Jackie O reveals awful nickname she was given in her early career days
Jackie O Henderson has recalled the awful nickname she was given by upper radio management at the start of her career.
The 48-year-old started her career in the media after ringing a station to win Guns N' Roses concert tickets, which led to a role answering phones for the station.
Chatting candidly on The Kyle and Jackie O Show, she revealed, "I was called "Jackie the Phone Tart'."
The nickname was perpetuated by an influx of hate from some radio listeners, particularly boy band fans who mistakenly believed she was sleeping with their idols when they came into the station for interviews.
"I'd get all this hate [from fans] because my name was "tart" and they all thought, 'Oh, she's in there making moves, you know, being a sl*t'."
"So I changed [my nickname]," added the radio host.
Jackie has previously explained that while she was living on the Gold Coast as a teenager, she would call up the local Sea FM station in the early 90s in a bid to score concert tickets from radio host 'Ugly' Phil O'Neil.
"I never worked at Sea FM," she said, adding that Ugly Phil took her out "on a date" after asking her to come and visit the radio station and collect the concert tickets she had won.
Jackie recalled the pair had only been together for three months before he was offered a radio job in Canberra.
"I moved with him because we were in a relationship," she added.
The couple then relocated to Adelaide where Jackie got offered a job "on the phones" at the station where Phil hosted a show.
"The rest is history," Jackie said.
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