The pint-sized pop star has revealed that it was actually to be closer to her parents.
In
an interview with TV Week, the 45-year-old opened up about the passing
of her grandmother last year, admitting that she had some regrets about
not being there for her parents.
"Unfortunately, I wasn't there and it was obviously difficult and
emotional," she told the magazine. "I wish I could have been here for my
parents.
She explained why she was the first person in The Voice
history to go on stage with a handbag – the additional accessory was in
fact in honour of her grandmother who went everywhere with hers.
"That was the reason I took my handbag onstage, the first person in The Voice
history to go on stage carrying a handbag! My nana would never go
anywhere without her handbag. It was the 'nana clutch', said the singer.
The Melbourne-born star went on to describe her move back "home" as a "positive step".
"My life has been based at the other end of the world for a long time
now. I am hoping this is one positive step in being able to spend more
time in Australia and being closer to them."
Kylie appeared on
the UK version of the reality singing competition earlier this year. She
admitted that she would be leaving the show, where she was judge with
Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am, Tom Jones and Kaiser Chiefs frontman
Ricky Wilson, earlier this month.
"#Lovers, due to timing of my tour I won't be back next season for The Voice UK Thanks to all who supported! Hope to see you on my KMO tour!" she wrote on Twitter.
Big icons come in small packages. The petite pop princess Kylie Minogue is not just a gay icon, but, according to a survey printed in The Sun, she’s the biggest gay icon of all time.
You’re free to disagree, but there’s plenty more evidence in her favor. Even Rufus Wainwright named her one of his top gay icons,
saying “I love Kylie, she's the anti-Madonna. Self-knowledge is a truly
beautiful thing and Kylie knows herself inside out. She is what she is
and there is no attempt to make quasi-intellectual statements to
substantiate it. She is the gay shorthand for joy.”
She’s acknowledged and celebrated her gay audience throughout her decades-long career.
“I didn’t become a gay icon or become popular in the gay community
for doing something specific. That happened just because I was being
myself,” she told The Advocate last year.
“When I’m on tour, I think there’s a little bit of everything there.
From a row of muscle Marys and drag queens to dads, moms, grandmas, and
three generations of girls – everyone is there. So I try to put into my
shows and albums a little bit for everyone and I hope that colors my
work in the best way.”
Whether LGBT audiences adore her for her disco-flavored dance tunes,
flashy costumes or charming personality, Kylie’s fervent fans have made
her an institution since the late 1980s.
See her in action in some of our favorite clips, AFTER THE JUMP …
Kylie’s first big acting gig was on an Australian soap opera called Neighbours.
The episode that featured her character Charlene Mitchell’s wedding was
seen by an audience of 20 million British viewers. She’s continued to
act throughout the years, appearing in Moulin Rouge and a fantastic episode of Doctor Who, as well as some projects she’d probably rather forget. See a clip from her farewell on Neighbours, above.
She made the jump to music with her first single, “The Loco-Motion.”
It spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles charts and
reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. Kylie faced resistance trying to break in as a singer after being known primarily as an actress. She told The Advocate
that she thinks overcoming that criticism strengthened her connection
to the LGBT community. “I really resisted being pigeonholed and perhaps
that’s one reason the gay community has felt some allegiance with me.
Because I didn’t want to be told I was one thing and couldn’t be
another. I didn’t want to have just one color to my personality.”
The peak of Kylie’s popularity in the United States hit in the early 2000s, when she released her album, Fever.
The album included singles “Love At First Sight” (above) and “Can’t Get
You Out of My Head,” which hit number seven on the Billboard Hot 100
and was number one in more than forty countries.
Not only has Kylie performed with LGBT performers (like Rufus Wainwright and Scissor Sisters) as well as playing established gay bars (G-A-Y and Splash), but she’s also been involved with LGBT organizations, like amfAR and GLAAD. See her get introduced by Boy George and perform a sing-along version of “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” at the GLAAD Media Awards earlier this year, above.
For her most recent album, Kiss Me Once, Kylie collaborated with Sia on the track “Sexercise.” The official video features Kylie having a steamy workout session with two other women. However, we prefer the scintillating clip above, showcasing some hunky dancers. (There’s also this male cover of the song and video.)
What’s your favorite Kylie track? Do you agree with The Sun that she is the biggest gay icon of all time?
Kyle Minogue’s effervescent Aphrodite Les Folies stage show was so magnificent when we saw it at the Hollywood Bowl, we couldn’t be more excited that the pop star is bringing it to DVD. Kylie and her team have given us a sneak peek at what’s to come on Aphrodite Les Folies: Live In London with a new video featuring Ms. Minogue performing her single “Get Outta My Way” live at the O2 arena. Head below to watch the Aussie goddess (wearing a drop dead gorgeous fluffy black ballgown and glittery top hat combo) in action.
Singer Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite concert film is to be released in cinemas in 3D. The film will documents the Aussie star performing at the O2 Arena in April this year that was recorded over two of her five shows at the London venue. Fans will only be able to see the new film in 3d performing her hits like Spinning Around and Can't Get You Out Of My Head. The star just wrapped up the tour aptly titled the Aphrodite Les Folies after visiting 5 continents, 27 countries, 55 cities, 77 shows, 150 days on the road, 85,000km traveled, 575,000 audience and endless Kylie love!!! Watch the 3d feature as it make its way through Australia and New Zealand. Just hope they show it to other parts of the world! Saw this concert and was thrilled no end!
To Kylie, Aphrodite is like one big throbbing heart, defined by “love, defiance and joy”. In that way, lead single ‘All The Lovers’ is a perfect introduction to the album. “It’s really difficult to choose the first single,” she muses. “But ‘All The Lovers’ is like an invitation to the album, so I think we made the right choice – it’s important to lead with a song that’s saying something.”
Indeed, the track is quite explicit in its message – feel love, share love, love in all its forms. The accompanying Joseph Kahn-directed video – a Spencer Tunick-esque piece of Dionysian revelry that features Kylie holding court as the goddess of sexuality atop a pansexual, orgiastic human pyramid (like Maryann from True Blood!!!!!)– powerfully reinforces this sentiment. And, with gay couples taking pride of place amongst their straight peers, it has been seen as a powerful symbol of sexual liberation.
“The idea was just epic love,” Kylie says. “I think it’s beautiful – and of course it’s a little titillating and sexy. In that mass of people, you didn’t know who was straight or gay or bi, and no one cared. Love is love is love.”
I tell Kylie about the pre-release listening party Warner Music hosted for Aphrodite. Almost gayer than Mardi Gras itself, the event was an outrageously camp spectacle of fog machines, mirror balls, blue lycee Kylie cocktails, and throngs of adoring gay men letting out shrieks and squeals so high you’d think they had been robbed of their lower registers. It’s no secret she is a gay icon who has almost reached the giddy heights of Judy and Liza, but what exactly is it with Kylie and the gays?
“It’s been a long-time love affair for sure,” she laughs. “I was adopted pretty early on in the story! In the early days, a lot of people who liked me had to be in the closet. So you had to come out as a gay person, and then you had to come out as someone who liked Kylie!
“Those early days [in the industry] weren’t always pleasant for me, and there was a lot of vitriol at certain points, and the gay audience always came to my defence.”
Kylie first performed at Mardi Gras in 1994, and then again with her sister Dannii in 1998. Will she ever return to gay Mecca? “Yeah, absolutely,” she says lovingly. “Oh God! As and when I do that, I’ll be full of such joy. I would love to be there again and share that with everyone.
“I was recently in Madrid for Gay Pride there, and they have gay marriage there – they’ve had it for about five years. I had to address the press there, and I just said congratulations. It was really heart-warming. As I said before, love is love, so of course I believe in gay marriage.”
Kylie has also travelled back home on sisterly duties after Dannii gave birth to baby Ethan on July 5. With her Spanish-model boyfriend Andres Velencoso in tow, Kylie is now playing doting aunty. “He’s just adorable,” she gushes. “And he’s the most famous two and a half week old in the world!”
The next single off Aphrodite will be ‘Get Outta My Way’, which is just begging for the dance floor. Indeed, it seems to be the consensus amongst Kylie die-hards that the song is the highlight of the album. But Kylie is coy about the video. “It’s not undecided,” she says. “I know who’s directing it, but I probably won’t do it any justice to explain it at this stage. But it’s nothing like ‘All The Lovers’ – it’s more about lighting and dance.”
I HAPPEN TO SEE KYLIE DURING HER STOP HERE IN MANILA AND FOUND HER SO ENTHRALLING! SO CAPTIVATED BY HER BEAUTY, TALENT AND SHOWMANSHIP i HAVE DECIDED TO REPOST SOME TIDBIT INFO ON HER LATEST OUTTING TO SHARE IT WITH HER FANS AND ADMIRERS ALIKE!