KYLIE MINOGUE’S family have spoken of their joy at her resurgence over the past 12 months – but have revealed they are not keen on her new Marilyn Monroe look.
The Australian singer’s comeback single, 2 Hearts, stormed into the top 10 of the charts, as did her new album, X, while her appearance in yesterday’s Doctor Who Christmas special guaranteed her a central position in the festive television schedules.
Ron Riddiford, Kylie’s great-uncle, who lives in Maesteg, told the Western Mail he was pleased that Kylie is “back to her old, lovely self” and filming again.
But he said he prefers her natural look, as opposed to the Marilyn Monroe gear she sports in the video for 2 Hearts.
Mr Riddiford, 75, brother of Kylie’s grandmother Millie, said, “I don’t think much of the new images really; I prefer Kylie.
“And Doctor Who isn’t really my cup of tea but it is nice to see her getting on well.”
Kylie spent some time filming in Swansea, where she was making the show with star David Tennant, shooting several scenes outside the Exchange Buildings in Adelaide Street last summer.
But, instead of the Marilyn look, that time she was dressed in stockings and knee-length high-heeled boots for her role as a maid on the doomed Titanic in the Christmas episode Voyage of the Damned, which featured a much-pictured kiss between her and the Doctor.
Mr Riddiford said, “We hear all about her progress from her mother Carol, who came back to see us in Maesteg several weeks ago.
“We met her in the old house, and we all had a family meal and spent the afternoon together.
“She told us Kylie was working hard and she is looking good and sounding great.
“It is a good few years since Kylie came to see us.
“But when Kylie is in Wales she also likes to go up to Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, where she has family too.”
Dennis Riddiford, also Kylie’s great-uncle, who lives near Port Talbot, fondly remembers the days when Kylie would visit and go for a walk in the local woods with him, grandmother Millie and the family.
He realises that Kylie travels a lot with her hectic celebrity lifestyle and he was pleased to have caught up with her in Australia a few years ago.
He said, “I travelled up to Manchester hoping to see her again in concert [in May 2005] and to see her sister Dannii too; they are so similar.
“But Kylie was taken ill on the day I went, shortly before she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and I couldn’t see her.
“The cancer was a horrible shock, I was terribly worried but, touch wood, she has got over it and is fighting fit again.”
Kylie received huge public sympathy after her breast cancer was diagnosed, and there was enormous interest in her plight as she underwent treatment.
She was operated on in an Australian hospital on May 21, 2005, before completing her course of chemotherapy in a private hospital in Paris.
She was eventually given the all-clear in January 2006, and in the past 12 months has returned to public life, while remaining a high-profile advocate for cancer screening and support groups
Mr Riddiford said he had kept up to date on Kylie’s progress through her traumatic time by keeping in regular contact with her mother.
“I’m partially blind so I don’t tend to get the newspapers and magazines,” he said.
“But I spoke to Kylie’s mother Carol the other day, who said she’s keeping fine.
“And I’m hoping to get a Christmas card off Kylie again this year, like I did last year.”
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