Aussie broadcaster offends with concentration camp jibe

Australian shock jock Kyle Sandilands has offended the public once again, this time 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.

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.

"You put her in a concentration camp and you watch the weight fall, like she could be skinny."

 

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