A PIECE OF DANNII

Dannii Minogue has revealed that she feels "addicted" to The X Factor after two years of appearing on the hit talent show.

The Australian singer joined the ITV1 programme for the 2007 series, which saw her mentoring the top two acts, Leon Jackson and Rhydian Roberts. Last year, she returned to her role but lost all of her singers before the semi-final.

Speaking to The National Newspaper, she explained: "I like the mentoring and the working with the artists that you're given. Having performed and knowing how nervous they are, you feel really protective about them.

"I want to make sure I've done my best so they can get out there and enjoy it, and maybe win. They want it so much, you can see it in their eyes."

Commenting on the continued speculation over her future with the show, the star added: "Who knows what's going on? None of us knows what's going on.

"I would like to go on. It gets addictive. I'm not competitive for myself but I get so involved and protective of the contestants that I want to make sure they are looked after - they're like my babies. It's the first time I had that kind of feeling about something."

Simon Cowell recently praised Minogue's commitment to the programme, naming her as the hardest-working judge.

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Dannii will be a guest in The Pam Ann Show on April 15th at 21:30 on The Comedy Channel.



Pam Ann is the comic creation of Australian comedian Caroline Reid who portrays the 1960s-clad air hostess with a mixture of comedy and glamour. Fresh from a major UK tour, sell-out shows in New York, a sell-out 25 date European Tour and a hit run at the Edinburgh Festival, Pucci-clad Pam has also toured with Cher, crewed private jets for Elton John and even Madonna is a fan!

Kylie Minogue has slammed X Factor judge Louis Walsh and labelled him "pathetic". The '2 Hearts' singer criticised Walsh for the way he treated her sister Dannii Minogue on the ITV1 series.

"I think it makes it [hard] for her when she gets Louis Walsh's rather pathetic jibes - one of which is she hasn't had a hit record," she told Elle."That's not true. He has no idea where she's come from. No idea. And neither does England. And that's quite hard.

"She was on TV every week from seven years old. I'm just so proud of my sister and it annoys the hell out of me when comparisons between us are made in an unfavourable way to her."

The star added that suggestions that Dannii and fellow judge Cheryl Cole didn't see eye to eye were "so cheap".

"We all know there were issues between Sharon and my sister. But I don't think there were any between her and Cheryl," she said.


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Neither rain nor recession could cloud the glamour at the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival launch.

Dutch glamazon Doutzen Kroes, festival ambassador April-Rose Pengilly and Dannii Minogue sat front row with Governor David de Kretser and Premier John Brumby for a retrospective of mostly 20th-century looks.


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AUSTRALIA'S Got Talent star Dannii Minogue has spoken about being bullied to be thin when she was younger and curvier.

"I was 19 when I moved to London and the British press put a huge amount of pressure on me – they said I was too fat because I wasn't the same size as my sister," Minogue has told Who's Bodies at Every Age issue.

"And you go, well, funny about that because we're two different people!"I definitely felt bullied, but that's just the size I was.

"What was weird was that I felt comfortable in myself, I just couldn't understand why it was a problem for everyone else. It wasn't their body, they weren't walking around in it."

Minogue 37, who was photographed for the magazine with Sonia Kruger, 43, and Jennifer Hawkins, 25, said she was happier than ever with her foxy figure."

From 28 on, I started to feel really excited about finding a different type of body confidence," she said.

"It just feels like you're in your skin. I definitely feel like I'm getting better as I'm getting older."

Sharon Osbourne has launched a fresh attack on Dannii Minogue, claiming that the Aussie popstar was "awful" to work with on The X Factor.

The music manager quit the ITV1 talent show last year following her highly-publicised feud with Minogue on the fourth series.

Speaking to the Daily Mail about her decision, Osbourne explained: "Can you imagine having to go into work every day and sit beside someone you can't stand? You would go mad. Well, I thought: 'Life's too short. What am I putting up with this for?'"

Asked why Minogue irritated her so much, she replied: "I don't know. Just the way that you sometimes meet somebody and it doesn't work - and that's what happened, and it went from bad to worse, from worse to awful to uncomfortable."

"Anyone who knows me knows I am a woman's woman," Osbourne continued. "I try to get on with people, but even though I sat beside her for all that time, I have no idea who she is. No idea what makes her tick. She doesn't give anything of herself."

The star added that she believes rumours of ill-feeling between Minogue and Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole, the programme's latest recruit.

She revealed: "I love Cheryl. She is relevant, she is gorgeous and she is young - so she's a threat to Dannii on those three levels."

Osbourne has recently made headlines by branding Minogue "an iceberg" and claiming that the singer "wanted to f*** Simon Cowell".

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