At Sydney Airport this morning, Sandilands replied “What do you mean?”, when a Nine News reporter asked if he was aware of the controversy created by his remarks.
"Not that I’m aware of darl',” he added.
Austereo suspended Sandilands from The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Sydney's 2Day FM last week after he suggested Magda Szubanski would lose more weight if she was in a concentration camp.
Sandilands was broadcasting from Los Angeles at the time.
Today, he denied that he was on his way to crisis talks with his employers over the incident.
"No, I'm back to go back on air next week," he said. "I'm pretty sure (my job's) safe."
Optus pulled their sponsorship of The Kyle and Jackie O Show after Sandilands’ concentration camp comment, while community leaders were up in arms.
Legendary soul singer Renee Geyer, daughter of a Holocaust survivor and whose grandparents were murdered in Auschwitz, went on radio to tearfully blast Sandilands' on-air quip as offensive and hurtful.
Szubanski, whose father was a Polish freedom fighter who hunted down Nazis, said Sandilands' remarks were "abhorrent".
"I couldn't give two hoots about what Kyle says about me, but to trivialise what happened to people in concentration camps is abhorrent," said the TV star, who recently lost 25kg in her battle with obesity.
Qantas and American Express had already yanked their ads from The Kyle and Jackie O Show after last month's on-air debacle involving a 14-year-old rape victim.
Ratings released yesterday suggest that recent scandals have affected ratings.
The figures showed young listeners deserted The Kyle & Jackie O Show, which shed 2.2 percentage points (to a 9.8 per cent share) - or about 35,000 people in Sydney.
An edited version of the show is also broadcast in Melbourne on Fox FM.
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