During Monday morning’s Kyle and Jackie O Show, Kyle and co-host Jackie “O” Henderson shared memories about Warne, whose death from a suspected heart attack at the age of 52 in Thailand on Friday sent shockwaves around the world.“He loved life. He was a really good bloke. Not just what you see on TV and radio, but just one-on-one hanging out, just a top bloke,” Kyle, 50, said.“He was really a decent guy. Even during hard times, he’d answer the call from us. Where most big media profile people hide like cowards, he’d be straight on the phone.”Jackie O then shared a personal story about her friendship with Warne, revealing he’d once sent her a surprise gift.“He was a very generous bloke,” she said.“You know when I was doing The Masked Singer, he sent gin to my dressing room? So that I could drink while doing the show … I was so impressed.“He was a great guy, he was so charismatic. Just a great person who lived life to the fullest. You kind of envied his life because he always looked happy, and always was making the most of any situation. ‘I want to live that life’ – you know, you always looked at him like that.”Stream more entertainment news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. Offer ends 31 October, 2022 >Before playing a package of clips from on-air chats with Warne over the years, Kyle explained that they’d had to “edit out all the filth”.“We’ve got a few bits of Shane on the air with us. There have been some great tributes around on TV for the last few days, but our audio guy said we had to edit out all the filth stuff, because we always would be a bit cheeky,” Kyle said, before joking: “So you’ll hear Shane here, talking to me and Jackie, and all the best bits are on the editing room floor, which I’ll keep at my place for my own personal tribute.”In one of the moments from the tribute, Kyle was heard asking Warne: “Have you ever made love while having music on?” to which he joked: “Only your show. And I said, ‘Hang on, we have to stop, I want to listen to what Kyle has to say!’” After the tribute aired, the emotional hosts again reflected on their relationship with the late sporting legend.“I didn’t really know him as a cricketer, I just knew him as a man,” Kyle said.NED-5661-Shane-Warne-Timeline-to-tragedyMeanwhile, over on FoxFM’s Fifi, Fev and Nick Show in Melbourne, an emotional Brendan Fevola reminisced about his close friend Warne, the “life of the party” who he’d played poker with just a fortnight ago.“He treated everyone the same – he made you feel so special when you were in his presence, he made you feel like you were the king,” the former AFL star told his co-hosts.“You’d be sitting at a poker table and he would talk to you the same way he’d talk to one of his billionaire friends, and then there’d be a little footballer at the other end, and a bloke from around the table – and he’d make everyone at that table feel super special when he spoke to you.“Everyone always says, ‘I’m mates with Warnie’ – because that’s how he made you feel, you were his mate. He’s got his best mates, he’s got his mates, and he’s got his mates that he just walks past down the street, and he’d just stop and talk.”Fevola broke down in tears as he spoke about Warne’s incredible charity work through The Shane Warne Foundation. “He was a great human … I saw first-hand, he did so much for kids, he’d cop a lot of sh*t off people and people would hammer him, because they didn’t really know him,” the tearful radio host said.“But he’d look after kids, and some of the kids’ lives he changed just through raising that money … he raised millions and millions and millions of dollars, he didn’t have to do that, but he did because he knew he had a long yardstick where he could touch people’s lives.”Fevola again became overwhelmed with emotion as he shared his experience of seeing his friend in his role as a father.“Everyone loved him as a cricket player, and the larrikin, Shane Warne – but I knew him as a father as well, and he loved his kids, Jacko, Brooke and Summer … and I can’t stop thinking about them,” he said.“Those poor kids, they’ve lost their dad. They shared their lives with their dad, and now they’ve got to grieve with the world about their dad as well, you know … “I just feel there’s nothing we really can do to help them, but I just hope they know their dad was one of the best people that anyone would ever meet. He was a great man.”
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