Kylie Minogue
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 2020
- Associated with: Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan
The doctors are saying she’ll be done with chemo by then, so she’ll be ready for a fresh start - what better way to start the new year than with a new life as Mrs Olivier Martinez." Kylie, recovering from her latest round of cancer treatment, and actor Olivier are now organising the ceremony while staying at the Biarritz holiday home of good friend and designer Karl Lagerfeld.
Kylie’s cancer shock - May 05
Kylie Minogue has breast cancer. The princess of pop has cancelled her flamboyant Showgirl tour with the news that she has been recently diagnosed with the disease. According to her promoter, Michael Gudinski, the diagnosis was made early on and Kylie is expected to make a speedy recovery with help from the very best doctors.
Oddly, the news comes just weeks after reports that Kylie is allowing her career to take a back seat for a while as she concentrates on her personal life were released. Now, of course, the singer plans to take time off for recuperation and it seems likely that she will be out of the spotlight now for quite some time. In addition to the cancellation of her tour, Kylie will also pull out of her headline slot at Glastonbury.
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Kylie dumps stylist - Apr 05
Kylie Minogue has dumped the man behind the gold hotpants. It’s a sad day for fashion - Kylie has parted ways with William Baker mid-way through her current Showgirl tour. Baker, who pioneered the gold hotpants that relaunched the singer’s career and secured her status as a sex symbol apparently intended that the partnership should finish around now and plans to go on to new projects while Kylie insists he is still a close friend.
Drummer girl - Apr 05
Kylie Minogue is learning to play the drums so she can pull off the rock chick thing. The Aussie singer is learning to play in preparation for her headline appearance at this summer’s Glastonbury. We can’t help but wonder how she will fit it in to her all singing, all dancing performance. Ewwww!
Kylie’s raunchy stories - Apr 05
Kylie Minogue has been swapping raunchy stories with Prince Charles. The pop princess apparently spiced up the conversation at a charity dinner when she was seated next to the prince by talking rampant rabbits. "I told him this story about how I once performed with Dame Edna creator Barry Humphries. I duetted with him as his character Sir Les Patterson and he chased me round the stage with a large prosthetic penis," she revealed. However, she only realised when she got home that most people would frown on the conversation "it must be the Aussie in me," she explains.
Kylie’s Oscar hopes - Mar 05
Kylie Minogue wants to win an Oscar. The Aussie songstress has told Ok! magazine that she won’t give up on acting any time soon, despite the fact that her career so far has been all about the music. "I always wanted to be an actress, I want to win an Oscar," she told the magazine "after Neighbours I went in to music and all of a sudden eighteen years have gone by!" She went on to explain that "no one ever said I was a bad actress, they just said I had chosen some turkeys." She’s not wrong, anyone remember Street Fighter?
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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