Dannii Minogue: “Resilience is a muscle!” Surviving The X Factor, divorce, and Kylie’s cancer
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Does going through a rough time make you untrusting of fleeting joyful moments, or make you lean into them harder? For Dannii Minogue it’s the latter.
In this chat with Fearne, Dannii explains why getting divorced and having to borrow money from family, coping with sister Kylie’s cancer, and having her body critiqued by the press have taught her to appreciate happiness when it comes.
Fearne and Dannii worked together on The X Factor for a bit, and they both discuss what it was like to work on such a juggernaut programme, and chat about how to understand what boundaries you might need to set in your career. They also talk about why Dannii’s so passionate about wrapping queer and non-conforming people in so much love and joyful celebration.
Plus, a little PSA from Dannii: try not to get bitten by a poisonous spider, it won’t end well...!
Dannii’s back as the host of I Kissed A Boy on BBC Three in May.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and a massive welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. |
| 0:05.1 | This is the show that embraces the light and dark as it comes. |
| 0:09.1 | And today I'm chatting to Danny Minogue. |
| 0:11.7 | Photographers were literally throwing themselves on the ground to get angles and shoot up your dress and your skirt. |
| 0:19.1 | I was then, compared to my sister who's completely |
| 0:21.5 | different body shape always has been our entire lives, yet I wasn't living up to her body, |
| 0:28.0 | which at the time fitted the standards of the only body shape there was slim. I had to keep reminding |
| 0:34.3 | myself if I wasn't reading this or hearing it, do I get up in the morning and am I happy with myself? I am. |
| 0:43.4 | I hope you're all doing well, my lovelies. I hope you had a nice Easter. I hope parents out there, carers, you survived the Easter holidays. Why are they so long? It's my first question. |
| 0:52.2 | We did all the things and obviously like most parents run out of things to do. |
| 0:57.7 | My new thing, which I'm really into, I've done two now, is escape rooms. |
| 1:03.0 | I didn't think they were going to be for me, but my friend LaVashne has got me onto escape rooms. |
| 1:07.8 | And the first time I walked into an escape room, the first one we did was an Egyptian one. |
| 1:11.6 | And I walked in and I was like, I don't get it. There's literally nothing in this room. |
| 1:15.9 | And you're telling me I have to get out of it. And I was slightly panicked. |
| 1:19.6 | After great success, I found the last clue, by the way. You had to find a meteor and I found it. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm hooked. So we also did another one the other day in Easter holidays and again nailed it. |
| 1:31.0 | Guys, it's my new thing. I am loving it. Maybe I could do a podcast in an escape room. Maybe I've taken it too far. |
| 1:38.4 | Should we talk about Danny Minogue? Danny is of course an icon. I think we first met back on a kids TV show might have been the |
| 1:47.0 | Saturday show, which was a TV show I hosted back in the day. And I mean, I've interviewed |
| 1:53.2 | her countless times and also we worked together on X Factor. I was doing Extra Factor. She was |
| 1:58.0 | obviously a judge. And I've always had the most lovely encounters with Danny. |
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