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Magda Szubanski, - Source: ONE News -
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Shock jock Kyle Sandilands has apologised for saying actress
Magda Szubanski could become skinny if she was in a concentration
camp.
Sandilands is expected to face the wrath of advertisers and
listeners only weeks after he and co-host Jackie O sparked a furore
over a segment in which a 14-year-old girl, who was hooked up to a
lie detector, revealed she was raped when she was 12.
Some major sponsors withdrew advertising from the Austereo group,
the owner of 2DayFM, and Kyle and broadcaster Jackie O went off-air
for two weeks.
Szubanski, who is a spokeswoman for a weight loss company, has lost
25kg since she appeared on the comedy series Kath and Kim.
Her family is of Polish origin, a country where many of the worst
Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, were located.
Sandilands joked on Tuesday that Szubanski's work with the weight
loss campaign was not finished.
"Magda could have another run out of it," he said on 2Day FM.
"She could get another season out of them, easy ... she's not
skinny."
Jackie O suggested Szubanski might not be able to lose any more
weight due to her build.
"That's what all fat people say," Sandilands replied.
"You put her in a concentration camp and you watch the weight fall,
like she could be skinny."
Sandilands offered an apology late on Tuesday, saying he did no
mean to cause offence.
"It was not my intention to upset anyone and I sincerely apologise
to anyone offended by my comments," he said in a statement issued
by Austereo.
Szubanski brushed off Sandilands' on-air comments, but said they
were offensive to those who had suffered in concentration
camps.
"I couldn't give two hoots about what Kyle says about me, but to
trivialise what happened to people in concentration camps is
abhorrent," she said in a statement.
The head of Austereo Group Ltd Peter Harvie has previously admitted
he does not listen much to Sandilands and Jackie O.
