is the usual place where you'd pick on a 14-year-old girl," an Austereo spokesperson said.

The station is adament the show will not be axed. "Sure, we understand that when Kyle asked the girl if she'd had any other experiences, that trivialised her rape," an Austereo executive said. "But we pay Kyle and Jackie a lot of money to trivialise things. There's no-one better."

The unpopular personality has however been sacked from his judging role on Australian Idol. "Who would have thought someone we hired to bully our contestants would behave like this?" said a Ten source. It's also understood that Kyle also refused to comply with a new network rule that all reality judges wear cravats.

The scandal hit shortly afterwards another controversy, which unfolded when Sandilands' new wife, Tamara Jaber, told Ralph how much she enjoyed sex with him. Jaber has refused to repeat the statement while connected to a lie detector. Most readers, however, did accept Jaber's claim about having lesbian fantasies, saying it was an understandable response to being married to Sandilands.

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