Still the girl next door, Kylie turns 50 today
May 28, 2018
GROWING old gracefully seems to be working for Kylie Minogue – who looked happy and youthful as she stepped out on the eve of her 50th birthday yesterday.
The singer, who swore off Botox in 2010, wore a white flowing dress and gold strappy heels for lunch with friends at the fashionable Chiltern Firehouse in west London. She will be back there tonight for a star-studded private party celebrating her five decades.
Miss Minogue, who rose to fame in the Australian soap opera Neighbours at 18, has became even more glamorous and confident over the decades.
She denies ever having a facelift and says she gave up Botox because ‘I didn’t look like me’ – swearing by a simple £3.99 pot of Pond’s Cold Cream instead.
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE MAY 28, 1947
THE War Office has approved the marriage of ATS Sergeant Monica Patricia Cann, a 21-year-old Liverpool girl, to her German prisoner-of-war husband, Leo Ganter, aged 26. They met when Ganter was working at the Royal Army Ordnance Corps camp at Donnington, Shropshire, where Sgt Monica teaches shorthand and typing. They were married secretly at a local register office, but when it became known, were separated while the War Office considered the case.
MAY 28, 1963
CASSIUS CLAy is in London to fight Henry Cooper next month and claim the heavyweight title. Clay calls himself The Mouth, and it is widely agreed that it is one of his more modest statements. He is also known as the Louisville Lip, the Kentucky Klaxon, the Garrulous Gladiator. He says with dignity: ‘I’m the Greatest.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
KyLIE MINOGUE, 50. The London- based Grammywinning Australian pop star and actress secured her sixth UK No. 1 album last month. The gold hotpants (right) she wore for her 2000 video of Spinning Around, which she bought for 50p at a London market stall, have now been retired to a museum in her home city of Melbourne. JONNIE PEACOCK, 25. The Cambridgeborn sprinter won gold at the London and Rio Paralympics and was the first disabled contestant on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. His right leg was amputated after he contracted meningitis at five. Peacock holds out hope that ‘later in life there will be leg transplant available. A lot is happening in transplantation, so fingers crossed.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
WILLIAM PITT the younger (1759-1806). The Kent-born son of William Pitt the Elder graduated from Cambridge at 17, became an MP at 21 and PM at 24 — the youngest in British history. He introduced the first income tax in Britain in 1799 and a year later oversaw the Act of Union for Britain and Ireland. Sickly from childhood, he was advised to drink port for medical reasons and became a ‘three-bottle-a-day man’. DAME THORA HIRD ( 1911- 2003). The triple Bafta-winning actress from Lancashire (right) appeared in sitcoms In Loving Memory and Last Of The Summer Wine. The star of more than 100 films, she made her theatrical debut in 1911 aged two months, carried on stage by her mum in a play directed by her dad. IN 1742, Britain’s first indoor swimming pool opened in London. IN 1972, the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII, died, aged 77 in Paris. GUESS THE DEFINITION: Myomancy A) Divination by the movements of mice. C) Divination using fingernails. B) Divination using pebbles. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Up to the mark — meaning up to standard; the mark refers to the hallmark stamped by the Assay Office on gold and silver articles that are of approved quality.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
When I was young, I found that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks. Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist (1879-1955)
JOKE OF THE DAY
I INVENTED a cold air balloon. But it never really took off. Guess The Definition answer: A.