Kylie Minogue
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 2020
- Associated with: Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan
A source told The People newspaper: "Kylie knows she is in a position of influence and wants to use that positively by writing this diary. "She believes that by sharing her experiences she can provide encouragement to those in a similar situation. She wants to get the message over that cancer can strike anybody, no matter how rich or famous. It will be a poignant and powerful read."
Last month the 37-year-old singer was left distraught after doctors told her she was too sick to fly home to Australia for Christmas. Kylie had hoped to jet home from Paris, where she is currently being treated, to be with her family over the festive season. A source told The Sun newspaper: "Doctors have advised her she probably won’t be up to it so she’s decided to stay in Paris. "She’s distraught because it’s going to be a very traumatic time for her rather than the happy family day she’s planned."
Kylie will return to the stage next year - Nov 22, 2020
Kylie Minogue has promised fans she will return to the stage at the end of next year. The pop babe was forced to cancel the Australian leg of her Showgirl tour after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in May - but hopes to make her comeback late in 2006. Fans who bought tickets to the concerts before the tour was cut short will be able to attend the new shows, although exact dates have yet to be announced.
Tour promoter Michael Gudinski revealed: "Kylie’s been thinking about these shows a lot over the past months." He added: "Kylie’s touched that so many of her fans are waiting so patiently for the rescheduling of her Showgirl tour." The 37-year-old star has also announced she will release a digital single featuring live versions of ’Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ and ’Santa Baby’ on Christmas Day this year.
Early next month, singer’s official website, www.kylie.com, will also start selling live audio tracks and video clips from Kylie’s DVD, ’Showgirl - The Greatest Hits Tour’.
Kylie still too ill - Nov 18, 2020
Kylie Minogue has been left distraught after doctors told her she is too ill to fly home to Australia for Christmas. The diminutive singer - who was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year - had hoped to spend the holidays at home with her family. But doctors have warned the 37-year-old star to wait until next year to make the long trip from Paris, where she is currently being treated.
A source is quoted in The Sun newspaper as saying: "Kylie’s last chemo session is on December 18 which doesn’t leave much time before Christmas Day. "She has to have a blood cell count afterwards to check she is well enough to make the very long flight. Doctors have advised her she probably won’t be up to it so she’s decided to stay in Paris. "She’s distraught because it’s going to be a very traumatic time for her rather than the happy family day she’s planned."
Last month it was revealed Kylie is planning to return to her native Australia to skydive over Ayer’s Rock as soon as she is well. The singer told friends she wants to live life to the full after being diagnosed with cancer. She reportedly said: "The time has come to live my life exactly how I want. It’s something I always wanted to do."
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In 1986 Kylie was offered the role of Charlene Mitchell in upcoming soap Neighbours. Her storylines made her a household name in both Australia and the UK and the on screen wedding between Charlene and Scott Robinson (played by Jason Donovan) attracted record numbers of viewers.
Whilst performing The Locomotion on stage at a benefit in 1987 Kylie was spotted by representatives of Mushroom Records who signed her up and released the track. The success of her first release saw Kylie travel to London to meet with pop moguls Stock Aitken and Waterman who penned I Should Be So Lucky for her on the spot. The single was a smash and launched Kylie as one to watch and indeed her debut album became the biggest seller of the year here in the UK.
Panned by critics, Especially For You, a duet recorded with Jason Donovan (by this time a pop star in his own right) was a huge hit in 1989 but Kylie’s follow up album, Enjoy Yourself, whilst successful in Europe and Australia flopped in the US, resulting in the singer being dropped by her American label.
1990 saw Kylie make the first radical adjustment to her image. Gone was the cutesy girl next door in favour of a more sexy look for Better The Devil You Know, while a relationship with bad boy rocker Michael Hutchence cemented Kylie’s new ’cool’ status. Rhythm of Love produced several well received dance-orientated singles and was enough of a success to persuade Kylie to produce a further album despite her contract with PWA being up. Let’s Get To It was a critical success but was her first release to miss the top ten. Realising that she was stifled by the Stock Aitken and Waterman formula she recorded three new tracks for a Greatest Hits album and made a break for it.
So it was time for another change in direction. Kylie went indie following her signing to Deconstruction Records and Confide in Me spent several weeks at the Aussie top spot. The self titled album released alongside sold reasonably well although it received mixed reviews from the press while follow up singles eached top twenty. Elsewhere Kylie went extra dark, appearing on Nick Cave’s Where The Wild Roses Grow, a move which promised a more credible pop star in the future.
By 1997 Kylie had overhauled her image again, and the release of Impossible Princess the following year reflected that. A collaboration with the Manic Street Preachers wasn’t enough to stop the album from becoming the least successful of her releases and the end of Kylie’s pop career looked near.
However a split with Deconstruction resulted in Kylie hooking up with Parlophone and in an explosion of gold glitter and disco the pop starlet burst back on to the scene in an unfeasibly small pair of gold hotpants to promote Spinning Around and accompanying album Light Years. The single was Kylie’s first UK number one in ten years and resulted in a duet with Robbie Williams and a sell out tour. However, it was 2001’s Fever which cemented Kylie’s future. The unforgettable video for impossibly catchy single Can’t Get You Out Of My Head ensured that the track reached number one in over 40 countries. Follow up singles were almost equally successful and the awards flooded in while next album, Body Language, was another hit while Ultimate Kylie, a greatest hits release was accompanied by a lavish tour.
It was during this time that Kylie was diagnosed with breast cancer, much to the shock of her fans. Her headline slot at Glastonbury was cancelled and the rest of the Showgirl tour was postponed but after treatment from Australia and France’s best doctors Kylie was back on the scene looking better than ever. She began work on a new album and released a children’s book The Showgirl Princess closely followed by a perfume, Darling. She resumed her Showgirl tour and split with French boyfriend Olivier Martinez.
Elsewhere Kylie’s film career has been slightly less successful than her musical one. From The Deliquents to Street Fighter she has been panned for her on screen work her only success coming in the form of the green absinthe fairy in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!
updated March 2007
November 2007