Smallzy blasts Kyle & Jackie O team as show spirals out of control: 'This whole thing's fallen to pieces'

KIIS FM breakfast descended into chaos on Wednesday, with fill-in host Kent 'Smallzy' Small struggling to 'right the ship'.

Smallzy, 41, has been filling the KIIS FM breakfast slot since Kyle Sandilands, 54, and Jackie 'O' Henderson, 51, were taken off air last Tuesday.

The show got off to a very shaky start with none of the team at their posts. 

In fact, Smallzy and newsreader Brooklyn Ross revealed that some producers were sitting, with their feet on desks noshing on corn chips as the show went to air. 

'Kyle and Jac are gone for five days and suddenly everyone thinks this is a free for all,' Smallzy said, scolding his staff. 'Can you get to your stations?'

The direction clearly fell on deaf ears with Ross pointing out the lack of urgency among the staff with a surprised: 'No one's rushing.'

Almost on cue, content producer Alfie Laguzza sauntered into the studio and his tardiness did not go unnoticed.

'Oh there's Alfie. Good morning, Alfie. Thanks for showing up,' Smallzy said, sarcastically.

'I don't want you rushing – I don't want you working too hard today.' 

When the host asked his team if they were, in fact, listening to the show, Alfie offered a very cheeky reply.

'No they're not listening at all but, hey I'm here and that's the main thing,' he quipped.

Realising that his ability to wrangle the team was diminishing, Smallzy apparently threw up his hands in defeat.

'The whole thing has fallen to pieces – this whole shift is going down,' he said. 'I am your captain and I am doing the best that I can.' 

Ross replied: 'We are going down with the ship today. Play the violins.'

Reflecting on the current drama surrounding Henderson and Sandilands, Smallzy admitted that it was hard to keep up.

'Every day something else happens, every day I feel like we finish it up and I'm like, "you know what? Okay, I got through this. This is probably gonna go in my book one day,"' he explained. 

'I'm gonna write a book about my time in radio, I'm gonna talk about the time, I stepped into the biggest breakfast show in its hour of need and then every day I think I put my chapter to bed and then something happens at 5 o'clock and then I'm like, okay, well, we're putting that in.'

Ross agreed, admitting that the past week had been one of the most trying in his working life. 

'This is really the hardest week ever of my career,' he said. 'Every day it's another emotion and we don't know what's happening.' 

It comes after Sandilands broke his silence with a bombshell statement claiming he has been 'muzzled' by his employers, Australian Radio Network, and barred from contacting his long-time co-host Jackie O Henderson or speaking with colleagues. 

'Jackie and I have worked together for over 25 years. She is one of the most important people in my life. The idea that our partnership could end like this is devastating to me,' he said.

The shock jock went on to claim ARN had imposed some strict conditions amid the fallout.

'ARN told me that I am not allowed to contact Jackie. They have told me that I am not allowed to speak to my colleagues,' he added.

'I did what was asked even though it made it impossible for me to do the one thing anyone in my position would want to do – pick up the phone and talk to the person I have been talking with continually for my entire career.

'The truth is that ARN terminated Jackie's contract on the same day it accused me of a breach. It suspended me from work. All of this happened while I was being told to sit quietly and say nothing. That is not a genuine process.'