Kyle's joke backfires
October 12, 2006
12:00am

SOUNDS like Vile Sandilands has let his enormous stock of bad taste get the better of him again.

We're told the reason his fellow Australian Idol judge, the slightly more talented and knowledgeable Mark Holden, went on Alan Jones' Sydney radio show on Monday and gave Vile a huge bucketing, was a practical joke.

Ten Network sources close to Sandilands, Holden and the whole Idol circus, tell us the Sydney radio ranter organised a driver to collect Holden, but not to go to the studios.

Instead he drove around Sydney saying how great it was to have a real celeb in his hire car, texting all his mates and then pulling up where they had all gathered, supposedly to get Holden's autograph.

But the hire-car had apparently been wired for sound to pick up Holden's reactions.

Then Sandilands would use the tape for one of his out-dated and un-funny on-air gotcha segments.