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The Showgirl must go on
11.11.2006

Tonight, after a year battling cancer, Kylie Minogue steps back into the spotlight. But which Kylie will she unveil? The former soap star has endured countless reinventions over the past 20 years, often at the hands of men.

Peter Conrad analyses a cultural phenomenon.

A "KYLIE" IS A boomerang. If you throw it, it is guaranteed to come twirling home, even though it may have felled a kangaroo or a kookaburra along the way. Kylie Minogue is as resilient as the wooden missile she was named after. After a year in oblivion, during her treatment for the breast cancer diagnosed in May 2005, she has now rebounded and performs in Sydney tonight with her rescheduled Showgirl Homecoming tour. You can't - to paraphrase one of her chirpy anthems - get her out of your head; just when you think you have succeeded, she whizzes into view again and, like that runaway boomerang, thumps you behind the ears.

Performers who survive do so by practising the art of reincarnation. They are reborn without having to die; few of them confront the reality of extinction. In her mid-year Sky interview, Kylie remarked that, with her cancer in remission, she now had "a second chance at life - a new life".

She has notched up many lives, having spent the past 20 years ingeniously reinventing herself. First was the shrill moppet who rampaged on kiddy television in Melbourne, then the nubile adolescent who smooched with the Speedo-clad Jason Donovan in Neighbours. After her move to England in the 1990s, the succession of personae accelerated: Kylie the irrepressibly agile disco dervish, Kylie the slinky torch singer, Kylie the bedizened, ornamental diva.

By the time of her original Showgirl tour - which was suspended after she fell ill - the singing budgie, as she was once known, had been transformed into a pink flamingo, flaunting exotic plumage and tottering on stilted Manolo Blahnik heels. The makeover that followed was drastic, unexpected and unstylish. Garbo-esque dark glasses shielded a gaunt, pinched face, and a scarf covered her hair loss after chemotherapy.

She recently re-emerged, with a resurgent smile and a jaunty tomboyish crop. She has even resumed the public duties of the celebrity, responsible for keeping up communal morale. In June, as Australia's team rampaged through the first round of the World Cup, Kylie was accused of treason - yes, that was the word - for supporting France, in deference to her lover, Olivier Martinez. She issued an indignant statement insisting that she was "right behind our boys", but the Socceroos lost out anyway.

Deflecting curiosity in 2002, Kylie said she could not imagine writing her memoirs: "I don't feel there's much of a story to tell." Unintrospective on principle, she happily defines herself as "a manufactured product", engineered by the marketers. Of course, she is merchandise, and she exists to sell trinkets and trophies that have been graced by association with her. The impresario Pete Waterman, who hired her for his aptly-named Hit Factory record label in 1987, remarked when they met that, "there was something about her. If you could bottle it, you'd be a billionaire."

Evian eventually did bottle Kylie, dedicating a limited edition of its alpine water to her as the embodiment of health and youthful vitality. In his film Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann decanted her into a different bottle by casting her as the absinthe fairy - addictive, decadent, deranging.

The contrast tells you everything about the passive, eclectic Kylie: she is whatever label you affix to her. As a brand, she sells female underwear in tantalising black lace and T-shirts that sculpt the pecs of her gay male admirers. If you're pre-pubescent, you can wear a Smiley Kylie on your undeveloped chest while reading her book Showgirl Princess, (published by Puffin). She can be downloaded on to your phone, which will do the locomotion or chant "lalalala" or congratulate you on being "lucky lucky lucky" whenever it rings. The very essence of Kylie, vaporising as scent, can perfume your clothes, exuded from her drawer-liners, and, in the form of a candle, she will pervade the air you breathe.

Her appeal at first lay in her unapologetic ordinariness. In Neighbours she played an oil-smudged mechanic with no desire to better herself. Charlene was happy to spend her life grappling with the intestines of greasy cars.

I always found Charlene's slovenly lack of ambition irritating. She implicitly assured the schoolkids who cut classes to watch Neighbours that there was no point in acquiring an education: why not be a grease monkey when you grew up?

Kylie, to her credit, had loftier ideas. She disposed of Charlene and quit Melbourne for London. She also binned those baggy dungarees and pretty soon shimmied into a pair of gold lame hotpants which rode up when she danced.

Her musical career began accidentally - which is a polite way of saying that talent had little to do with it. Her sister Dannii was the singer in the family; but at a football fund-raiser attended by the cast of Neighbours, Kylie gave an impromptu performance of The Loco-Motion, which persuaded a television producer that she was exploitable. Neighbours had taught her to be a docile employee, mumbling half-remembered lines as the cardboard sets shuddered. She was equally industrious when inducted into the Hit Factory. She squealed and jived to order, and the repetitiveness of her lyrics - all those "lalalas" and "luckys" - together with the synthesised backbeat turned her into a lubricious automaton.

After a few years she resigned from the Factory, joined the independent label deConstruction, and immediately began to deconstruct herself. "I started," she said, "to experiment where I could: with image." The experimentation was iconographic, not musical. Now the singing and dancing were a pretext for Kylie's self-presentation, and recording sessions became less important than photo shoots. Kylie conscientiously worked her way through a history of female archetypes. She preened in cashmere and pearls like Grace Kelly, but she also pouted like Monroe and flipped up her skimpy skirt like the tennis player in the "Athena" calendar. She pretended to be a galactic courtesan like Jane Fonda's Barbarella, or messed up her hair and made herself look feral and lustful like Bardot.

The photographer Stephane Sednaoui, her lover for a while, dressed her as a geisha with a pin-cushion on her head, which officially transformed her into a sex toy. At the same time she butched up in army fatigues for the film Street Fighter, a woeful spin-off from an arcade game in which she does battle with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Since Kylie is only five feet tall, her paramilitary swaggering fails to daunt the muscles from Brussels.

The roles she played jarringly contradicted each other, but Kylie took pride in her inauthenticity. One of her albums admitted as much in its title: it summed her up as an Impossible Princess. In a photo story for Australian Vogue, Luhrmann joked more dangerously about the nonentity that lay beneath this versatile shape-changing. Hiring Bert Stern as his photographer, he made Kylie act out the life story of an imaginary starlet. "Who's that girl?" asked one of Luhrmann's made-up magazine headlines. No one knew, not even the girl herself.

The image was hers, but the image makers were men, who had agendas of their own - sometimes reverential, more often vindictive. Michael Hutchence, the byronic lead singer of INXS, boasted during their raunchy affair that his hobby was "corrupting Kylie". There were rumours of handcuffs setting off metal detectors at airports, and copulation in lavatories at 30,000 feet.

Having been depraved by Hutchence, she allowed herself to be slaughtered by Nick Cave, who in their duet, Where The Wild Roses Grow, battered her with a rock, then stuck a crimson flower between her teeth.

Even more gruesome was the tribute paid to her by Sir Les Patterson, when she appeared with Barry Humphries at Cave's Meltdown Festival in London. Sir Les, dribbling as he fumbled in his stained Y-fronts, unfurled what can only be described as the phallic equivalent of an anaconda. He flourished this retractable penis at Kylie, who fled screaming.

In Moulin Rouge, Luhrmann made her look fiendish. The hallucinatory green pixie that wriggles out of the absinthe bottle bumps and grinds, expands into a chorus of lookalikes as the drug goes to work on Ewan McGregor, then screeches towards him, fangs bared and febrile, wings buzzing like a manic mosquito.

No wonder then that the ravaged Kylie decided to trust in the more gently fussy ministrations of William Baker. They met when he was a shop assistant in Vivienne Westwood's boutique; before long she had enrolled him as her "creative director".

Baker studied theology before he diverged into millinery, and - aware that celebrities are man-made gods - he made it his business to sanctify Kylie. For the video of Can't Get You Out Of My Head, he swathed her in a hooded shroud with slits up the legs. This, he believed, evoked "the whole Virgin Mary thing", although the immaculate Kylie was also a "modern Venus", a pagan hoyden who wrapped her thighs around a pole as she cavorted.

"Everyone should have a Willie," Kylie once remarked with a naughty giggle. Willie himself has sometimes seemed to lack one: in his book about their friendship, he remembers shrieking round his flat as he tried on some silicon boobs with adhesive nipples he had found for Kylie to wear. He creatively directed her to sway on spiky stilettos, with sequined corsets slicing into her armpits and clamping her midriff while plumed headdresses nodded above her.

As a result she began to resemble a drag queen impersonating Kylie. Baker adored her because he wanted to be her, and she consented to the usurpation with her usual good humour. But should a man really say - as Baker does when he refers to his discussions with Kylie about selling her line of lingerie - that "the decision to move into knickers and bras was a long-term ambition for us both"? He saw her as an example of "artificial femininity": it didn't occur to him, or for a while to Kylie herself, that gender might have as much to do with nature as with cosmetics and semiotics. "In Kylie," Baker bragged, "I have the perfect canvas for my fantasies."

A victim of the fantasies of others, she seemingly had no fantasies of her own. In her leisure, she told Elle a while ago, she likes to dust, or she gets her rubber gloves on and scours the sink.

Spiritually, she still resides in humdrum, squeaky-clean Ramsay Street. She revisited the Melbourne suburbs in 2004 as a guest on the brilliant sitcom Kath & Kim, and gallantly volunteered to be derided. The pretentious Kath tells the fat slacker Kim that Kylie's coming over. "Kylie who?" yawns Kim. When Kylie turns up, Kim offers her a glass of the wine she calls "Cardonnay". Kath corrects her pronunciation, but Kylie sweetly rescues Kim from humiliation: "I've been to Paris," she says, "and the h is silent there." In a dreamy preview of the future, she plays Kim's daughter, whose wedding dress salaciously restyles the one Kylie wore in Neighbours 16 years before.

Eponee Raelene Kathleen Darlene Charlene gets married in a spangled G-string, diamante garters and thigh-high vinyl boots, with a coy veil perched on her perm. She looks, someone gasps, just like "a fairytale princess", but her vowels drone and drawl like a trapped blowfly. Reinvention, on this occasion, involved a retrieval of the remote, embarrassing past. But Kylie relishes a joke against herself, which attunes her to Australia's national habit of self-deprecation, and helps to explain her popularity. At the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics she abandoned her transvestite finery and rode triumphantly into the arena on a thong the size of a Pacific atoll, attended by a choir of prawns that had escaped from a barbecue.

All the same, her irony could not save her from spasms of confusion as she watched her image take on its own inflated, autonomous life. In a ballet he choreographed at Sadler's Wells, Rafael Bonachela projected her on to a gauze screen nine metres high. She became - as Baker says with his customary mystical awe - "an ethereal presence made up solely of light particles". The show left Kylie feeling ill, dismayed by her inadequacy or her personal irrelevance. Others might want to install her in the sky, but in her own opinion she was at best "a watery icon" - diluted, adulterated, devalued by over-exposure.

She began to complain of her estrangement from her most intimate assets. "I mean," she asked a little plaintively, "what does my bum do? It's not like it can actually do anything - except wiggle."

She kept going by the rigorous exercise of will. In her photographs, the face is a mask, as impervious as Ned Kelly's helmet, and the smile displays a double row of perfect teeth that could be an electrified fence. She managed to combine self-display with a clenched, retentive withdrawal.

On stage she wore what Hutchence once described to her as an "ego jacket": a persona that functioned like a bullet-proof vest. Was the interior hollow? When she broke up with the male model James Gooding, he called her a friendless, robotic control freak. For one of her tours, Baker dehumanised her. Surrounded by silver-suited astronauts, she stripped mechanistically somewhere in outer space, with the jerky movements of a cyborg.

Before her illness last year, she had begun to talk about "reclaiming myself". The phrase was a plaintive reminder that celebrities are owned by their fans, their minders, their merchandisers, and the photographers who spy on them, not by themselves. But reclamation is hard if you're not sure whether you possess a self in the first place. Her earliest effort to be simply Kylie, with no help from feathered frippery or electronic decibels, was traumatic.

At the Poetry Olympics in 1996, Cave persuaded her to recite the inane lyrics of I Should Be So Lucky from the stage of the Albert Hall. It was an act of self-destruction performed in public; burbling to cover her distress, she called the ordeal "beyond post-modern".

More recently she has discovered that peace comes with self-obliteration. In Paris with Martinez, the monoglot Kylie cannot keep up with the voluble chatter of his friends and family, so she lets them talk and is relieved to be ignored. For someone who has always existed to be looked at, happiness means invisibility. "I can observe and drift off ," she has said in describing these domestic evenings.

During her year of medical treatment, she relied on a camera to cheer her up: she recorded a video diary chronicling her ups and downs, snippets of which were shown in the Sky interview. Here she confides in the camera, rather than seeking to dazzle or deceive it; she reveals to it the fragile, damaged truth.

The best way to celebrate a new life is by discarding the old one. Kylie, the exhibition of her costumes, from the grubby overalls Charlene wore at the garage to the gladrags designed by Thierry Mugler, Julien Macdonald, Stella McCartney and the rest, curated and designed by the Victorian Arts Centre, will next year tour overseas. Drawing from more than 600 items donated by Kylie to the Arts Centre's Performing Arts Collection, the exhibition has attracted more than 500,000 visitors during its four-city tour of Australia. These are her shed skins; what better place for them than a museum, which is a kind of mausoleum?

Her clothes and accessories magnified her. Those four-inch heels were elevators, like the buskins on which actors strutted in the Greek theatre. Her hats were astral: on the Showgirl tour she wore the horned moon on her head. Without these props, and without her cascade of curls, she has nowhere to hide. But the first glimpses of the new Kylie are encouraging. Instead of preening or smouldering, she looks loveable; her rabbity grin is ingratiating, not haughtily glamorous. And the shorn hair draws attention to her most underrated feature - a quirky eyebrow that arches upwards, signalling the quizzical, detached gaze of the ironist.

My favourite image of Kylie was taken in 1993 by Stern, to conclude Luhrmann's biography of that fabricated starlet. An elderly Kylie, with age entrenched on her face and a black wig glued to her skull, applies paint to her puffy lips; some crude retouching restores the line of a jaw that has turned jowly, and a hedge of feathers disguises a scrawny neck. Her complicity in this tells you everything about her, revealing both her matey modesty and her gnawing insecurity.

I am glad she's back. Now we can all grow old together.

The life of Kylie

1968 Born to Ron and Carol in Melbourne.

1986 After a childhood of acting, gets her big break in Neighbours.

1987 Her performance of Little Eva's The Loco-Motion at a football charity event earns her a record deal and seven weeks at number one in Australia with the song. Snapped up by Stock, Aitken & Waterman, who pen I Should Be So Lucky, her first hit in the UK.

1993 Begins her indie phase on deConstruction Records, working with Pet Shop Boys, M People and Nick Cave.

1997 Collaborates with James Dean Bradfield on the Impossible Princess album, retitled Kylie Minogue in the UK following the death of Princess Diana.

1999 Moves to Parlophone, returning with a disco reinvention.

2000 Performs Dancing Queen at the Sydney Olympics.

2005 Embarks on the Showgirl tour. Dates, including the headline slot at Glastonbury, are cancelled following her breast cancer diagnosis.Tickets are still available for Kylie's Showgirl Homecoming Tour.

Melbourne dates:

Sunday, December 10 Rod Laver Arena
Monday, December 11 Rod Laver Arena
Wednesday, December 13 Rod Laver Arena
Thursday, December 14 Rod Laver Arena
Saturday, December 16 Rod Laver Arena
Sunday, December 17 Rod Laver Arena

Tickets available from Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au

- THE OBSERVER

Quelle: The Age

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Showgirl Kylie kicks off her Aussie tour this weekend!
11.11.2006

Kylie's much anticipated Showgirl Homecoming tour kicks off this Saturday 11 November at Sydney Entertainment Centre and the excitement is shifting into overdrive!

Performing at Sydney Entertainment Centre for 3 nights, Kylie will then travel to Brisbane for three concerts, return to Sydney for a further three, and then continue on for shows in Adelaide (2), Perth (3) and Melbourne (6). Fans can still secure tickets to most concert dates.

In total Kylie will perform a phenomenal twenty concerts across Australia between November 11 and December 17, 2006.

Costume details and the set list for Kylie's return to stage have been a closely guarded secret, and will be unveiled for the first time on Saturday 11 November to more than 10,000 fans attending the world premier of Kylie's Showgirl Homecoming tour.

Putting a show on the road of the magnitude of Showgirl Homecoming is no small feat. Some notable numbers are.

Illustration: Eduardo Aragon / kya.pytalhost.net

10 million dollars worth of video hardware touring with Kylie, plus never before seen screen footage filmed by Oscar nominated John Matheson (Gladiator, Phantom Of The Opera).

2.5 Million is the cost in Australian dollars for the huge, art deco inspired stage, which has been updated to accommodate the new components of Homecoming.

1400 amps of 3 phase electricity.

543 days from the postponement of Showgirl on May 17, 2005 to the moment Kylie returns to the stage on November 11, 2006 with Showgirl Homecoming.

140 plus staff working on the tour daily.

100 towels required per concert.

55 tons of equipment.

20 Showgirl Homecoming concerts across Australia.

16 trucks required to transport the show around the country.

13 dancers on stage with Kylie.

7 band members on stage with Kylie.

6 top of the range high resolution screens.

5 hydraulic lifts featured within the massive stage.

4 laser systems.

3 award winning choreographers, Michael Rooney, Rafael Bonachela and Akram Khan.

1/2 a truck devoted purely to feathers from the Lido in Paris.

Quelle: Times Online

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Robbie and Kylie's Xmas turkey
09.11.2006

KYLIE MINOGUE has invited ROBBIE WILLIAMS to have Christmas dinner at her place Down Under.

It’s a lovely image. Two pop stars pulling a cracker over some delicious moist turkey breast.

Kylie has agreed to join Robbie on stage when he performs the last show of his world tour in her home town of Melbourne on December 18. Her own rescheduled Showgirl tour - cancelled when she fell ill with cancer last year - finishes in the same city the night before Robbie’s gig.

So she will be in top form when she joins him on stage to do their duet Kids and possibly some other tracks too.

In return for the opportunity to sing with the Robster she’s asked him to come and spend Christmas Day with the Minogues.

Imagine that. Being sandwiched between Kylie and DANNII (if she makes it home too). Every man’s festive fantasy. It will be a very special affair, with Kylie’s mum Carol and dad Ron welcoming extended family and friends including her boyfriend OLIVIER MARTINEZ to a traditional feast.

My computer whizzes have imagined what Kylie and Rob might look like together on Christmas morning.

A source said: “Robbie had let it be known that he was staying on in Australia for a holiday after his tour had ended.

“And when Kylie heard about it she couldn’t bear the thought of him spending Christmas alone - or in a hotel room.

“So she has extended an invitation to come to the family home for lunch. He’ll be treated to a huge Minogue welcome from her extended family.”

Kylie, who launched her own perfume called Darling in Sydney yesterday, takes to the stage in the city on Saturday night.

It is the first time she has done a Showgirl gig since her treatment for breast cancer.

The tour was cancelled on the eve of its Aussie leg last year after her diagnosis.

It ends in Melbourne with six shows.

Quelle: The Sun

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Gemeinsame Weihnacht
Kylie will mit Robbie feiern
09.11.2006

Kylie Minogue will dafür sorgen, dass sich Robbie Williams in ihrer australischen Heimat nicht einsam fühlt. Die Popsängerin hat zugesagt, bei dem Konzert von Williams in Melbourne am 18. Dezember als Gast auf die Bühne zu kommen. Der Gig ist das letzte Konzert von Robbies Welttournee.

Die beiden wollen ihr Duett "Kids" und weitere Songs gemeinsam singen. Das berichtet die britische Tageszeitung "The Sun". Nur einen Tag vorher beendet Minogue - ebenfalls in Melbourne - ihre "Showgirl"-Tour, die wegen ihrer Brustkrebs-Erkrankung verschoben werden musste.

Robbie ist außerdem eingeladen, den Weihnachtstag mit den Minogues zu verbringen. Außer Kylies Eltern Carol und Ron werden auch ihre Schwester Dannii und Kylies Verlobter Olivier Martinez mitfeiern.

Quelle: N-TV

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Kylie doing it for the kids?
08.11.2006

Could she and Robbie sing? / kya.pytalhost.net

WILL they or won't they? On Sunday, December 17, Kylie Minogue finishes her Australian tour at home in Melbourne.

On Monday, December 18, Robbie Williams ends his world tour in Melbourne.
At home and with a night free, will Minogue be up for getting on stage with Robbie to perform their hit duet Kids?

"It's food for thought," Minogue told Hit last month.

"I may sample that food," Williams says when told of the possibility.

"Maybe we should get together and recreate pop history. Let's see what happens. It's a possibility."

Williams admits Kids surfaces in his show as an encore -- after he does Angels -- every now and again.

"If I'm enjoying the show I'll put Kids in right at the end. If I'm not enjoying the show I'll leave right after Angels. If I'm tired and I've got another show to do the next day I'll leave Kids out. It all depends on the biochemistry of the show."

Surely a world tour finale calls for a surprise?

"To be honest, I sleep all through the day," Williams says. "I wake up and get on stage. I don't know if I'll have time to rehearse it. But I love Kylie, I fancy her and maybe something will happen. The seed is planted."

Quelle: Herald Sun

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Kylie dreams of releasing hippie within / Darling Perfume Launch
08.11.2006

Hello Darling... Kylie and her new fragrance.

Kylie Minogue sometimes dreams of releasing the Aussie hippie within.

While she is not ready to give up show business yet, she says a quieter life is on the horizon.

"I can't even (imagine stopping)," Minogue said after the launch of her perfume, Darling, in Sydney.

"Not yet, just not yet.

"I dream of that kind of thing. Sometimes I want to release that earthy Australian hippie ... get your tent, go out learn how to catch a wave and walk through the rainforest ... be an Aussie chick."

The Australian singer launched her first fragrance tonight at a mansion in Sydney's exclusive Vaucluse.

"Darling, it's such a warm word. I use it with my friends, my mother uses it with me and it's a little bit showbiz," Minogue said.

Wearing a black, knee-length, Audrey Hepburn-style dress decorated with Bulgari diamonds, Minogue said she expected Aussies wouldn't be able to resist shortening the name to "Darl".

Minogue arrived home on Sunday excited about finally being able to perform in Australia again.

The Melbourne-born former soap star had to postpone the Australian leg of her Showgirl Homecoming tour when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in May last year.

She took a break from tour rehearsals today to launch the fragrance and admitted having a little help in designing the perfume.

"I did ask my boyfriend as we were testing the fragrance - he likes it," said Minogue, who is dating French actor Oliver Martinez.

Australia's pop princess said she was excited at the chance to perform again after the long lay-off.

"I'm just going to try and enjoy the moment, roll with the crowd and take a few more risks," she said.

That said, Minogue admitted she wasn't physically able to do the same high performance show she was known for before her illness.

"I actually can't do the same things," she said.

"I can't wear the same costumes. How can I do that a year-and-a-half later and feel that I'm meant to be replicating what that was, when I'm not the same person?"

Quelle: The Age

 Darling Perfume Launch (Australia) CH10 News VIDEO - click here [1:52min. *.flv]

 Kylie launches new perfume - Pictures click here [Picture Section]

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Kylie Minogue will als Hippie leben
08.11.2006

SYDNEY - Kylie Minogue will künftig ein Hippie-Dasein in Australien führen. Allerdings erst, wenn die Sängerin ihre Karriere beendet hat und in den Ruhestand geht.

Wie der Online-Dienst "ContactMusic.com" berichtet, machte sie sich während ihrer Brustkrebserkrankung jede Menge Gedanken darüber, wie es später mal weitergehen soll. Und kam dabei zu eben diesem Entschluss. Minogue wörtlich: "Ich träume manchmal davon und habe das Bedürfnis, die Hippie-Kylie in mir raus zu lassen." Sie wolle sich dann einfach ein Zelt schnappen, an den Strand fahren und in den Wellen baden. Eben so, wie es für die Mädels in Australien typisch sei.

Derzeit aber arbeitet Kylie Minogue an ihrem Comeback. In wenigen Tagen soll der Australien-Teil ihrer "Showgirl"-Welttournee nachgeholt werden, den sie wegen ihrer Brustkrebserkrankung absagen musste.

Quelle: Chart-King

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Kylie´s neuer "Liebling"
08.11.2006

Hallo Darling... Kylie und ihr neuer Duft.

Sydney - Brandneu und gerade rechtzeitig fürs Weihnachtsgeschäft kommt das erste Parfüm von Kylie auf den Markt.

Heute stellte Sie ihren "Darling" ("Liebling") in Sydney vor. Benannt sei der Duft nach ihrem Spitznamen, sagte Kylie bereits vor einigen Wochen dem Magazin "Vogue", als ihre Parfüm-Pläne öffentlich wurden: "Meine Mutter sagt immer Darling zu mir. Und ich nenne meine Freunde Darling."

kya.pytalhost.net

 Darling Perfume Launch (Australia) CH10 News VIDEO - click here [1:52min. *.flv]

 Kylie launches new perfume - Pictures click here [Picture Section]

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THE SURVIVORS
Kylie makes dream come true for girl who helped her in fight for health
By Sara Wallis
06.11.2006

POP princess Kylie Minogue made a dream come true for fellow cancer survivor Katy Miles.

Kylie made her first TV appearance in nearly four months to surprise the six-year-old Scot.

The brave duo learned they had beaten cancer on the same day - and both featured on a memorable Daily Record Page One.

Katy wrote to Kylie, enclosing the article, and wishing her idol well. And the letter was an inspiration to the 38-year-old star in her fight back from breast cancer.

That's why she decided to make Katy's day and present her with a Pride of Britain Child of Courage award.

The emotional moment - a highlight of our sister paper the Daily Mirror's Pride of Britain Awards - will be screened tomorrow on ITV1 at 9pm.

Little Katy, who was diagnosed with a rare kidney cancer at four, was overwhelmed when she came face to face with the star who was her inspiration during gruelling treatment.

Katy's mum Louise Miles, 34, said: "Katy thought we were going to London to see some dancers.

"We counted to 10 and went into the room and sat down. Suddenly Kylie walked in.

"I said, 'Katy, look over there, do you know who that is?' I don't think she could believe it. She was like a rabbit caught in headlights.

"Kylie was wearing a stunning silver dress. She came straight over and knelt down next to Katy."

Kylie surprised Katy with pink roses, signed some memorabilia including a picture, book and DVD, and said: "How about a little cuddle?" Katy leapt up and gave her a hug. Kylie then said "Hug me harder." Katy hugged her so hard they fell over.

Louise, of Cove, Dunbartonshire, said: "Kylie was wonderful. They sat together on the floor then watched the dancers perform the Locomotion."

Then Kylie told Katy: "Now I'm going to go up and sing a song for you." She blew kisses to Katy as she performed Can't Get You Out Of My Head.

Louise said: "She kept blowing kisses to Katy, who caught the kisses and blew kisses back. She was so gob smacked.

"I thanked Kylie for being such an inspiration to Katy after all she had been through herself. She was almost a bit choked herself and gave me a big hug."

Kylie first heard Katy's story when the youngster wrote to her shortly after her cancer was diagnosed.

Brave Katy survived and found herself sharing the headlines with Kylie when they both went into remission at the same time.

Katy sent a copy of the Record to Kylie asking for an autograph and memorabilia.

But when she received a signed DVD, she donated it to a fundraising auction. It raised £650 for the hospitals where she was treated - Glasgow's York hill hospital and Beatson Oncology Centre.

Katy's family have now raised almost £30,000 for the hospital and centre.

At the awards, Kylie will join more than 100 famous faces honouring the UK's unsung hereos.

The celebrities include Prince Charles, Tony Blair, Victoria and David Beckham, Jude Law, Take That and McFly.

Quelle: Daily-Record

 Kylie - Pride of Britain Awards VIDEO - click here [1:23min. *.flv]

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Kylie Minogue macht krebskrankes Mädchen glücklich
06.11.2006

London (RPO). Der australische Popstar Kylie Minogue hat einem krebskranken Mädchen einen Überraschungsbesuch abgestattet und damit glücklich gemacht. Die britische Zeitung "The Daily Mirror" vermeldet, dass die Sängerin nach ihrer überstandenen Brustkrebs-Erkrankung nun anderen Menschen Mut im Kampf gegen den Krebs machen will.

Die 38-Jährige besuchte deshalb in London (bei den Britain Awards) die sechsjährige Katy Miles, die unter einem seltenen Nierenkrebs leidet. Minogue umarmte das Mädchen und sagte dem Bericht zufolge, bevor sie ihren Hit "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" anstimmte: "Nun singe ich ein Lied nur für dich."

Die Sechsjährige sei völlig überwältigt gewesen: "Sie starrte Kylie nur sprachlos an", sagte die Mutter des Mädchens. Minogue setzt derzeit ihre Welttournee fort, die sie aufgrund der Krankheit hatte absagen müssen.

Quelle: RP-Online

 Kylie - Pride of Britain Awards VIDEO - click here [1:23min. *.flv]

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