Text Keith Urban sent Kyle Sandilands that made him suspect divorce

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman’s break-up shocked the world in September, but Kyle Sandilands has revealed a single text message raised alarm bells for him before the news broke.

Sandilands, 55, dropped the bombshell during his Kyle Sandilands Live show on Wednesday, while discussing the former couple’s divorce.

“Before it was announced, Keith sent me a text,” Sandilands said.

“He was coming out to Australia. He’s a good guy ... He sent me a text and I didn’t even put two and two together. He said, ‘Bro, when I get there, we MUST catch up.’ ”

Looking back, Sandilands believed it may have been Urban, 58, reaching out for support.

“I looked back at that and thought, ‘aha.’ I didn’t realise what he was saying then,” he said, adding that they didn’t meet up.

He now looked back at a previous interview with Urban, on his since-axed Kyle & Jackie O radio show, with a similar perspective.

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He remembered joking to Urban about being unable to watch Kidman, 59, in steamy film scenes, only to find the musician was “prickly”.

“I think I said to him, ‘Mate, I can’t watch your wife’s films. I can’t watch her banging these young hotties, they’re too graphic, and I know her as your wife.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, next question.’ I was quite shocked,” he said.

“I thought, ‘There’s something going on there.’ But then again, because they were such a great couple, I just dismissed my feelings as stupidity.”

Producer Jaimee ‘Mayo’ Blazquez agreed with her boss’s recollection, saying staff realised “that’s some real feelings there” after the uncomfortable moment.

Sandilands also shared why he believed the former couple parted ways after 19 years of marriage.

“Keith is a really nice guy and Nicole is super sweet as well. Some of these relationships just come to a natural end,” he said.

“When you’re in the spotlight like these two, both super famous people who are really quite private, they don’t air the dirty laundry. They are just two really sweet people … I like them both still very much. I wouldn’t take sides.”