Kylie Minogue has been out talking about her breast cancer, and two things about it have really struck true with me. First, is that she has not been given the all clear from doctors yet, that she still has to have regular checks.

“It’s not over,” quotes the Sunday Mirror, “I still go for regular check-ups. The ‘voyage’ doesn’t end suddenly. That’s why it’s so difficult to talk about it.”

However, despite admitting some of her management team feared her decision to announce her condition in May 2005 could harm her career, Kylie says she’s sure she made the right decision in going public.

“It’s wonderful to know that in talking about it, I’m perhaps helping women, families and also some men with breast cancer,” she explains.

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Secondly, that she was misdiagnosed initially and told everything was fine, and she only discovered the tumor on a second investigation.

“Listen, this is an opportunity for me to say something that I have not said before,” a nervous Minogue said.

“I was misdiagnosed initially.

“So my message to all of you and everyone at home is, because someone is in a white coat and using big medical instruments doesn’t necessarily mean they are right.”

Minogue did not give the date of the misdiagnosis, how long she went before the second check or if the misdiagnosis occurred in Australia or Britain.

But, she said the misdiagnosis happened before she embarked on her Showgirl concert tour.

Sydney Morning Herald

This is so important, to not feel intimidated when you go to see your doctor. If you feel something is wrong with your body, then something probably is. There is no need to feel embarrassed by getting a second opinion, or coming back for further tests. If your doctor makes you feel stupid, tell him he’s not doing his job properly by making you feel that way and get a new doctor.

Kylie also took the time to point out that getting married and having babies would be marvelous, but that she doesn’t “absolutely have to have children to make my life complete”.

Kylie is currently promoting her new album, titled X. She turns 40 in May.

Kylie Minogue is shown at The Brit Awards on 2/20/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

I just love when a couple divorces – wait, don’t judge me yet – and then they trade up. I’m so happy that they’ve met someone new, with a little bit of revenge factor in it for their ex. For example, Angelina Jolie splitting with Billy Bob Thornton and getting together with Brad Pitt is definitely trading up.

When it comes to the Natalie Imbruglia divorce from Daniel Johns, I’m not sure if her new man is an improvement. Daniel Johns is sexy and talented and they share a passion for music, but Sam Branson would have to be one of the most eligible bachelors in England. The thing is, he’s 23 while Natalie is 33.

Natalie Imbruglia is reportedly romancing Sir Richard Branson’s son.

The ‘Torn’ singer - who recently split from husband Daniel Johns - was seen canoodling with the Virgin tycoon’s son Sam during a bash at London’s Kensington Roof Gardens.

The £100,000 ski-themed party was held to celebrate Sam - who at 23 is 10 years Natalie’s junior - leaving to go on an Arctic expedition.

An onlooker said: “They are pretty besotted with each other and Natalie is even talking about meeting him in the Arctic.”

Sydney Morning Herald

Natalie was last linked to Razorlight rocker Johnny Borell. He managed to get hold of her phone number and called ‘constantly’, according to the Daily Mail. How does this guy meet all these beautiful women? He’s been linked to Kirsten Dunst and Emma Watson too – what do they see in him?

Natalie went on holiday last month with fellow Australian and Neighbours alumni Kylie Minogue. They traveled to Maritius, where they had a girlie good time, with massage and beauty therapy. That sounds like a fabulous idea, but at £3,000-a-night maybe it’s a little out of my reach. I’ll just go take a bubble bath.

Note by Celebitchy: Picture of Sam Branson from 2/8/07. Natalie Imbruglia is shown on 12/5/07.

Remember how everyone was getting those terrible helmet bangs about a year and a half ago and how Janet Jackson popularized it? My hairdresser had a big poster up from Jose Eber featuring that style, and when I asked him about it he just shook his head and said he hoped it would pass.

The severe bangs were flipped to the side until they slowly grew out to make way for more classic hair trends, but now they’re back again in all their forehead-blocking glory. I blame Katie Holmes for bringing back this questionable style. She manages to pull off a severe interpretation of her daughter’s bowl cut, but only because she has either naturally thin straight hair or enough volume has been taken out of her hair to make it flat and sleek. In my opinion this style just doesn’t work with thicker hair and looks silly.

Here are some celebrities who work it, and others who just should flip it to the side and wait for the trend to pass. Rather than group them according to my opinion, I’ll just post the photos and let you discuss. I don’t think this style works with hair that isn’t straight and thin, but you may disagree.

It’s just hair. It will grow out eventually and can be styled to compensate, but unlike a bad outfit you can’t just switch it for something else the next day without some effort.

Shown are Katie Holmes, Heidi Klum, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci, Elle Macpherson, Selma Blair, Kylie Minogue, Kelis, Paula Abdul in a messy interpretation of the style, Rihanna, Myleene Klass, and Janet Jackson.

Can it be possible that the British tabloids have got it wrong? Only yesterday we reported that Kylie Minogue was spotted with handsome ex-boyfriend Olivier Martinez, and speculation was rife that she had a new life plan, complete with marriage and babies. Now it seems that their un-named source was wrong! As we reported, Kylie and Ollie were meant to be together again, after a year apart, and planning “to start a family, to marry her and to settle down.”

But, Kylie today released her new range of linen for your home, and denied the reports at her launch. It seems a bit coincidental that the range came out the same week as the rumours - was it a clever ploy to get more publicity?

Minogue told the Press Association: “I had dinner with my ex-boyfriend and next thing I know there’s a debate about whether we’re having a family. “We didn’t even talk about that. As I’ve maintained, we’re friends.”

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I’m actually not surprised about this, and according to relationship advice gurus, it’s a bad idea.

Paula Hall, relationship psychotherapist for Relate, said, “I don’t think there’s anything wrong in going back to your ex as long as you have resolved the problems which caused the break-up in the first place.

“Some couples get to the point of a break-up before they realise what they really want and it gives them the motivation to resolve their problems.”

But she said people should not return to a former partner just to have a family. “To get back together purely to have a baby is not necessarily a good idea – it depends on your expectations for both the relationship and parenting.”

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That’s probably not bad advice, considering the stress a baby places on everyone around it!

Can you believe that Kylie is releasing a range of goods for your home? You can now not only listen to Kylie, but smell like her, wear her undies and swimsuits, and sleep with her sheets. How does she have time to actually maintain a music career? It’s probably a good thing that Kylie isn’t having a baby, as she’d have no time to raise the little one. Although, a rage of tiny Kylie Baby clothes would be really cute…

The new range of linens include bedding, towels, cushions and curtains in luxury fabrics and covered in sequins, diamantes and semi-precious stones. It is called At Home With Kylie.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Kylie Minogue is shown at the launch of At Home With Kylie in London yesterday, thanks to PRPhotos.

Kylie Minogue is just my favourite little Aussie, and ever since her break up with Olivier Martinez we’ve been hoping that she would find new love and have some babies. Now it seems she has a plan.

“Kylie has taken him back - with a new set of rules,” a friend of Miss Minogue’s told the Daily Mail.

“Ollie has agreed to try for a baby. That was always the stumbling block in their relationship. They have both been single for a year and Kylie has realised she has never had anyone that has matched up to him.

“A month ago, a mutual Parisian friend passed a message on to Kylie that Ollie was pining for her and deeply regretted the break-up. Two weeks later, Ollie called her late one night when he was a bit drunk. That was their first conversation in almost a year.

Before the break: Kylie and Olivier at the Laureus World Sports Awards in 2003

“Since that time, they have been regularly calling, having intense conversations and texting incessantly.

“Ollie has told her he is ready to start a family, to marry her and to settle down. It was against that background that this first meeting happened last week.

“They have decided that if they have no success within a year, they will try to adopt.

“Olivier was always unsure of adoption before and neither did he want to have a baby naturally. He did not want to marry either. But after being apart for a year, he has obviously had a change of heart.”

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail adds that the couple spent much of the weekend together, with Olivier’s dog Sheeba. Kylie has had a long history of spending time with the pooch, often being seen taking her on walks in Paris. Which probably means that the phone calls of the last few weeks aren’t the first contact the couple have had.

While Martinez’s family are happy to see the couple together, apparently Kylie’s aren’t pleased, although the Daily Mail offers no explanation. Maybe it could be those rumours about Olivier’s sex scene with Diane Lane in the film Unfaithful – some viewers thought they were a little too convincing.

The steamy sex scenes in the 2002 thriller, which also starred Richard Gere, were made to look so lifelike that internet gossips have claimed that the actor’s went one step further during taping.

But 42-year-old Lane - who is now happily married to ‘No Country For Old Men’ actor, Josh Brolin - insists that the rumours are not true.

Mercy me, no no, no. That was wishful thinking on somebody’s part,” Lane told US talk show host, Tyra Banks.

“That’s not for me. That’s a whole different thing, and I like this industry better than that one.”

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How could you possibly manage to fool everyone on the set? Surely someone would notice - I hope that there is big difference between fake sex and real sex. Actually, I can’t imagine many things less appealing than sex, on a film set, with strangers watching.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Images are older ones of Kylie Minogue and Oliver Martinez at the Laureus World Sports Awards in 2003.

\Every year the Australian government holds a G’Day LA convention to promote Australia to Hollywood, and this year Kylie Minogue and Olivia Newton-John turned up. Three’s no chance of the sweet-natured Olivia turning down a request for a tune, and since John Travolta was in the audience she thought it was a good time to belt out a number from Grease.

They (Travolta and Newton-John) snuggled on the red carpet first, but it was widely tipped the real prize would come later: the two of them singing together for only the third time since they did so to some public acclaim in Grease 30 years ago. Newton-John hit some other high notes first, restricting herself, she said, to hits written or produced by compatriots: Magic (John Farrar); Physical, slowed to a bossa nova (Steve Kipner); Hopelessly Devoted to You (Farrar). The latter has rarely been sung with the subject of the devotion present, so the room was charged and ready for something special. The possibility came next with another Farrar tune, this one requiring a male partner.

“I’ve got chills, they’re multiplying,” it starts. But no Travolta. He stayed resolutely seated, ignoring shouts from the crowd to assume his rightful place - and leaving the bloke from Newton-John’s backing band who took on vocal duty for You’re The One That I Want to face a bunch of historic stage nerves, and a story beyond compare to tell the grandkids. The Grease reunion thus foiled, Newton-John then let rip with her traditional closer, I Honestly Love You. Peter Allen wrote it, she’s sung it a million times, yet this time she seemed to find something else in the ballad again. The room stopped; a falling pin would have seemed an explosion.

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Given all the negative publicity John Travolta’s Scientology friends are getting lately, you would think it was time to try and indulge in some good, clean fun. For the cameras, of course. But John Travolta just doesn’t know when to say yes.

He was happy to get up and speak, paying tribute to Kylie Minogue and her representation of Australia. I wasn’t sure what he was actually doing at the Australian event, but it seems he’s a goodwill ambassador for Australian airline Qantas.

In some nice news for Olivia Newton-John, she seems happy and is planning on getting married again. In 2005 Olivia’s long-term partner went missing at sea, amid mysterious circumstances. She’s is now dating Australian businessman John Easterling, and told Extra that he is the man she wants to marry. Hopefully the feeling is mutual Olivia, or you’ve just let him know in a less-than-subtle manner!

Note by Celebitchy: Despite not singing with Newton-John, People quotes Travolta as saying “We see each other a couple of times a year. I love seeing her. She’s awesome.” He is also said to have yelled “Olivia, I love you. I honestly love you” when he was on stage after her performance.

Travolta also defended his friend and fellow cult member Tom Cruise’s near-intelligible rant watched ’round the world saying “We all have the right to practice how we feel. It finally becomes unfair.” What’s unfair is that your personal brand of “religion” costs tens of thousands of dollars, separates people from their families, works hard to suppress any amount of exposure of their methodology, and uses slave labor camps for members that aren’t towing the line. Video of a person who seeks out publicity freaking out while using terminology previously unknown to the general public is fair game.

Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures of the G’Day USA Australia.com Black Tie Gala on 1/19/08, which took place in Hollywood, CA. Callista Flockhart and Harrison Ford, Kylie Minogue, Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna, Bindi and Terri Irwin. Olivia Newton John looks great - she’s 59!

Kylie Minogue is an Australian icon, and I grew up in Australia when she was at her biggest. There were so many babies named Kylie (and quite a few named after the Dynasty characters), but it seems that there might be more people in Kylie’s head then named after her.

Kylie said: “It’s not about having two different personalities - it’s about having a whole committee in your head.

“It’s about having this discussion with the committee about something really important, and assuming it took place for real.

“Like, recently, I was telling my friend William Baker about my next tour and what we’re going to be doing on it, and he was looking at me, like, ‘What tour, when?’ And suddenly I remembered I hadn’t actually told anybody I was planning to go on tour again besides myself.”

The Age

Riiiight. I’ve always suspected that one fo the keys to success in the music industry is reinvention, but I guess Kylie is taking it one step further when she brings out a new album and just lets another personality out. Which is healthy, possibly. I’m not a doctor!!

Kylie is planning a big tour to celebrate her 40th birthday next year, which should be pretty amazing, and hopefully her skimpy outfits will stem a few of those pregnancy rumours.

Kylie was also honoured for her contribution to music by the Queen, receiving an Order of the British Empire. This is quite an honour, as close to knighthood a non-British citizen can get. While Kylie resides in London permanently she is an Australian citizen.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Kylie is shown on 11/12/07, outside of BBC Radio 1, thanks to PRPhotos.

Kylie Minogue’s image is everywhere lately - on her latest album, her newest perfume, on a strip club window…

Nope, Kylie isn’t branching out into strip joints as the latest part of her empire, but it seems that her wet t-shirt clad figure might be gracing the front window of a New Zealand strip joint. Apparently Kylie only approves of her sexy pictures being used to sell music, not sex, and her lawyers want the image removed. Club owner Garth Rosson isn’t convinced that the image is even Kylie.

He said his designer downloaded the image from an internet site three months ago and used it for a window poster.

It was not labelled as a photograph of Minogue and he said he could not see the resemblance.

“I’m not convinced, eh? What would a nice girl like Kylie be doing in a wet top like that?”

Sheridans’ letter, dated November 22, said Minogue had decided the club should be given three working days to remove the offending poster.

There would be no further action if this was done

The Age

The poster has been removed temporarily, but unless Kylie’s lawyers can prove it is her it will go back up.

It seems a little strange that Kylie is happy to sell her music with a picture of herself in a wet, white t-shirt on what seems to be a cold day, but doesn’t want that picture used inappropriately. Don’t you at least suspect what young boys are doing with your images behind closed doors?

It is very hard to tell if it is in fact Kylie in the picture, she’s had that many image changes through her career it’s hard to remember them all. I think this picture is before her infamous gold hot pants appeared, because ever since then she’s been very butt focused.

Kylie Minogue is like my superhero. She is almost better than Wonder Woman and her magical accessories. After dueling with cancer she made a comeback that made her a one fierce mama. And mama isn’t too far off the mark. Rumors and reports that Kylie had been getting treatment to prepare and aid her in becoming pregnant are untrue. But what is true is the fact that she wants children and she is looking into the near future to join the club of motherhood.

“Pop superstar Kylie Minogue has vowed to have children after successfully recovering from breast cancer. The 39-year-old singer admits she has always been keen to start a family, but her diagnosis with the illness in 2005 forced her to make having kids a priority. She says, “I love children. Always have and always will. But it’s only since my cancer that I have given serious thought to having them.” But the Spinning Around star denies undergoing fertility treatment to boost her chances of conceiving. She adds, “Contrary to some reports, I am not having all sorts of weird treatments to try and get pregnant. Instead, we will just have to wait and see what doctors say.”

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As she nears her next birthday doctors are begging Minogue to take it easy. After she scheduled another tour just in time for turning 40 and expressing her desire for children, specialist have advised her that undertaking so much could further damage her health. Being the hard working woman she is, she can’t help but fight to perform as much as she can. Kylie is taking the doctors advice to heart, but she is “determined to do this tour.”

Let me just say that Kylie has won my affection and if I ever have to go through something that trying in life I hope that I would have half the gumption and strength she has. But, girl go kick it in Key West for awhile! Find yourself a nice beach to sit on with a mojito and some cabana boy to eye-doodle. Then go have babies and sing your little heart out. Because after you have babies your vacations will involve juice boxes in place of mojitos and that cabana boy desperately looking for a place to fumigate and bury a dirty diaper.

Kylie Minogue was dripping with diamonds and crystals at the London premiere of the two hour documentary about her comeback from breast cancer, White Diamond, last night. She wore a gorgeous sleeveless Dolce & Gabbana satin gown adorned with literally a million dollars worth of Swarovski crystals. She sat in the back of the theater and laughed and cried at the film which showed her regain her health, stage a comeback tour and face a difficult breakup up with longterm boyfriend Oliver Martinez. Minogue says she was reluctant to do the film and tried to call it off five different times:

The movie lasted nearly two hours, during which Kylie sat at the back of the cinema either laughing out loud or sobbing.

Afterwards the star, wearing a Dolce & Gabbana satin cream gown sprinkled with £500,000 of Swarovski crystals, said: “I didn’t know if I’d make it through that screening, it was very emotional making the documentary and even more so watching it.”

The documentary follows Kylie’s emotional comeback after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005.

But the singer revealed she took a lot of persuading to do the film, adding: “It wasn’t my idea, it was William Baker’s. I canned it five times before this. I was hoodwinked basically because I really tried to get out of it. But he said, ‘This is who you are and we all love you for who you are’.

“There was a time when I’d been stripped of everything and depended on nothing, and I felt like I had everything in terms of love and support, and I think that had a lot to do with me agreeing to this.”

Kylie was overwhelmed with the thousands of people who came out in the rain last night to see her. She told us: “I said to Willie in the car, ‘What if there are only six people here’, but I’m overwhelmed.

“These people have been so patient, not just tonight but for a long time and they’ve given me a lot of support on my road to recovery.”

[From The Daily Mail]

Kylie’s sister Danii and her good friend, the filmmaker William Baker, were at the premiere with her, but she was not accompanied by a romantic interest. Kylie says she’s single and that when her manager recently asked her “are you sure you’re not with anyone?” she said “If you can get me someone that’d be great.”

I’m sure there are hoards of men who would like to take Kylie out, but only a few who are good enough for her. (And I mean that like she deserves a great guy, not that she’s super picky, but if she is then more power to her.)

Kylie Minogue’s documentary White Diamond will be in limited release at Vue cinemas in the UK, after which it will be available on DVD.

Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures of Kylie.