An emotional Kyle Sandilands shares the death of his father live on air.

In a rare candid moment, Kyle Sandilands told his listeners that his father had died over the weekend as a result of liver and bowel cancer.

The radio presenter had just landed in Australia following a work trip to Paris, when his step mother broke the news to him over phone.

“I said to him don’t you die while I’m away, that would be terrible. It would ruin the trip,” Sandilands joked. “He was suffering greatly.”

Tearing up, he told his co-host Jackie O that he was glad he had patched things up with his father before his death after a decade of estrangement.

“We had a great relationship at the end there,” he said. “But it’s the regret of like 10 years in the middle somewhere, where it was a bit forced. He was trying to get us back and I was pretending everything was alright but it was a messy 10 years.

“I think everyone has a regret of some kind when they lose a parent,” Jackie counselled, before introducing a short clip of the times Sandilands’ dad had called into their program.

“You can’t wrap up your father’s life in a radio segment,” he concluded. “I love you dad wherever you are.”

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