Kylie’s spinning around with joy
PEOPLE said it was over, but Kylie Minogue will be reunited with her British boyfriend imminently as the couple, who met in 2018, strive to keep their romance going long-distance. Kylie and GQ magazine executive Paul Solomons, 47, have been apart almost continuously for six months since she made the surprise decision to relocate to Australia last year. That led to speculation the romance had run its course — but I’m told that they are ‘very much still an item’ and are looking forward to being reunited in London to celebrate her 54th birthday next month. The singer had lived in the UK for 30 years but, after spending time with her family in Australia due to Covid, she decided that she wanted to be closer to them permanently, particularly as her parents are getting on.
Kylie — who has this week been posting iconic throwback pictures of herself in a silver bra and skirt on the record-breaking Fever tour of 2002 — is now living in Melbourne, close to her mum and dad, sister Dannii and brother Brendan.
Somewhat surprisingly, Solomons did not relocate to Australia to be with her. I hear that she has twice made the 10,500-mile trip to see him without him repaying the favour — once combining a trip to the UK with a visit to Milan Fashion Week.
A friend said: ‘They were last together in March when she spent some time in London and they will be together again there soon. She’s excited to see him. It’s true that they haven’t seen as much of each other as they would have liked but this has been logistical.’
In an interview with an Australian newspaper in February, she said of the long-distance romance: ‘I’m quite used to it. What is difficult is explaining it, and I’m hovering around that right now because I don’t have a traditional set-up when it comes to my relationship; I don’t have the white-picket-fence life. We are in a very good space and we cherish that right now.’
She added that she thinks the ‘other life’ of being married or in a conventional family unit may never happen. ‘As I get older and into being myself, I don’t know if that other life is for me,’ she said.
‘We use the term “fluid and pivoting”, and I think it’s important to be fluid in life, too. You don’t need to be put in a box.’