Kylie Minogue talks about her career

Kylie Minogue talks about her 'disastrous' acting career

As Kylie Minogue celebrates a quarter of a century in the music industry – she is lauded in some quarters as one of the all-time greats – the former Neighbours star concedes that she seldom hit the same high notes in her film career. “Most of the films I've done were just disastrous,” the singer admits.

Her latest film, Holy Motors, had artistic aspirations, but at Cannes it left critics scratching their heads. Still, it’s a few steps up from The Sullivans. All she remembers of the series she made as a child was how the sets “wobbled.”

Original move

Prince Harry may have attracted some unwelcome headlines, but he still has a fan in Craig Revel Horwood, the Strictly Come Dancing judge. “I met Prince Harry at Westminster and I want him to be my new boyfriend, but unfortunately I don’t think it is going to happen,” the 47 year-old sighs at a party in the West End.

Conveniently, Horwood has an idea that could bring the prince some good PR following his disastrous sojourn in Las Vegas. “I would love to see him on Strictly,” he says. “Maybe, if it were a charity event, we might be able to convince him. He gives it large and he’s just amazing.”

Out of tune
John Suchet, the Classic FM host, has a bone to pick with the radio station that employs him.
The 68 year-old says he was disappointed to discover that he couldn’t play Rodgers and Hammerstein on his radio show. “Sadly Rodgers and Hammerstein is not considered to be classical music,” Suchet laments.
He is campaigning to include at least a few of his favourite shows in the play lists. “I’d love to have more of the old American musicals on Classic FM. West Side Story is considered to be classical, funnily enough.
Recipe for success
As Nick Candy prepares to wed his fiancee Holly Valance in Los Angeles later this summer, it is of little surprise to Mandrake that the vows will not take place in his native Britain.
The real estate entrepreneur says the British don’t encourage success like the Americans. “We have a very bad culture of being dismissive and jealous,” Candy tells me at a Piccadilly gathering. “America are fighting back quicker than anyone as they want people to be successful.”

 

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue: “I’m not shiny and happy all the time”

 

We’re used to thinking of Kylie as a very happy, smiley, shiny lady. Someone who you could do well to describe as “bubbly”, if only “bubbly” didn’t also sometimes mean “a bit chubby”.
But, as it turns out, she has her off days like the rest of us, and how she’s feeling inside doesn’t always match up to the carefree person we see on the outside.
She admitted: "No-one's shiny and happy all the time. There are other sides of me that an experience like this has allowed me to explore,"
In the interview with Total Film, she said: "My persona is 'Kylie'. As soon as I step out of my house I have that projection of me. But that isn't necessarily who I am. What face do I show?"
She revealed that her desire to project this image, to play at being the persona, helped her overcome breast cancer, which she was diagnosed with in 2005.
"Possibly because I was diagnosed mid-tour, that was my goal, to get back and perform. I just realised that no, this is what I do, and I want to do it better than before."

And she did return to top form, with incredible songs like All The Lovers, which got her a number one exactly 22 years after her very first number one. Surely that helps put a smile on her face!
This isn’t the first time Kylie has told us how her stage presence is different from the real her. She recently admitted that despite wearing very little in her recent video for Timebomb, she’s actually quite reserved.
She admitted in a Vevo interview: "I wore a very cheeky little outfit. People don’t believe it but I do get very shy and timid. I was like… ‘Oh god, please can’t there be more to this.’”