HE’S AFRAID OF WHAT COMES NEXT…! – KYLE SANDILANDS SHARES SOBERING HEALTH UPDATE AFTER BRAIN AND CHEST ANEURYSM DIAGNOSIS
Kyle Sandilands has shed light on his brain and chest aneurysms – and whether baby Otto will be getting a little brother or sister any time soon – in an exclusive interview.
Speaking to Daily Mail’s podcast, The Debrief with Savanna Young, the 55-year-old radio shock jock opened up about family life with wife Tegan Kynaston, 40, his health fight, and whether the couple are planning to expand their brood.
Kyle and Tegan are already proud parents to son Otto, three, who was born in August 2022.
But while the loved-up pair have discussed having more children, Kyle admitted they’ve ultimately decided their family is complete.
‘We’ve talked about more kids, but we’ve decided no,’ he revealed.
‘It’s mainly because of my old age. We did want to have two at the beginning, but I was like, “Oh, now I know why everyone has their kids in their 20s because I’m 55 and I’m exhausted and I love every minute of it”.’
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Kyle Sandilands, 55, opened up about family life with wife Tegan Kynaston, 40, and whether the couple are planning to expand their brood. Pictured with son Otto, now three, on their wedding day in 2023
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‘But … imagine having two and one’s sick. You never get any peace.’
Kyle added that he and Tegan have fully embraced a surprisingly low-key lifestyle, with the couple often tucked up in bed by 7.30pm and eating dinner before most people have finished work.
‘This is ridiculous. We’re eating dinner at 4.30pm!’ he laughed.
The radio king, who is preparing to launch his own independent show next month, also suggested his ongoing health battles have played a major role in the couple’s decision not to have more children.
Providing The Debrief with an update on the brain aneurysm and chest aneurysm doctors discovered last year, Kyle revealed he is continuing to undergo regular monitoring.
‘I’ve got to go to the cardiovascular surgeon because I’ve got another aneurysm in my chest as well. So they’ve got to monitor that one,’ he explained.
‘And then in a couple of months’ time, they go and they have to go through that whole scan process again to see if it’s grown.’
Kyle also shared a sobering update on the aneurysm behind his right eye, admitting doctors are unable to operate using standard keyhole procedures due to its complex location.
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Speaking exclusively on Daily Mail’s The Debrief, Kyle admitted they’ve ultimately decided their family is complete
‘They can’t really operate on the one on the head because it’s attached to multiple blood vessels,’ he continued.
‘So the normal thing they can do with keyhole, they can’t do it. It’s behind my right eye. So they said they would have to cut all the way down this side like a massive scar.’
The outspoken star said the prospect of such an invasive procedure was far from appealing.
‘I’m already dealing with this,’ he added, pointing to his body. ‘So imagine [looking like] Frankenstein as well.
‘[They have to] pop your skull out and get in there. And I was like, “You know, let’s just see if it grows first”.’
Kyle’s health battles first came to light in February 2025 when he revealed his shock diagnosis live on his now-axed KIIS FM breakfast show with Jackie ‘O’ Henderson.
The radio star stunned listeners when he announced doctors had discovered a brain aneurysm that required urgent specialist attention.
‘I was told by my medical team – which sounds like I’m already very sick, that I have a brain aneurysm. It requires immediate attention, brain surgery,’ he said at the time.
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Kyle and Tegan are already proud parents to son Otto, who was born in August 2022
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Kyle also reflected on the lifestyle choices he believes may have contributed to the diagnosis.
‘My doctor said if I didn’t get it checked, I would have died. A life of cocaine abuse and partying are not the way to go!’ he admitted.
Explaining the condition to listeners, Kyle compared the aneurysm to a damaged garden hose.
‘It’s not a blockage. It’s like, imagine your blood vessel is the garden hose, and the hose is weak and it blisters out like a big bubble, like a puncture in it,’ he said.
‘It’s like a bike tyre with a big bubble – that bubble’s the aneurysm, so it’s not blocked.
‘It’s expanded and if it bursts, [I will become] either a vegetable, in the wheelchair, or dead.’
At the time, Kyle revealed doctors had ordered him to make major lifestyle changes while they monitored the condition, including avoiding cocaine, heavy lifting and stress.
He also shared the emotional toll the diagnosis had taken on his family.
According to Kyle, wife Tegan was devastated by the news and would ‘burst into tears’ whenever she looked at him in the days after learning of the diagnosis.
