Danielle Jane Minogue is an Australian singer, television personality and actress.
96 Facts About Dannii Minogue
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Dannii Minogue came to prominence for her appearances on the television show Young Talent Time and for her role as Emma Jackson on the soap opera Home and Away.
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The late 1990s saw a brief return to music after Dannii Minogue reinvented herself as a dance artist with her third album, Girl, and its lead single "All I Wanna Do".
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Dannii Minogue starred in her own reality series Style Queen, and has presented the television shows It's Not Just Saturday, Dance Boss, Ultimate Beastmaster, and I Kissed a Boy.
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Danielle Jane Dannii Minogue was brought up in Surrey Hills, Melbourne and attended Camberwell Primary School and later Camberwell High School.
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Dannii Minogue is the younger daughter of Carol Ann Jones, a dancer from Maesteg, Wales, and accountant Ronald Charles Minogue.
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Dannii Minogue is the youngest of three children; her older sister is singer Kylie Minogue, while her brother Brendan is a news cameraman in Australia.
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Dannii Minogue began her career as a child on Australian television.
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Dannii Minogue recorded her first solo recordings for the programme, including a cover version of Madonna's hit single "Material Girl"; during this time, she performed live at several sold-out nationwide concert tours.
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In 1988, Dannii Minogue departed from Young Talent Time to continue her acting career, appearing as the rebellious tomboyish teenager Emma Jackson on the soap opera Home and Away in 1989.
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Dannii Minogue proved to be popular among Australian audiences when she was nominated for a Silver Logie as the Most Popular Actress on Australian television.
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In September 1988, Minogue released her own fashion range, Dannii.
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Dannii Minogue became interested in fashion design while appearing on Young Talent Time.
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Dannii Minogue had designed the clothing she had worn on the show, and the positive response from the audience resulted in her releasing her own line.
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Minogue's debut line Dannii sold out across Australia in ten days and was followed by three additional summer lines in 1989.
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Dannii Minogue signed a recording contract with Australian-based Mushroom Records in January 1989.
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Also that year, Dannii Minogue made her feature film debut in Secrets, which co-starred Noah Taylor.
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The film was not well received by audiences or critics, with Dannii Minogue's performance being described as "not all that convincing".
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In mid-1994, Dannii Minogue returned to television as a presenter, co-hosting Channel 4's morning show The Big Breakfast in the UK.
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In 1995, Dannii Minogue released the singles "Rescue Me" and "Boogie Woogie", a collaboration with dance act Eurogroove.
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Dannii Minogue began recording her third album in 1995; however, Minogue and her record label, Mushroom Records, parted ways in late 1995 following a contract disagreement.
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In 1991, Dannii Minogue appeared before the Queen at the Royal Variety Show where she sang "Success".
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In 1996, Dannii Minogue resumed her co-hosting duties, presenting the Eggs on Legs road show segment.
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That same year, Dannii Minogue briefly hosted the children's show Disney Time and co-hosted, with Gareth Jones, the teenage Saturday morning entertainment show It's Not Just Saturday for 16.
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In 1997, Dannii Minogue hosted Top of the Pops, a British music chart television programme, before returning to her recording career later that year.
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At the 1998 Mo Awards, Dannii Minogue was nominated for "Best Female Musical Theater Performer" for her role.
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In June 1998, Dannii Minogue began The Unleashed Tour, a 22-date UK tour.
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In January 1999, following her performance at the 1998 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Dannii Minogue released the festival's first official theme song, "Everlasting Night".
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In 2001, Dannii Minogue signed a six-album deal with London Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music International.
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In March 2003, Dannii Minogue released her fourth album, Neon Nights, which the BBC called "a pleasant cocktail of pop sophistication, club culture and accessibility".
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In October 2004, Dannii Minogue released the single "You Won't Forget About Me", a collaboration with the dance act Flower Power.
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In September 2006, Dannii Minogue's cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" appeared on Spirit of Christmas, a compilation album of holiday songs available through the Myer department store chain across Australia.
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In November 2006, Dannii Minogue performed Sister Sledge's 1979 song "He's the Greatest Dancer" on BBC One's Children in Need telethon.
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In early 2008, Dannii Minogue was hired as the headline performer at Australian Fashion Week.
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Dannii Minogue released Club Disco as a double album in Australia with some changes to the track listing.
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On 7 December 2009, Dannii Minogue released The 1995 Sessions, an album full of previously unreleased recordings made for what would have been her then third studio album, which never materialised due to differences with her then label.
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In total Dannii Minogue's music has achieved more than 200 weeks on the UK Sales Chart and she has sold more than seven-million records worldwide.
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In January 2012, Dannii Minogue appeared in the ITV documentary The Talent Show Story where she talked about her time on The X Factor UK and working on talent shows.
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In September 2013, Dannii Minogue teamed up with Ronan Keating to record a duet of the Christmas classic "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" for department store chain Myer's The Spirit of Christmas 2013 compilation.
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In late 2014, Dannii Minogue recorded a cover version of "That's How You Know" for the Australian We Love Disney album.
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In February 2015, Dannii Minogue announced that, after a long hiatus, she planned to make her musical comeback at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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On 2 November 2017, Dannii Minogue confirmed she would release a song titled "Galaxy" on 10 November, a day before the tour was due to start.
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In 2007, Dannii Minogue became a judge on the fourth series of The X Factor UK, alongside Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne.
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Dannii Minogue mentored the Boys category and selected Leon Jackson, Rhydian Roberts and Andy Williams to represent her in the live rounds of the competition.
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Dannii Minogue was the first female judge to win the show.
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On 20 September 2008, Dannii Minogue presented the Nickelodeon UK Kids' Choice Awards ceremony.
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That same year, Dannii Minogue returned to the show's fifth series alongside Cowell, Walsh and Cheryl Cole, who replaced Osbourne.
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Dannii Minogue chose Daniel Evans, Rachel Hylton and Ruth Lorenzo as her final three contestants for the live shows and was assisted by Spice Girls member Emma Bunton.
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On 22 November 2008, during a live broadcast of the programme, Dannii Minogue broke down in tears and was unable to introduce one of her acts, Rachel Hylton, following an on-air row with Louis Walsh over a choice of song.
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Dannii Minogue later stated that she did not enjoy her experience on the fifth series and "would never want to go through that again".
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Dannii Minogue returned for the sixth series in 2009 and mentored the Girls category.
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Dannii Minogue chose Rachel Adedeji, Lucie Jones and Stacey Solomon as her final three acts to compete in the live shows and was assisted at the judges' houses stage by her older sister, Kylie Minogue.
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Dannii Minogue mentored the Boys category selecting Nicolo Festa, Matt Cardle and Aiden Grimshaw as her final three, with Paije Richardson as her wildcard act.
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Dannii Minogue was assisted by fellow Australian and friend Natalie Imbruglia who was a guest judge in the Birmingham auditions that year filling in for Dannii Minogue.
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Cardle was her only act to make it into the final and eventually won, with Dannii Minogue becoming the winning mentor for the second time.
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In January 2012, Dannii Minogue appeared on the ITV documentary The Talent Show Story where she talked about her time on The X Factor and working on talent shows.
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In September 2016, it was revealed Dannii Minogue was returning to British television, as a judge on the judging panel of Gary Barlow talent show Let It Shine alongside fellow judges Martin Kemp and Barlow.
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In 2007, Dannii Minogue was hired by Simon Cowell to become a judge on the Seven Network talent show Australia's Got Talent along with Red Symons and Tom Burlinson.
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Dannii Minogue returned to the panel for seasons two and three in 2008 and 2009.
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Australia's Got Talent returned for a fourth season in 2010, and Dannii Minogue was the only original judge to remain on the panel as producers revamped the series.
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Dannii Minogue returned for the fifth season in 2011 and the sixth season in 2012.
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Dannii Minogue was replaced by Geri Halliwell in the Nine Network's version of the show.
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In 2013, Dannii Minogue joined the judging panel of the fifth season of The X Factor Australia as Mel B's replacement.
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Dannii Minogue joined returning judges Ronan Keating and Natalie Bassingthwaighte and fellow new judge Redfoo, who replaced Guy Sebastian.
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Dannii Minogue mentored the Over 24s category and one of her acts Dami Im became the winner.
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Dannii Minogue reprised her judging role for the sixth season in 2014.
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Dannii Minogue mentored the Groups category and one of her acts Brothers3 placed third in the competition.
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Dannii Minogue returned for the seventh season in 2015 for the final time as a judge where she mentored the Girls Category and ended up losing all of her acts by the 7th week of the show.
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Dannii Minogue returned for the second season alongside Jackie O and Hughes, and new judge Urzila Carlson who replaced Lohan.
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In 1999, Dannii Minogue returned to theatre, starring in the production of Shakespeare's Macbeth at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Two years later, Dannii Minogue appeared as Esmeralda in the musical production of Notre-Dame de Paris in London's West End.
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In 2001, Dannii Minogue appeared in the stage play The Vagina Monologues, which co-starred Kika Markham and Meera Syal.
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Broadcast in Australia and the UK, Dannii Minogue played songs by up-and-coming DJs, as well as her own music.
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Dannii Minogue departed London Records when Warner dismissed its staff and offered Dannii Minogue a deal to depart the label or stay and wait a year to release her next album which had been partially recorded.
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Dannii Minogue collaborated with producers Hugo Lira, Gareth Young, Ian Masterson, Ross Callum and Pascal Gabriel.
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The praise Dannii Minogue got from the tabloids on The X Factor led her to set up her own fashion label with Tabitha Somerset-Webb called Project D, as well as a fragrance.
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In May 2013, Dannii Minogue announced that she would no longer be associated with Project D, ending a three-year collaboration with Somerset-Webb.
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In late July 2011, it was announced that Dannii Minogue would serve as the ambassador for 2011's Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, a role that will see Dannii Minogue participate in a series of appearances in September.
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In 2014 Dannii Minogue continued her expansion into the fashion world by launching her own ecommerce store fashion saga.
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Dannii Minogue has been a global ambassador for Etihad Airways since 2008.
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Dannii Minogue filmed her first commercial in South Africa, which featured Cheryl Lynn's "Got to be Real", for their Spring campaign that aired 24 March 2010.
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Dannii Minogue starred alongside Twiggy, Lisa Snowdon, VV Brown and Ana Beatriz Barros.
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Dannii Minogue is a former face of world-famous cosmetics brand ModelCo, appearing in ad campaigns for the company.
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On 5 April 2015 Dannii Minogue was announced as the 2015 Style Ambassador for Westfield Australia.
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In January 2017, Dannii Minogue was announced as an Ambassador for L'Oreal Australia.
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In January 1994, Dannii Minogue married actor Julian McMahon, whom she met in 1990 while working on the television series Home and Away.
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Dannii Minogue stated that McMahon's mother, Lady Sonia McMahon threatened not to attend their wedding and caused a rift.
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In October 1995, Dannii Minogue posed nude in the Australian edition of Playboy.
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In October 1999, Dannii Minogue became engaged to 1997 Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, but their relationship ended in 2001.
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On 9 January 2010, it was announced that Dannii Minogue was pregnant; the news was revealed after receiving her 12-week scan.
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In 2002, the British National Party, a far-right and anti-immigration political party, falsely claimed that Dannii Minogue supported their cause following comments she had made in an interview with Britain's GQ.
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Dannii Minogue received much criticism during series 6 of The X Factor.
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Dannii Minogue was on TV every week from 7 years old.
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Dannii Minogue has performed multiple times at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and the London nightclub G-A-Y.
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Dannii Minogue is an ambassador for the Terrence Higgins Trust, an organisation that works to increase awareness of AIDS.
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Dannii Minogue has long been a supporter of breast cancer research and in August 2008 became an ambassador for the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre Appeal.