Karl Stefanovic reveals trolls are saying they wish HE had ‘something wrong with him’

Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes received an avalanche of backlash from viewers on Sunday night, after Kyle Sandilands’ supposed ‘health crisis tell-all’ was revealed to be nothing but a joke. 

Now, 60 Minutes interviewer Karl Stefanovic has revealed that he too was personally targeted by online trolls in the aftermath of the controversial episode.  

‘I had a few [messages] sent through to me that said, ‘I wish you had something wrong with you, Karlos’. I had quite a few of those,’ Karl admitted on Monday’s episode of The Kyle And Jackie O Show. 

The Today show host’s admission was met with hysterical laughter from Kyle and Jackie.

‘Did you? What’s wrong with people?’ Karl roared. 

Imitating one of his detractors, Karl said: ‘Looks like you’ve got a problem with your heartbeat, Stefanovic!’ 

Earlier in the segment, Kyle acknowledged that his on-screen gaffe had rubbed many viewers the wrong way.  

‘We read a lot of haters out this morning, hating on us, hating on 60 Minutes, hating on me mainly,’ Kyle admitted. 

‘And a lot of talk on how red and beetroot-like I looked on the television,’ he jocularly added.  

60 Minutes was slammed for suggesting in promotional videos Kyle Sandilands would reveal he has been secretly battling a serious health condition – only for the radio king to say he was joking when the segment went to air.

In a preview for the show, Jackie ‘O’ Henderson had tears in her eyes as her KIIS FM colleague told her he had been keeping secret a ‘diagnosis’ for some time.

But Kyle confirmed his big reveal was a wind-up on Sunday night – prompting a furious response from viewers who accused Channel Nine of ‘false advertising’.

‘I love you and it’s been wonderful,’ the 48-year-old said to Jackie in promotions aired all week.

‘[But] there’s a condition I’ve been diagnosed with I haven’t spoken to anyone about.’

In the full version of the segment aired on Sunday night, Kyle answered wryly ‘yeah’ when Jackie asked him if he was joking.

‘You had me – you so had me,’ Jackie responded. ‘That was really cruel – a**hole.’

The stunt drew the ire of former Senator and outspoken commentator Derryn Hinch, who said joking about serious illnesses was no laughing matter.

‘Anybody who has ever been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and had to tell loved ones, would not appreciate Kyle Sandilands’ “joke” tonight,’ he wrote on Twitter.

Entertainment reporter Peter Ford meanwhile said 60 Minutes had gone ‘off brand’ by promoting Kyle ‘ prank as an emotionally charged tell-all interview with the radio shock jock.

‘One thing for to pull a prank about a life threatening illness. That’s on brand. Different thing for to use it in a promo knowing they wouldn’t be delivering. That’s off brand,’ he wrote. 

However, Kyle did reveal elsewhere in the program his blood pressure is so high his death could come ‘at any moment’.

‘I could die – that means at any stage at any time day or night,’ he told host Karl Stefanovic.

The radio host showed the presenter how his home blood pressure machine could not even give a reading because his pressure was so high.