2. MICHAEL HUTCHENCE

18 MONTHS

Dated: 1989-1991 THE charismatic singer of INXS introduced himself to Kylie by saying: ‘I don’t know what we should do first, have lunch or have sex?’

Their passionate relationship and enduring friendship would indicate they managed to combine the two. Fellow Aussie Hutchence liked to claim he was responsible for the then 21-year-old’s sexual awakening.

She admitted he ‘opened my eyes to the world’.

Kylie abandoned her wholesome image for him but, sadly, he moved on to Danish supermodel Helena Christensen before his doomed affair with TV host Paula Yates. Hutchence took his own life in November 1997.