Kylie Minogue
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 2020
- Associated with: Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan
Kylie’s trout pout? - Jan 05
Kylie Minogue shows tell tale signs of lip surgery. Remember the terrible fate of Leslie Ash? You’d think stars, especially those as perfect as Kylie would have taken note. Alas, it seems that having the world’s best bottom wasn’t enough for the pint sized pop princess and that she was after a bottom lip to match. At the Chanel show in Paris Kylie was seen sporting the tell tale swelling and upturned lips that commonly point to surgery. The star’s publicist has refused to comment although it seems that our Kyles can’t go on telling us that she’s all natural after this one.
Kylie sues - Jan 05
Kylie Minogue sues Pete Waterman for missing royalties. A specialist royalties company has reportedly informed the pop star that PWL, the company that launched her career with I Should Be So Lucky, The Locomotion and Tears On My Pillow among others owe her close to half a million in royalties. The money was made by PWL when a Best Of. compilation was released in 1992 and then re-released in 2002. Pop svengali Pete will face Kylie in court over the money later in the year.
Ready to retire? - Nov 04
Kylie has hinted that she is ready to call it a day, but then again she did ’hint’ last year that she would never wear hot pants again.
Talking to GQ magazine, Kylie said ’My life has been very full and rewarding but I’ve been doing the same thing for a long time. "And yeah, there is something missing. There are a number of things missing. But I think they’re coming when they’re meant to come." Kylie is due to star in next year’s Showgirl tour.
Kylie’s steamy calls - Nov 04
Kylie Minogue has admitted that she and boyfriend Olivier enjoy phone sex. The petite star, determined to end rumours of problems in her relationship once and for all, confessed that she and French actor Olivier Martinez keep their love alive over the phone. Kylie told onlookers at the launch of her new lingerie range that the pair exchange saucy texts and often get a bit steamy on the phone. "The bills are quite high," she giggled "but it’s the way we communicate with each other." She also admitted that she found it very hard being so far away from Olivier, who is currently away in LA filming The Snow Goose but insisted that, despite tabloid rumours, they are still very much in love.
Kylie’s grand tour - Oct 04
Kylie has announced that she is to embark on greatest hits tour. The princess of pop has released details of her biggest and best tour yet to celebrate the release of her greatest hits album Ultimate Kylie. The 2005 Showgirl tour will take in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow and Kylie has assured fans that it will be her most spectacular show yet "I’m so excited to tour again." She explained "This will be the culmination of everything I’ve done so far with quite a few surprises." But the question on everyone’s lips is will she get Jason on stage for a rousing rendition of Especially For You? We must know!!
Kylie’s baby desperation - August 04
Kylie Minogue is so desperate to have a baby she will quit pop music if necessary.
Friends of the petite popstar have said that she will sacrifice her high flying career if it means motherhood. Kylie has been with Olivier Martinez now for 18 months and the pair have already been snapped buying pregnancy tests so it seems only a matter of time before we hear the pitter patter of Minogue-Martinez feet, but does that mean no more hit singles?
Is she having a baby? - April 04
The rumours are growing that Miss Minogue could be pregnant, she ditched a high energy dance routine at the weekend.
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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