Kylie put her career before her happiness
Only one wedding in the Eighties came close to capturing as many British hearts as the fairytale marriage between Charles and Diana — the nuptials between Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan in the TV soap neighbours.
Six years after the 1981 Royal Wedding, which had a UK TV audience of 28 million, Kylie’s Aussie bombshell character Charlene wed Scott, the love of her life played by Jason, with 20 million breathless viewers looking on.
The Aussie became Britain’s favourite girl-next-door and went on to become the Princess of Pop, with 70 million album sales over a 30-year music career.
How different her world is today. Kylie, 48, has just asked her struggling actor fiancé Joshua Sasse — who’s nearly 20 years her junior — to leave their (er, her) multi-million-pound West london home amid reports he has been cheating on her with a Spanish actress.
The idea of a tear-stained Kylie after the split is heartbreaking. For there has never been a greater proponent of love than her.
She has searched for decades to find Mr Right. And after doomed relationships with Donovan, the late InXS singer Michael Hutchence, model Andres Velencoso and French actor Olivier Martinez, she finally believed she’d found him. Only last Tuesday, she was on ITV’s This Morning professing her love for Sasse, saying she’d change her surname to his when they married.
When she appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2015, it was ‘their tune’, Stevie Wonder’s love’s In need Of love Today, that she chose.
Another choice was a recording of Sasse reading a rather erotic poem written by his late poet father: ‘I would bend press my eager face into your neck, where the secret flesh is furred like peaches behind a curtain of caramelscented curls.’
She spoke of the possibility of children and declared: ‘I have a love of my life which is just a beautiful thing. I am on cloud nine most of the time because of Mr Joshua Sasse, my beau.’
So why has it all gone wrong? The truth is that this sunny, vibrant woman has terrible judgment when it comes to men — and I’m afraid she’s always put her acting and pop career before everything else.
you can’t possibly amass a personal fortune of more than £60million without making sacrifices.
Kylie is an admirably driven woman, constantly on tour, promoting herself and recording albums. But it’s always been her career first, with personal happiness second.
The result is that her hopes of comfort and companionship as she reaches middle age are ebbing away.
Has the time come to hang up your gold hotpants, Kylie? It’s not too late to concentrate on what really makes you happy, happy, happy.