"of her previous hits. It aired on 10 November 2007. The show featured the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Crazy Horse Girls as her backing dancers, flown in from Paris to perform especially for the show. Minogue also joined Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1 for a special show called ""Kylie and Whiley"", during which they recreated a scene from Australian TV series ""Neighbours"". Minogue also appeared on 14 January 2008 on the Australian morning program ""Sunrise"". To promote the lead single and the album in the United States, Minogue appeared on several shows. On 31 March, she"
"who live and work in the fictional suburb of Erinsborough, Melbourne. Seven decided to commission the show following the success of Watson's other soap opera, ""Sons and Daughters"". ""Neighbours"" underperformed in the Sydney market and it struggled for four months before Seven cancelled it. The show was immediately bought by rival network, Ten. Ten began screening ""Neighbours"" on 20 January 1986. ""Neighbours"" has since become the longest running series in Australian television and attained great success in the United Kingdom and launched the careers of several international stars, including Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce. The soap opera ""Home and Away"""
"Australia and the United Kingdom, and peaked at number twenty-eight on the US ""Billboard"" charts. In 1979, an 11-year-old Kylie Minogue was established as a child actress, appearing as a cameo actress in the TV series ""The Sullivans"" and ""Skyways"". Both Minogue and her sister Dannii Minogue were both child stars trying to achieve success in the TV industry of Australia, but Dannii received better opportunities as a TV actress than Kylie. In 1985, Kylie was cast as one of the lead roles on TV soap ""The Henderson Kids"" but her role only lasted one season, and was completed after"
"Dannii Minogue Dannii Minogue (born 20 October 1971) is an Australian singer, songwriter, dancer, model, fashion designer, television presenter and actress. Dannii rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show ""Young Talent Time"" and the soap opera ""Home and Away"", before beginning her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s. Minogue achieved early success with hits such as ""Love and Kisses"", ""This is It"", ""Jump to the Beat"" and ""Baby Love"", though by the release of her second album, her popularity as a singer had declined, leading her to make"
"four weeks behind the Australian broadcast. All episodes of ""Neighbours"" were later removed from Hulu. ""Neighbours"" initially aired on Seven Network where it struggled to attract high ratings leading to its cancellation by the network four months after it premiered. The series was then picked up by Network Ten. After the usual break in broadcast over the summer non ratings period the series made its debut on Ten in 1986. Ten revamped the show, adding several new, younger cast members including Jason Donovan as Scott Robinson and Kylie Minogue as Charlene Mitchell. When the show began on Ten it initially"
"show, Let It Shine. Dannii Minogue was brought up in Surrey Hills, Melbourne and attended Camberwell Primary School and later Camberwell High School. She is the younger daughter of accountant Ronald Charles Allan Minogue, and Carol Jones, a dancer from the United Kingdom (Maesteg, Wales). She is the youngest of three children, born between 1968 and 1971; oldest sibling Kylie Minogue is also a pop singer, while brother Brendan is a news cameraman in Australia. Minogue began her career as a child on Australian television. From the age of 7, she appeared in several soap operas, including ""Skyways"" and ""The"
"in 1988. The 'B' side of the single was the song 'I Go, I Go.' Singer Kylie Minogue also appeared in some sketches on the show playing Kylie Mole's second best friend, Rebecca. Many well-known national and international stars appeared as guests throughout the series including : Julian Lennon, INXS, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Sigrid Thornton. Con the Fruiterer, played by Mark Mitchell on one episode even met the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, on the show. Col'n Carpenter is a 1990 Australian sitcom spinoff, starring Kym Gyngell, reprising his character from ""The Comedy Company"", it ran for"
"and the UK in March 2015. For her portrayal of Charlene, Minogue won Most Popular Actress at the 1987 Logie Awards. She had also been nominated for Most Popular New Talent, but lost to her co-star Donovan. The following year, Minogue became the youngest person, at nineteen, to be awarded the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. She also won the Most Popular Personality On Victorian Television and Most Popular Actress Logie awards. In 1989, she earned another nomination for the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. Reception for the character has"
"1968. Her father is a fifth generation Australian, and has Irish ancestry, while her mother came from Maesteg, Wales. Jones had lived in Wales until age ten when her mother and father, Millie and Denis Jones, decided to move to Australia for a better life. Just before Kylie's birth, Ron qualified as an accountant and worked through several jobs while Carol worked as a professional dancer. Kylie's younger brother, Brendan, is a news cameraman in Australia, while her younger sister Dannii Minogue is also a singer and television host. The Minogue family frequently moved around various suburbs in Melbourne to"
"since her time acting on the Australian soap opera ""Neighbours"" (from 1986 to 1988). Anderson later explained that its lengthy time was ""due to the pure perfectionism of all creatively involved"". Musically, ""Impossible Princess"" is a departure from Minogue's previous sound, encompassing various elements from the dance genre, and adopts a more ""experimental"" approach. Music publications like AllMusic, the Daily Vault and ""Slant Magazine"" identified the record as part of the techno and Britpop revolution that spanned between mid-to-late 1990s. Some reviewers, such as Nick Levine at Digital Spy and Marcel Anders from ""Orkus"", labelled ""Impossible Princess"" a straightforward dance"
"to recognise her; and another where she has a catfight with her sister, Dannii, and winds up punching Simon Cowell in the face. At the conclusion of the program, Minogue turns around in her makeup chair, revealing herself to be Joan Collins. ""The Kylie Show"" also aired on the Australian Seven Network on 5 February 2008 at . The Kylie Show The Kylie Show is a one-off television special from Australian artist Kylie Minogue that aired on ITV on 10 November 2007 and was recorded at The London Studios. The show celebrated her 20 years in pop music and acted"
"rocky start. Kylie Minogue later went on to have a hugely successful singing career after leaving the show in 1988. Jason Donovan followed suit the following year in 1989. In the storyline, more than twenty years after their wedding, Scott and Charlene are still together. They have two children, Daniel (born 1992) and Madison (born 1995), and live in Brisbane. Daniel's name was a sort of unification of family names, having his maternal great-grandfather Dan Ramsay's name combined with the surname Robinson. In 1989, British musicians The KLF released their humorous dance single ""Kylie Said to Jason"", which also refers"
"due to affiliation switches related to Fox acquiring NFC football rights, and an attempt by the network to attract younger viewers. It was the network's most-promoted new show in many years with a promotional campaign exclusively produced to appeal to younger viewers, and attempted to recapture the network's past nighttime soap glory from the years of ""Dallas"" and ""Knots Landing"". Australian singer and actress Kylie Minogue was offered a lead role, but declined. The series was not successful and was removed from CBS' schedule in November 1995, returning some months later with new additions made to the cast (Hemingway left"
"so. Critical reaction to the character has been positive. ""Soap Opera"" author Dorothy Hobson said Charlene broke stereotypes when it came to careers for women in the 1980s. After the Seven Network dropped ""Neighbours"" in 1985, rival channel Network Ten picked the series up. It initially attracted low ratings and Ten began working hard to publicise the series. They revamped the show and added several new cast members. Kylie Minogue had had a fairly successful career as a child actress, having appeared in various television dramas, including ""Skyways"" and ""The Henderson Kids"", but she was considering giving up acting after"
"""Scott and Charlene's wedding episode is practically the defining episode of what ""Neighbours"" was all about in the 80s. This episode featured the entire cast, and audiences loved watching the romance of off-screen couple Jason Donovan (Scott) and Kylie Minogue (Charlene) spill over on to the small screen."" Andrew Mercado, author of ""Super Aussie Soaps"", called the episode ""The biggest event ever in Aussie soap history."" Elizabeth Day, writing for ""The Guardian"", commented ""For many, the quintessential on-screen wedding remains the 1987 marriage of Scott and Charlene in Australian daytime soap ""Neighbours"". It was the apotheosis of a romantic teenage"
"as an Ambassador for L'Oréal Australia. In January 1994, Minogue married actor Julian McMahon, whom she met in 1991 while working on the television series ""Home and Away"". McMahon is the son of the former Prime Minister of Australia Sir William McMahon. Minogue and McMahon were married for less than two years and divorced in 1995. In October 1995, Minogue posed nude in the Australian edition of ""Playboy"". Commenting on the reason she posed nude, Minogue said she ""just had a marriage break-up. Most women go to the hairdressers – I did ""Playboy"". I chose the photographer, the location, what"
"Art Gallery by Grundy Television in 1989. It has since gone on display in the Powerhouse Museum and travelled to the UK. In 2013, ""The Daily Telegraph"" included Scott and Charlene in their list of the ""20 best TV couples"". They called them ""a supercouple"" and ""a bit of a Romeo and Juliet"" pairing. Charlene Robinson Charlene Edna ""Lenny"" Robinson (also Mitchell) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ""Neighbours"" played by Kylie Minogue. Charlene was introduced to the show along with several new characters, as part of a revamp by Network Ten to increase ratings. Minogue auditioned"
"the host of ""Compass"" on ABC TV from 1998 to 2017. Since 2005, she has hosted the ""Extra"" and ""Saturday Extra"" programs on Radio National. Doogue was married to Tim Blue, then to ABC executive Ian Carroll, who died from pancreatic cancer on 19 August 2011. She and Carroll had two children and two stepchildren. Her elder daughter with Tim Blue, Eliza Harvey, is also an ABC journalist who is married to Adam Harvey, a son of journalist Peter Harvey. Geraldine Doogue Geraldine Frances Doogue (born 29 April 1952) is an Australian journalist and radio and television host. After graduating"
"Jane Harris (Neighbours) Jane Harris is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ""Neighbours"", played by Annie Jones. She debuted on-screen during the episode broadcast on 31 July 1986 and was created by writer Ray Kolle. Jones originally auditioned for the role of Charlene Mitchell (Kylie Minogue), but she was not successful. This prompted Jones to telephone the producers for two months asking for a role in the show until she was cast. In 1989, Jones decided to quit the serial in order to pursue other projects and the character departed on 9 September the same year. In 2005,"
"writing her autobiography, her boyfriend Kris, travelling between London and Australia for Australia's Got Talent – and her most important job – her impending motherhood. The show was originally broadcast on ITV2 on 4, 11 and 18 August 2010. It will make its Australian Premiere on Wednesday, 23 February 2011 at 7:30pm on FOX8. Style Queen Dannii Minogue: Style Queen is a three-part television documentary featuring Australian artist Dannii Minogue that aired on ITV2 on August 2010. The TV show followed Dannii Minogue as she prepared to embark on one of the biggest challenges in her career and a brand"
"that it would be funny for Minogue to dress up as Charlene and the singer agreed. She appeared as a futuristic version of the character, complete with a lacy dress and 80's style hair. In October 2006, Australia Post brought out five stamps celebrating fifty years of television. Network Ten's stamp featured Charlene and Scott in their wedding attire. In 2007, ""Herald Sun"" readers voted Scott and Charlene's wedding as their top ""Neighbours"" moment. A ""Herald Sun"" reporter said ""No other wedding in soap history in Australia has captured the attention like Scott and Charlene's nuptials late in 1987."" The"
"creative interests. Since 2002, Vizard has been involved in advising emerging Australian talent. He was a consultant to Network Tens comedy show, ""The Wedge"", casting and working with Rebel Wilson, Jason Gann, Adam Zwar. From 2003 he has been a consultant to one of Australia's largest talent management companies, Profile Talent, whose clients include Hamish and Andy, Dannii Minogue, Matt Preston, Andrew O'Keefe and Sonia Kruger. In 2010, Vizard Executive Produced a reality series about Dannii Minogue, ""Dannii Minogue: Style Queen"", which was co-produced with ITV and broadcast in the UK on ITV and in Australia on Foxtel. From 1990"
"Charlene Robinson Charlene Edna ""Lenny"" Robinson (also Mitchell) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ""Neighbours"" played by Kylie Minogue. Charlene was introduced to the show along with several new characters, as part of a revamp by Network Ten to increase ratings. Minogue auditioned for the role in 1985, shortly after finishing her high school exams. She attended the audition dressed as the character and casting director Jan Russ cast her in the role. Minogue was initially contracted for a week, but this was later extended through to mid-1988. She made her first screen appearance during the episode"
"2015, Arena hosted shows on SmoothFM Radio Stations from 4:00 pm every Saturday on Sydney's SmoothFM 93.5 and on Melbourne's SmoothFM 91.5. On 25 October 2015, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) announced that Arena was due to be inducted into their Hall of Fame in the annual awards ceremony in November as a member of the Australian music industry ARIA Hall of Fame. In mid-November ARIA announced that she would be inducted by Australian-British singer and actress Kylie Minogue, also a Hall of Fame inductee - and the sister of singer Dannii Minogue, a former ""Young Talent Time"" contestant."
"and Kylie Minogue on the Australian soap opera ""Neighbours"". The success of their romance prompted a fellow Australian daytime drama ""Home and Away"" to shelve out their own supercouple, Shane and Angel, and Den and Angie from ""EastEnders"" emerged as Britain's most famous soap opera couple. Sheraton Kalouria, NBC's Vice President of Daytime Programming, said he believes in the ""it"" factor regarding fictional couples. ""It's hard to imagine Bo and Hope as a supercouple and divorce that from the magnetic chemistry of Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso"", he stated. ""Or Cruz and Eden from ""Santa Barbara"" days and A Martinez"
"radio serial was the long-running soap opera ""Blue Hills"", which was created by Gwen Meredith and ran from 1949 to 1976. With the advent of Australian television in 1956, daytime television serials followed. The first Australian television soap opera was ""Autumn Affair"" (1958) featuring radio personality and ""Blue Hills"" star Queenie Ashton making the transition to television. Each episode of this serial ran for 15 minutes and aired each weekday on the Seven Network. ""Autumn Affair"" failed to secure a sponsor and ended in 1959 after 156 episodes. It was followed by ""The Story of Peter Grey"" (1961), another Seven"
"operas became particularly popular in the late 1980s and 1990s, with ""Neighbours"" commanding British daily audiences of 19 million in 1990 although this declined to 5 million by 2007, still nearly ten times the Australian audience. Soap alumni such as Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan have continued to have successful careers in music and on the stage in Britain, while ""Neighbours"" has even been held responsible for introducing the rising inflection to England. Australian comedians have thrived in the UK, from Clive James to Adam Hills and Tim Minchin. Academic Germaine Greer played a leading rôle in British gender politics"
"of music journalist and commentator Ian ""Molly"" Meldrum. More recent notable Melbourne acts include Jet, Rogue Traders, Taxiride, Missy Higgins, Madison Avenue, Anthony Callea, The Living End and The Temper Trap. Melbourne-based television shows ""Young Talent Time"" and ""Neighbours"" gave many singers a launching pad to international success. Local talents to come from these shows include Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Tina Arena, Jamie Redfern and Jason Donovan. Another Music TV show that began in Melbourne was Turn It Up!. It was first shown on Melbourne's Channel 31 and then relayed via satellite and rebroadcast terrestrially to major TV networks in"
"observed, ""It's 29 years since we saw her and, no longer meek and mild, she shakes things up by confronting Paul and making judgemental comments – it seems that years of living with her grandmother, Mrs Mangel, have changed her somewhat."" Jane Harris (Neighbours) Jane Harris is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera ""Neighbours"", played by Annie Jones. She debuted on-screen during the episode broadcast on 31 July 1986 and was created by writer Ray Kolle. Jones originally auditioned for the role of Charlene Mitchell (Kylie Minogue), but she was not successful. This prompted Jones to telephone the"
"the UK. The album produced three singles, including ""I Begin to Wonder"", which reached number two in the UK. Since 2007, Minogue's musical career has mainly been on hiatus, only releasing the odd song intermittently due to her focusing on television presenting and her fashion label, Project D. Dannii Minogue discography Australian singer Dannii Minogue has released five studio albums, eight compilation albums, twenty-eight singles, twenty-three music videos, and five video albums. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show ""Young Talent Time"" and in the soap opera ""Home and Away"","
"Lucy Holmes Lucy Holmes is a British-born Australian performer, TV presenter, radio host, screenplay writer and director. She has studied a degree in Music Theatre and has since worked as a professional singer, actress and presenter, recording artist and backing vocalist. She has modelled for companies such as TDK, Rutherfords Jewellery, Members Equity Bank and Shoe Sales. Lucy stars as a Kylie Minogue impersonator in the international hit show, 100% Kylie. The show has toured across Australia, Dubai, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Fiji, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and Singapore. It is the longest running Kylie Tribute show in the world. Minogue"
"London singer Yazz, who had first had a big hit with producers Coldcut on the song ""Doctorin' The House"". Still with Coldcut, but now with her name billed as the lead artist, her song ""The Only Way Is Up"" topped the chart for five weeks, becoming the second biggest-selling single of the year, and paved the way for a successful solo career, including the follow-up ""Stand Up For Your Love Rights"" which hit No.2 in October. One of the biggest successes of the year was 19-year-old Kylie Minogue, well known to the public from her role in the Australian soap"
"Dannii Minogue discography Australian singer Dannii Minogue has released five studio albums, eight compilation albums, twenty-eight singles, twenty-three music videos, and five video albums. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show ""Young Talent Time"" and in the soap opera ""Home and Away"", before commencing her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s. In Australia and the United Kingdom, Minogue achieved early success with singles such as ""Love and Kisses"" and ""Success"". Her debut studio album, ""Love and Kisses"", was released in the UK in June 1991 and October"