Kyle Sandilands says he 'never meant to hurt anyone' as he speaks out on controversial Virgin Mary comments

Kyle Sandilands has spoken out one week after making controversial remarks on air about the Virgin Mary.

The Kyle and Jackie O Show host escaped the country last week following the intense backlash he received after the broadcast, but yesterday the shock jock was tracked down by photographers outside his rented LA mansion.

When asked if the 48-year-old regretted calling the Virgin Mary a "liar" who got knocked up "behind a camel shed", Sandilands expressed that he did take his comments too far.

"Yeah, of course. Sometimes you say some things as a joke, and it offends some people and you don't realise until you offend someone. You hear about it, and you think, 'Oh f---, that's pretty s---," he said.

"When you're a comedian you say funny things and you think you're funny, but then you don't realise you piss some people off," he explained. "I already put a statement out saying I never meant to piss anyone off, I never meant to hurt anyone -- I'm here to make people laugh, not to make them angry."

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Indeed, last Friday, Sandilands issued a statement through The Daily Telegraph. 

"I'm sorry if I offended anyone with my comments," he wrote. "Everyone is entitled to their own religious beliefs and I'm fully supportive of that right."

Sandilands' latest apology comes after Christian and Muslim groups called for his sacking following his remarks. 

"I thought Mary was his [Jesus'] girlfriend but apparently it was the mother," Sandilands said during his broadcast on Friday. "And the mother lied obviously and told everyone, 'Nah, I got pregnant by a magical ghost.' Bulls---."