Bill Shorten’s embarrassing admission on the Kyle and Jackie O show

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• published: 22 Jun 2016
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IT’S something many do in secret, but Bill Shorten has owned up to it on live radio this morning during a game of “never have I ever”. The Opposition Leader was lured into the game during an appearance on the Kyle and Jackie O Show, who he described as “FM royalty”. Kyle was quick to praise Mr Shorten for joining the KIIS FM team and later said that the Prime Minister’s office had not even bothered ringing back or returning an email. “It’s like we don’t even exist,” he said. But Mr Shorten may well regret his appearance after he was lured into a game of “never have I ever” that revealed an embarrassing toilet habit. The first question was whether he had ever worn another person’s underwear? Shorten’s answer: “never”. He had no problem either when asked whether he had ever been inside a strip club, laughing the question off with his response: “I have, once or twice back in the day”. But when the segment asked whether he had ever used a phone to call someone while on the toilet, he let off an embarrassed squeak. Mr Shorten initially said he was “pleading the fifth” on the question, referring to the US law that allows someone to avoid answering a question that might incriminate them. But then goes on to elaborate that you “sometimes forget to turn the phone off ... because you shouldn’t have a conversation” and laughed awkwardly while Kyle discussed muffling the echo. He also admitted to calling in sick because he was hung-over “back in the day”. Meanwhile he provided a mysterious response to a question about whether he had ever said the wrong thing during sex: “I’m not even going there”, leading Jackie O to say: “You have by the sounds of it”. Other things Mr Shorten has never done were keep the tags on a piece of clothing and return it after wearing it, had sex against a washing machine, or asked someone else to do his work and pretended it was his own, although he did give a call-out to some of his team: “I have got a great team of advisers”. Earlier Mr Shorten was asked for his opinion on matters including Eddie McGuire’s comments (“completely inappropriate”), whether the Prime Minister gets paid too much (“the issue is some banking executives get paid too much”) and why the working class voted in the Liberals (“I think in 2013 people had enough of Labor and wanted to give Tony Abbott a go”). By the end of the interview Mr Shorten joked he was “emotionally drained” and said “is that the time?”