Kylie Minogue
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 2020
- Associated with: Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan
The appearance on February 28 is to promote her forthcoming (ironically titled) single Red Blooded Woman, released March 1. The singer has always had a strong gay following since her dungaree days as Neighbour’s mechanic Charleene Ramsey, and has also recently branched out into her own lingerie range - is there no end to this woman’s talents? No doubt the crowd will be more interested to know whether hunky french boyfriend Olivier Martinez will be there to cheer her on. By Hannah Mills
Love Kylie - Love Olivier! - Feb
Kylie Minogue’s parents were so taken with her boyfriend when she took him home to Oz for Christmas.
Christmas was the scary ’meet the parents’ time for Olivier Martinez, but all went well, with him positively enthralling Dad Ron and Mum Carol. Kylie said ’My parents hit if off with him straight away.
"It was Olivier this and Olivier that - and I’m, like: "Hello, I’m here too!"
She went on to say that she hopes Olivier will be able to come on tour with her. She told The Sun ’If and when I go on tour hopefully Olivier won’t be doing a film and can come with me.
"I can be more flexible than him at the moment. If he has to film somewhere for three months he’ll say it’s my turn to go backward and forward, as I did when he was filming in Montreal recently."
Bet I could date Kylie! - 02/01/04
Law student Brett Allen has made a bet with the bookies that he can convince pop princess Kylie Minogue to go on a date with him in 2004.
Twenty-one year old Brett gave ?25 to bookmakers William Hill, betting on himself achieving the date over the next twelve months. The bookies kindly gave him flattering odds of 100/1, so if the dream date does go ahead he stands to win a payout of ?2,500.
Brett said: "100/1 sounds like I would have a good chance. It’s nice to think that I have got a much better chance of dating Kylie than winning the lottery."
William Hill said the student would have to spend a minimum of two hours on a date with the star in 2004 for them to pay out on the bet.
Kylie’s chocolate obsession - 15/11/03
Women rejoice everywhere, perfect bum Kylie Minogue has confessed to a chocolate croissant habit - ooo la la!
Kylie says the she eats the naughty patisserie nearly every day and is enjoying her new fuller figure. Has anyone else noticed she now has a ’fuller’ figure? No - me neither but still, chocolate croissants are always good, and a sign that she must be enjoying the Continental side of life now she has French boyfriend Olivier Martinez in her life.
Kylie said ’I’m just feeling a lot more content and a lot more sensual.’ When asked about marriage plans she joked ’I haven’t got a ring, and no, he did not get down on one knee and sing I can’t get you out of my head. I’m not engaged.’
Sister was a ’total pain’ - 03/11/03
Although now great friends, Kylie said that she thought sis Dannii was a ’total pain in the neck’ when they were growing up together.
Kylie was speaking to a German magazine Brigittte, and she said that she used to hate sharing a bedroom with her younger sister. She said: "Dannii was a total pain in the neck. At one point I’d just had enough and decided that the room had to be divided up.
"Our parents put a wardrobe between the two halves of the room as a dividing line. But the stupid thing was that it could be opened from both sides, which meant that we annoyed each other all over again.’’
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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