Kylie’s record earnings
Star worth £73m
KYLIE Minogue has often flaunted her enviable figure in music videos and it turns out her financial ones are worth making a song and dance about too.
Last year the I Should Be So Lucky star, 52, made £1.8million, despite the pandemic.
And her estimated net worth has hit an all-time high of £73m.
The impressive bottom line comes as Kylie basks in the success of 15th album Disco. And rumours she is engaged to GQ mag boss Paul Solomons, 46, are also keeping her in the spotlight.
After the release of her latest record, Kylie said: “It’s a beautiful thing to have had a relationship, through all of its ups and downs, over such a long time with the public. It makes me feel like I should be older than I am.”
Love
Latest figures for Kylie’s company Darenote Ltd showed net assets up £1.9m to £4.9m in the year to June 30, 2020. Assets in her other firm, Ten Minutes Touring Ltd, fell just over £100,000 to £1.7m in the same period.
Kylie shot to fame as an 18-yearold in Aussie soap Neighbours.
And the hits have not stopped since debut Locomotion in 1987. She has had seven UK No 1s, including Spinning Around and Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.
She now has a string of endorsement deals, including for specs, and is set to start a range of wine.
Fans got excited when she posted a picture of herself with a ring on her engagement finger. They hoped she had said yes to boyfriend of two years, Paul.
But Kylie has denied reports by saying: “We all love love but rumours are getting out of hand.”
She previously dated Neighbours on-screen husband Jason Donovan, before her love with INXS’S Michael Hutchence.
Kylie was also linked to French actor Olivier Martinez, who was “her rock” after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2005.
THE sister of a mum who overdosed after her benefits were cut fears more tragedy unless the welfare system is overhauled.
Imogen Day is horrified at the way the Department for Work and Pensions and assessors Capita handled the case.
Sister Philippa, 27, was agoraphobic and repeatedly asked for a home assessment. She was found collapsed with a DWP letter on her pillow saying there would be no visit – and died in October 2019 after two months in a coma.
Devastated Imogen, 24, says Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey and her officials need to act.
She said: “Pip wasn’t the first to die and won’t be the last. The process is distressing, it has led to multiple similar instances and they are still denying they have a duty of care and a safeguarding duty.
“The assessment process is not fit for purpose, it is not fit for disabled people. The forms are 90 pages long, asking people to go into intense detail. And there was no way
Pip was going to be able to go to a face-to-face assessment.
“Every health professional in her life told them that. But the decision-makers believed she had to go and that was that.”
Philippa, a mum of one from Mapperley, Nottingham, was diagnosed with unstable personality disorder and had diabetes. She was on enhanced disability benefits but payments were halved in a clerical wrangle.
At her inquest last month, Coroner Gordon Clow found 28 “systemic errors” and issued a Prevention of Future Deaths Report to the DWP and Capita.
They must address the lack of specific training for call handlers, a poor record of the calls and failure to ensure correspondence is accurate and does not cause unnecessary distress.
Imogen, a social work advocate from Leeds, welcomed the report but remains heartbroken at the impact Philippa’s death has had on her son.
She said: “They have not just hurt us, they have ruined a child’s life.
Crying
“He’s five and wakes up at night crying because his mum’s not there. They had a wonderful relationship, always laughing and giggling. She’d chase him around the house tickling him and he loved it.”
Imogen and her family, who are represented by Leigh Day partner Merry Varney, are considering legal action against the DWP and Capita. The DWP said: “This is a deeply tragic case. “Our sincere condolences are with Miss Day’s family. We will respond to the Coroner’s report in due course.”
Capita said: “We are thoroughly reviewing the coroner’s recommendations.”
They have not just hurt us, they’ve ruined a
child’s life