Kylie Minogue
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 2020
- Associated with: Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan
Dannii also told Brigitte magazine that she used to fight with Kylie when they were young: "We really used to swear at each other. As kids we used to fight over every centimetre of our room." But she added that now they got on well, saying: "My sister and I have the same filthy sense of humour."
Kylie’s mad fan! - 29/09/03
Petite Pop princess Kylie Mingoue has called in police after receiving a series of menacing death threat Over 700 threatening letters were sent to her record label EMI and addresses near her London home.
The letters, which all bore a West Country postmark, started as ordinary fan mail but have been getting increasingly aggressive over the past year. It was then that Kylie’s management decided to call in police.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "An allegation of harassment was reported at Fulham police station on September 18 on behalf of a Chelsea woman.
"An investigation is ongoing at Fulham CID and at this stage there have been no arrests." No yet there hasn’t!
The Sexiest Music star in the World! - 09/06/03
The viewers of music channel VH1 have awarded Kylie Minogue this flattering accolade.
The 35-year-old star saw off her nearest rival Britney Spears to be the clear winner, leaving Holly Valance and Jennifer Lopez trailing behind in their sequins.
The highest male was Mr Robbie Williams, who at number three well outranked US contender Justin Timberlake, who was placed as number 14.
You can see the full count down from 100 presented by Jodie Kidd this week - from Wednesday to Friday at 9pm.
Kylie leads Ivors list - 23/04/03
Pop princess Kylie Minogue is leading the way with two nominations at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards.
Kylie has been nominated for, Love At First Sight and In Your Eyes, in the PRS most performed work category, against Liberty X’s Just a Little.
The Ivors, which are regarded as one of the most distinguished awards in British music, will be awarded on 22 May.
Last year Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head won three awards, including best dance tracks, most performed work and international hit of the year.
The Ivors winners are voted for by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
Kylie is currently looking for an LA love nest to share with new love Olivier Martinez.
According to Beverly Hills agent Vee Fortson, they are said to be looking for somewhere priced up to ?8 million, which has a gym, large guest house, pool and space for a recording studio and tennis court.
Kylie furious at kiss and tell - 10/03/03
Kylie Minogue is reported to be ’furious’ and ’numb’ after her ex-boyfriend James Gooding sold his story to the News of the World...
Gooding revealed private details of their relationship in return for cash. She has told friends and family that she will never forgive cad Gooding for selling kiss-and-tell revelations about their stormy three-year affair to a newspaper.
Meanwhile Kylie is in the throes of a new romance with French actor Olivier Martinez, and is due to fly home to Melbourne, Australia, this week to try to get as far away from Gooding as possible and spend some time with her mum and dad.
Justin, James & that famous bottom -21/02/03
Kylie Minogue stole the show at The Brits last night, by doing a steamy duet with Justin Timberlake, although it was her ex James Gooding’s behaviour that got everyone talking.
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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