Kylie Minogue
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 1968
- Associated with: Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan
The insider added: "Billie Piper did Shakespeare for us brilliantly and we think Kylie would be just as good. Or maybe she could even turn up as herself on Ashes To Ashes..."
But a spokesperson for the 39-year-old singer couldn’t confirm whether there are any such projects in the pipeline.
"She gets offers all the time which she and her manager review, but there is nothing specific being discussed at the moment," the spokesperson is quoted as saying.
Kylie ’deeply touched’ by OBE - Dec 31 2007
Kylie Minogue has said she was "deeply touched" to be awarded an OBE by the country she calls her adopted home.
The 39-year-old thanked her British fans for their love and support during her recovery from breast cancer.
Speaking from Australia, where she was spending the Christmas holiday with family in Melbourne, she said: "I am almost as surprised as I am honoured to be awarded an OBE by Her Majesty The Queen. I feel deeply touched to be acknowledged by the UK, my adopted home, in this way."
She added: "This last year I have felt so much love and support from everyone as I took greater steps back into the public domain, and it is with absolute gratitude and joy that I say farewell to 2007 and look forward to what the New Year will bring."
Kylie’s OBE for services to music in the New Year’s Honours list comes nearly 20 years since I Should Be So Lucky became her first UK No 1.
In 2005, Kylie - who found fame in Aussie soap Neighbours in the 80s - shocked fans by announcing she had breast cancer mid-way through her Showgirl tour.
But in the last few months of 2007 she’s made a full return to the limelight with the release of new album X, and a role in the Doctor Who Christmas special.
Kylie, like never before? - Dec 20 2007
Apparently Kylie Minogue has sent a new song to Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, revealing a side of her character that has never been seen before.
But according to digitalspy.co.uk, the electro-pop group turned down the offering because it contained farmyard noises and they were not "into it".
The star apparently told NME: "Basically, Kylie Minogue wrote a song for us, but we weren’t totally into it for this album. She sent it through our management to us - it was totally bizarre."
He reportedly continued: "It’s a crazy song. It’s industrial and clanging and even has farmyard animal noises on it. It’s the kind of music you’d never normally associate with Kylie."
But sadly it seems we won’t be treated to this latest Kylie offering for a while.
However, Joe apparently promised that when it is released, it will change the way we look at the veteran songstress.
"I’m not allowed to send it to anyone yet," he reportedly said, "but when I am it’s going to change a few people’s ideas about her. Maybe it’s one for our next album, after Made In The Dark."
Kylie’s cancer fears - Nov 13 2007
Kylie Minogue has apparently admitted that she worries her cancer will return when she feels under the weather.
The Aussie singer, 39, beat breast cancer after being diagnosed in 2005 - and has since been back on the road and released new material.
"Your body and muscles have a memory of the way it was when you were sick and there are definitely times when I float back to that place," the Daily Mirror reported her saying.
"I had migraines a few weeks ago and I just went, ’Yeesh, - no, please’."
She also revealed her hair had grown back thicker and curlier since chemotherapy caused it to fall out.
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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
February 2008