DJ Albo to spin the decks at Sandilands’ $1m wedding

Bet this one wasn’t on your 2023 bingo card, the Prime Minister of Australia has been forced to defend his decision to attend and possibly DJ at foul-mouthed radio host Kyle Sandilands’ wedding at the weekend.

The story gets even better though, the PM will be attending the wedding alongside infamous Sydney nightclub “identity” John Ibrahim and a convicted drug smuggler.

Following National Cabinet on Friday, Anthony Albanese defended his decision and called shock jock Sandilands, who once used the word “retard” while talking about a person with a disability, an “Australian success story”.

“Kyle Sandilands is someone who’s a significant figure and one of the things about Kyle — I’ll say this — a bloke who was at one stage homeless, living on the streets of Sydney, and has grown into someone who is a significant public figure,” the PM said.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Ibrahim will be attending as well as convicted drug smuggler Simon Main who will be Sandilands’ best man.

Ibrahim was the inspiration behind the series The Last King of the Cross, which was based on the book of the same name. Book publisher Pan MacMillan described him as the nation’s most notorious underworld figure in its promotional material.

Among the other 120 guests at Sandilands’ $1 million wedding to Tegan Kynaston will be another Labor politician — newly elected NSW Premier Chris Minns and his wife Anna.

Sandilands has put his foot in his mouth more times than can be counted during his 30-year career on Australia’s airwaves.

Noted incidents include:

• In 2007, he said he wanted to punch comedian Dave Hughes in the throat
• In 2009 he asked a teenager about her sexual history not long after she was forced to admit to being raped on a lie detector test
• In 2012 he called a child with a disability a “spider baby”
• In 2019 he called the Virgin Mary a liar who got “knocked up behind a camel shed”; and
• In 2022 he called monkeypox a “big gay disease”.