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Australian TV's low point? Footage resurfaces of Beauty and the Beast star Stan Zemanek throwing a book at co-star Jan Murray on-air… as shock jock who didn't have the stomach to take on the infamous panel show speaks out


He may be known as Australia's most boisterous shock-jock.

Shock jock Kyle Sandilands, 52, (left) has admitted he didn't have the stomach to appear on wild daytime panel show Beauty and the Beast in the early 2000s. The conversation became increasingly heated when Jan started complaining about then-Prime Minister John Howard, who she compared to a 'little pygmy gnome', and how his federal policies were 'shutting down every service in the bush'. The conversation became increasingly heated when Jan started complaining about then-Prime Minister John Howard, who she compared to a 'little pygmy gnome', and how his federal policies were 'shutting down every service in the bush'

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