Kylie Minogue
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 2020
- Associated with: Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan
Kylie moves out from her Chelsea home - Mar 05
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Kylie Minogue has some removal men in at her Chelsea home and it looks like she’s moving out. Her chauffeur helps out with the delicate items and puts them in the waiting van. Kylie has just started out on her ’Showgirl’ tour which will take her across Europe and Australia and but where the singer will be living when returns is a mystery.
Kylie’s secret hideout - Mar 05
Kylie Minogue buys secret holiday home to get away from fame.
The pop singer has splashed out an estimated $400,000 on a home on an isolated French island off the coast of Melbourne, Australia. Apparently the island is home to 3,000 koala bears, outnumbering the 90 human residents, making it the ideal home for the press hassled star. The estate agent who sold Kylie the home said that she will share the house with her family and that they decided not to see any beach houses because they were concerned about press flotillas.
Kylie loses out to Salma? - Mar 05
Kylie’s boyfriend gets up close and personal with Salma Hayek.
Pictures of Olivier Martinez out and about with Salma Hayek have fuelled rumours that he has split with Kylie. Apparently the two actors were seen out and about four nights in a row looking very cosy indeed, on one occasion feeding sushi to each other in a restaurant. This isn’t the first time Martinez has been linked with another woman; he was recently spotted kissing S.W.A.T co-star Michelle Rodriguez. Kylie style - Feb 05
Kylie Minogue picks up style award. The petite songstress joined fellow Aussie Cate Blanchett in taking the Elle Style Awards by storm - the pair taking three gongs between them. Kylie was rewarded for her ever changing style, no real surprise since the Queen of reinvention, Madonna, has taken to dressing like a kindly old Aunt recently leaving Minogue to take the style reins.
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Sexy-something - Feb 05
Kylie is named Sexiest Thirtysomething. 36 year old Kylie beat off competition from the likes of Kate Moss, Liz Hurley and Catherine Zeta Jones to be named Sexiest Thirtysomething in a poll conducted by Good Housekeeping Magazine. They also found Elle MacPherson to be the sexiest woman over forty, Joanna Lumley raised a champers glass for the fifty pluses while Catherine Deneuve and Honor Blackman are still going strong in their sixties and seventies.
Kylie’s magic - Jan 05
Kylie steals the show at Magic Roundabout premiere. The petite popster was undoubtedly the star of the red carpet last night as she arrived for the premiere of her latest movie, The Magic Roundabout, adapted from the famous kids TV show, at Leicester Square’s Vue cinema.
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Kylie to headline Glasto - Jan 05
Kylie Minogue will headline rock’s biggest annual event. According to reports Britain’s favourite Aussie pop star will be headlining Glastonbury this year. Kylie has apparently been in discussions with the festival’s organisers for months and is thrilled to be headlining at her first ever Glasto.
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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