ACTOR
Kylie Minogue
- Known for
- Street Fighter (1994), Holy Motors (2012), Bio-Dome (1996), Cut (2000)
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Kylie Minogue is an actor best known for Street Fighter, Holy Motors and Bio-Dome.
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Kylie Minogue is the first and only female recording artist to have a number one album in each of four consecutive decades on the UK chart, achieving the feat in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
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Australian doctors reported a 40% increase in mammograms in Australia, which they dubbed the "Kylie effect," attributing it to the wide media coverage of her illness.
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Kylie Minogue performed at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
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Kylie Minogue holds the record as the best-selling female artist in Australian concert history, with ticket sales currently exceeding half a million.
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Kylie Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer and cancelled her Australian tour; she also had to pull out of her headline appearance at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival.
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Kylie Minogue sued the Australian magazine "People" over its January 2003 issue, which allegedly published a fake image of her bare bottom, with Kylie's head placed on the body of a nude model. The magazine was also to be sued over the unauthorised use of copyrighted images from her autobiography "La La La" used in the same issue.
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After her cancer diagnosis was announced, public support in Australia was enormous; even Prime Minister John Howard issued a statement in support of her.
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Kylie Minogue has her own lingerie brand, called "Love Kylie."
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Kylie Minogue became the first Ambassador of the NSPCC, a charity that works to prevent cruelty to children.
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As of May 2004, Kylie Minogue was named the best-selling Australian artist of all time, with more than 65 million albums sold worldwide. She has also won numerous awards, including Logies, ARIAs and a Grammy.
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In her interviews, Kylie Minogue says that the most exciting part of meeting her famous fans is often that she is a big fan of theirs.
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Kylie Minogue placed in the top 5 for Best International Singer and Woman of the Year at the Maxim Magazine Awards.
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As a guest of His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Monaco, Kylie Minogue attended the 2002 World Music Awards in Monte Carlo, Monaco for the fifth time. At the ceremony she was named Best-Selling Australian Artist of the Year and performed a show, stopping another performance for "Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head," to a worldwide audience of more than a billion viewers.
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Kylie Minogue is the former sister-in-law of actor/producer Julian McMahon.
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1997 saw the emergence of a highly alternative Kylie Minogue after a two-year silence. Collaborations with Manic Street Preachers and others gave the album "Impossible Princess" an indie feel. Although not a commercial success, it was regarded by critics as the final proof that Kylie and her music had matured. In 2000, however, Kylie returned to her roots and to what she knows best with a tremendous comeback to pop music. The first single from the album "Light Years" immediately rose to number one in the UK, making her one of the few artists, alongside the likes of Madonna and Elton John, to have a number one hit in the eighties, nineties and twenties. Kylie also released a duet with pop star Robbie Williams titled "Kids."
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On 24 January 2004, at the French 2004 NRJ Awards held in Cannes, France, Kylie Minogue was nominated for Best International Female and Best Musical Website for www.kylie.com.
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At the 2002 Brit Awards, Kylie Minogue won two major awards: Best International Female and Best International Album for "Fever." She was also nominated for Best Pop Group and Best Video (with Robbie Williams for "Kids") and stole the show with an incredible performance of a mash-up of "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and "Blue Monday."
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Together with Kids Help Line and Optus, Kylie Minogue won an excellence award from the Australian Institute of Fundraising for the 2002 "Kids Help Line" fundraising campaign in Australia.
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Kylie Minogue is pictured on a 60-cent Australian commemorative postage stamp in the Living Legends series released on 18 January 2013. Other artists honoured in this issue included John Farnham, Paul Kelly, Ian 'Molly' Meldrum, Olivia Newton-John, AC/DC, Cold Chisel, INXS, Men at Work and The Seekers.
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More than eight million viewers in the United Kingdom alone watched her ITV television special An Audience with Kylie Minogue (2001).
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She announced her split from Olivier Martinez in a statement, saying the decision was mutual and amicable (2 February 2007).
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In a poll conducted in the United Kingdom, she was voted the 15th greatest pop culture icon of all time.
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16 May 2001: She attended the Los Angeles premiere of the film Moulin Rouge! (2001), in which she played the role of the Green Fairy.
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When the official 2003 Kylie calendar was released, it entered the number 1 best-sellers list of the year.
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She was honoured with the prestigious Woman of the Year award at the 2002 Elle Style Awards.
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She was named the Hottest Girl Star of the Year by the Daily Express.
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Her manager, Terry Blamey, was awarded Manager of the Year by the International Music Managers Forum.
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4 July 1988: Her self-titled debut album "Kylie" entered both the UK and Australian charts at number 2. No female artist's debut album had ever placed so high on both countries' charts before. The album also made Kylie the youngest woman and the first Australian artist to top the UK albums chart, and it reached the top on two separate occasions. On release it went double platinum in Australia and gold in the United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore.
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She was voted number 1 for Best Legs in Show Business by the razor company Gillette, ahead of Cameron Diaz, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss.
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The "Agent Provocateur" cinema advertisement won Best Cinema Ad of the Year at the British TV Awards.
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She was voted the 2nd Sexiest Woman of the Year by FHM magazine (after Carmen Electra).
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She appeared on the cover of British Vogue. The event made headlines on the evening news in Australia.
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"Kids", the third single from the album "Light Years", was originally written for her alone by Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers; however, Robbie liked the song so much that he decided to make it a duet and included it on his album "Sing When You're Winning".
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She attended the Royal Premiere of Moulin Rouge! (2001) alongside King Charles III, Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.
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She ranked 64th on Men's Health magazine's list of the 100 Hottest Women of All Time.
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She won the Best Artist award at the ILMC (International Live Music Conference), and her manager Terry Blamey was awarded Manager of the Year.
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8 September 2005: The "Official 2006 Kylie Calendar", featuring 13 stunning Kylie shots, was released by Danilo and became the year's best-selling calendar. It was the fourth consecutive year she had done so.
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Kylie Minogue was named one of the "Top 50 Hottest Babes Ever" by the weekly Australian men's magazine Zoo.
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Kylie Minogue won a 2007 Q Idol Award.
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On 28 October 2007, Kylie Minogue won the UK Music Industry Trusts Award. She was the first woman to win the prestigious award in the event's 16-year history.
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Kylie Minogue was appointed an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queen's New Year Honours for her services to music.
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Kylie Minogue launched her spectacular "Showgirl Homecoming Tour" in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia. Her first UK performance on the tour would be a special New Year's Eve show.
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Kylie Minogue has achieved 34 top 10 hits in the United Kingdom, including seven number ones, making her one of the most successful chart artists of all time.
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Kylie Minogue's debut album (1988) made her the first female solo artist to have an album sell over two million copies in the United Kingdom. The album is still the 58th best-selling album of all time.
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Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite: Les Folies Tour ranked 21st on Pollstar's Top 50 Worldwide Tours.
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Between 2000 and 2008, Kylie Minogue scored 16 top 10 hits in the United Kingdom, placing her second among female artists with the most top 10 singles of the decade. Britney Spears topped the list with 17 top 10 entries.
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Kylie Minogue is a Celebrity Ambassador for the children's helpline in Australia.
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On 9 November 2003, "Slow" became Kylie Minogue's seventh number one single in the United Kingdom and her ninth number one single in Australia. The single also earned her a place in the record books as the female solo artist with the longest span of UK chart-toppers (from "I Should Be So Lucky" in January 1988, a total of nearly 16 years). "Slow" also reached number one on the Australian Singles Dance Chart and number one on the Australasian Singles Chart.
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On 17 February 2004, Kylie Minogue was nominated for Best International Female at the 2004 Brit Awards held at Earls Court in London. It was her fifth nomination for the award, having been nominated in 1989, 1995 and 2001 and having won in 2002.
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Kylie Minogue was named Sexiest Woman of the Year by Star magazine.
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Kylie Minogue hosted "MTV Snowball: World Snowboard Championships" in Austria.
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Kylie Minogue was nominated for Best Music Artist at the 2004 Elle Style Awards (16 February 2004).
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In OK magazine's 2003 Readers' Poll, Kylie Minogue was voted the number one Sexiest Woman of the Year, the number one "Best Dressed Celebrity" and fourth "Best Solo Artist".
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Kylie Minogue was nominated for two Australian ARIA Music Awards, in the categories of Best Pop Release (for the album "Body Language") and Best Female Artist.
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Kylie Minogue's lingerie line "Love Kylie" received its first nomination in the Best Lingerie Brand category at the Company High Street Awards.
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On 30 January 2005, Kylie Minogue attended the charity gala for The Magic Roundabout (2004) at Leicester Square in London, held in aid of the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity.
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In February 2010, she appeared in a series of print advertisements for Tous Handbags. In the ads she posed as a sexy magician's assistant, including being sawn in half in an illusion called The Mis-made Girl.
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She was nominated for Best International Female at the 2004 Brit Awards (17 February 2004).
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In Sydney, Australia, she won two ARIA Music Awards: Best Female Artist and Best Pop Release for "Light Years".
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She was born at Bethlehem Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Her mother is Carol Minogue (also known as Carol Jones Minogue), and her father is accountant Ronald Charles "Ron" Minogue. Kylie grew up in Surrey Hills, an inner suburb of Melbourne.
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She received an honorary doctorate for her work raising awareness of breast cancer. On 5 October 2011, Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford, southern England, awarded her an honorary doctorate in Health Sciences.
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She ranked 27th on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists list.
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She placed 51st on the 2011 FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World list. She had previously placed 93rd in 2008, 37th in 2005, 19th in 2004, 9th in 2003, 6th in 2002, 44th in 2001, 67th in 2000, 34th in 1999, 22nd in 1998, 64th in 1997, 20th in 1996 and 14th in 1995.
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She received the Showbusiness Personality of the Year award at The Variety Club of Great Britain Showbusiness Awards 2002. Miss Minogue was not present at the ceremony because she was promoting her latest single abroad, and sent a message by television.
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She was invited by Australian director Baz Luhrmann, of Strictly Ballroom (1992) and Moulin Rouge! (2001), to pose at Universal Studios in Los Angeles for photographer Bert Stern, who was responsible for the world-famous Marilyn Monroe sessions. The result was an unprecedented 21-page "60's style" spread in the January 1993 issue of Australian Vogue.
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At the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony in New York, she presented an award to Mary J. Blige.
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Her lingerie line "Love Kylie" was finally released at Selfridges in the United Kingdom, generating a huge media frenzy and incredible sales results. Demand far outstripped supply at Selfridges, which doubled its orders to cope.
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Readers of the US magazine Smash Hits voted her their fourth "Best Female Singer", after Siouxsie Sioux, Debbie Gibson and Madonna. Meanwhile, demand for Kylie products in East Germany grew so much that a special EP was released.
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She was named Australia's Most Beautiful Export by the magazine Australian Trade.
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She was honoured with the Golden Otto award at the German Bravo Awards.
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The Manchester Evening News presented Kylie with a plaque for having sold out more shows at the Manchester Arena than any solo artist had ever done there.
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On 13 March 2004, she was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Pop award at the Bravo Supershow Awards in Hanover, Germany. The awards were voted for by readers of the German pop magazine Bravo.
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On 7 June 2006, she was named 'Woman of the Year' at the 2006 Glamour Awards.
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She was voted the best-dressed woman by readers of Heat (UK) magazine.
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Kylie Minogue was nominated for the prestigious Best International Female award at the 2001 Brit Awards.
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Kylie Minogue won Best Dance Act at the 2004 Swedish NRJ Awards in Stockholm on 25 January 2004.
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Kylie Minogue was nominated for Best International Female at the 1989 Brit Awards.
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Kylie Minogue's single "Slow" was the most-added track on US radio in its first week of release.
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Kylie Minogue posed with her own wax figure at the world-famous Madame Tussauds wax gallery in London.
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Kylie Minogue was voted "Sexiest Pop Pin Up" by viewers of the VH1 music channel worldwide.
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Kylie Minogue hosted the MTV Awards in Paris, France.
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Kylie Minogue was voted the 6th Sexiest Woman of the Decade by readers of the UK's Sky magazine.
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Readers of Sky magazine voted Kylie Minogue (and her sister Dannii Minogue) among the Top 10 women readers would most want to spend the night with.
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Kylie Minogue was voted among the 10 Sexiest Women Alive in Australia's Who Weekly magazine.
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Kylie Minogue was honoured with the Silver Clef Award's Nordoff Robbins "International Award"; previous winners of this prestigious award include U2, INXS, AC/DC, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and The Corrs.
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Kylie Minogue was one of the most downloaded artists on Napster, with an incredible number of downloads (nearly 17 million) under her name over the past year.
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Kylie Minogue was voted the second most searched-for female artist of the past year (2000), after Madonna, beating other "powerful" female artists such as Mariah Carey (3rd), Céline Dion (4th) and Jennifer Lopez (5th).
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Kylie Minogue won "Best Pop Artist" in a readers' poll by the Australian edition of Rolling Stone.
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Kylie Minogue was voted the World's Number 1 Sexiest Celebrity by the UK's Heat magazine.
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Kylie Minogue received an ARIA nomination for Best Australian Female Artist.
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Kylie Minogue signed a major recording deal with Parlophone Records, part of the EMI Group, and began work on her seventh studio album, "Light Years".
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Kylie Minogue was nominated for Best Female Artist and Best Pop Artist at the 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards.
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Kylie Minogue's wax figure at Madame Tussauds in the UK was voted "Top Pop Star" and "Most Beautiful Woman" in Madame Tussauds' 2002 Annual Popularity Poll.
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A survey of office workers found that most employees would rate Kylie as the "Ideal Female Boss."
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She triumphed at the 2002 MTV Europe Music Awards, taking the Best Pop Group and Best Dance Group awards.
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Her career's biggest year for awards: at the 2002 Brit Awards she won Best International Female Artist and Best International Album for "Fever"; she also took Single of the Year at the Dutch Edison Awards (for "Can't Get You Out of My Head"), the Golden Otto at the German Bravo Awards, and Best Pop Group at the German Bravo Awards.
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FHM magazine named her the 3rd Most Beautiful Woman of the Decade.
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She ranked 1st in Maxim magazine's Sexiest Older Woman poll.
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She was voted Most Fantasized Woman by Melody Maker readers.
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On 23 March 2005, she was nominated for London's Most Loved International Artist at the 2005 Capital Radio Awards, held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London.
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She was nominated for Best International Female at the 1995 Brit Awards.
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She recorded her ninth studio album, "Body Language," in London, Ireland and Spain.
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On 25 January 2004, at the Swedish 2004 NRJ Awards in Stockholm, she won Best Dance Act, beating strong competition such as Room 5 and Junior Senior. She was also nominated for Best International Female and Best Pop.
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On 10 April 2004, the music video for "Slow" won Best International Video at the 2004 TMF Awards held at Rotterdam Arena in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Kylie was also nominated for Best Female Singer.
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On 9 June 2004, the music video for "Slow" won Best Pop Video at the Music Week Creative and Design Awards.
- #106
On 17 October 2004, her video for "Chocolate" was nominated in the Music Video category at the 10th annual American Choreography Awards.
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On 3 November 2004, she hosted an intimate preview of the SS '05 Love Kylie collection and launched the Love Kylie Legs hosiery line in London.
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On 21 November 2004, she was inducted into the Smash Hits Hall of Fame when she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Smash Hits T4 Poll Winners' Party at Wembley Arena in London. First appearing on the annual pop awards show in October 1989, Kylie was honoured for her 17-year contribution to music.
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She was nominated for Online Artist of the Year and Best Pop Artist at the 2004 Digital Music Awards.
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Kylie Minogue was named Best International Female Artist at the Irish Record Industry Awards by a wide margin.
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The Japanese Phonographic Record Association presented Kylie Minogue with two 1988 Disc Awards: Best Selling New Artist and Best Selling Single of the Year, for "I Should Be So Lucky".
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Readers of the British magazine "No 1's" voted her Best Female Singer, Best Female Actress and Most Lovable Female, and gave her second place for Most Masterful LP.
- #113
Kylie Minogue came in at number one in the record Mirror poll of the best recording acts of 1988 in the United Kingdom, compiled from sales information on more than 40,000 different records gathered by Gallup.
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Readers of the London Sun voted Kylie Minogue their Number 1 Female Singer and Best Newcomer Singer.
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Readers of the British magazine Smash Hits voted her Most Admired Female and Best Female Singer.
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In 1989 she was voted the Number 1 Radio Artist in France, ahead of David Hallyday in second, Madonna in third and Phil Collins in fourth.
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She received the International Achievement Award voted to her by the board of the Australian Record Industry Association.
- #118
Scandecor gave her a "Gold Poster" award for sales of its Kylie poster, its best-selling product in Europe. Kylie also received a "Silver Poster" award for the poster of her duet "Especially for You" with Jason Donovan.
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She was honoured as only the third artist to have a star on the Hard Rock Walk of Fame in Sydney, Australia.
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Her first concert tour of Australia, the "Enjoy Yourself Tour", was a great success. In April 1990 her United Kingdom, European and South East Asian tour began in Birmingham, where Kylie played to a hall of 12,700 screaming fans, and continued before crowds in London, Belfast and Dublin. In May 1990 it went on with packed houses in London, Paris and Brussels, where Kylie's performances pleased both audiences and press.
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The Australian Variety Industry honoured her with the "Mo Award" as Australian Showbusiness Ambassador.
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In Brussels she was awarded the prestigious Diamond Award for Musical Excellence.
- #123
At the 1991 World Music Awards in Monte Carlo she was a personal guest of Prince Albert of Monaco alongside Elton John, Rick Astley, Lisa Stansfield and many other major artists of the world, and was awarded "Best Selling Australian Artist". In May 1992 Prince Albert invited her once again to the 1992 World Music Awards.
- #124
She signed her second worldwide record deal with Deconstruction Records through RCA/BMG in the United Kingdom, with Imago through BMG in the United States, Mushroom Records in Australia/New Zealand and BMG through the rest of the world.
- #125
She was invited for the third time by Prince Albert of Monaco to the 1993 Monte Carlo World Music Awards, hosted by Michael Douglas and attended by leading names in music such as Michael Jackson, Tina Turner and Rod Stewart.
- #126
She was named the Coolest Woman in the World in Music by Select magazine in London.
- #127
His Majesty Prince Albert of Monaco invited her to the 1994 World Music Awards for the fourth consecutive time. That year's awards were also attended by Prince, Whitney Houston and Ray Charles, among others.
- #128
Kylie Minogue began filming her second movie, the $40 million Street Fighter (1994), which Jean-Claude Van Damme shot in Thailand and Australia. When the film was released in the United States in December 1994, it took the second-highest box office receipts nationwide in its first month with $100,000, making it the most successful film ever adapted from a video game.
- #129
At the Smash Hits Awards in the United Kingdom, Kylie Minogue was voted among the Best 10 Albums, Best Single and Best Female Solo Singer.
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Kylie Minogue hosted the prestigious People's Choice Awards in Sydney, Australia.
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Kylie Minogue appeared on the cover of the July issue of Loaded magazine in the United Kingdom. It sold nearly 150,000 copies against an average of 110,000, making it the magazine's best-selling issue ever.
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Kylie Minogue was appointed an AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 2019 Australia Day Honours List for distinguished service to the performing arts as a national and international recording artist and entertainer.
- #133
Kylie Minogue holds the record for the most total weeks spent at number one on the UK singles chart by a female artist.
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Kylie Minogue has small, soft feet (UK size 3, US size 5), which she likes to show in music videos whether barefoot or in high heels.
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Kylie Minogue was in a relationship with Joshua Sasse (2015-2017).
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Kylie Minogue was born on a Tuesday at 11:00.
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Kylie Minogue idolised Olivia Newton-John.
- #138
Kylie Minogue received her second 'Heart Award' for Recording Artist of the Year from the Australian Variety Club.
- #139
'Kylie's Remixes Vol. 1' was first released in Japan in 1989 and contained extended versions of hit tracks from her debut album. The album was later re-released in Australia in 1998 as part of Mushroom Records' 'Classics'.
- #140
Readers of the Australian Smash Hits magazine voted Kylie Minogue 'Most Fanciable Female' and 'Best Female Singer'. Readers of the Australian magazine TV Hits voted her 'Hunkiest Person Alive' and 'Best Female TV Personality'.
- #141
Kylie Minogue won the 'Best Chart Act' award at the London Dancestar Awards.
- #142
Kylie Minogue won the 'Best International Dance Act' award at the 2002 Italian Dance Awards.
- #143
On 15 February 2005, Kylie Minogue stole the show at the 2005 Elle Style Awards held at London's popular Spitalfields Market, wearing a striking Chanel dress. She was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Britain's annual 'Style Oscars' and posed for a photo with her Australian friend and fellow award winner Cate Blanchett.
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