Jason and Kylie to play it again

Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan in the early episodes of Neighbours - that set them to stardom. Source: AdelaideNow

IT'S the other royal celebration that is set to rock London, with Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan to reunite for a duet honouring the British record producers who made them both music stars.

Donovan will wrap filming on Ten's Priscilla-style star search series I Will Survive on July 4, then rush back for the Hit Factory Live concert in London's Hyde Park a week later, celebrating the careers of Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

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The Aussie pair will croon their chart-topping ballad Especially For You, which sold a million copies for the pop label - and put the two young actors on the world music map.

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The song was propelled up the British Christmas charts in 1988, timed with the broad! cast of the television wedding of their Neighbours characters Charlene Ramsay and Scott Robinson.

Donovan, 44, said it would be the first time the one-time lovebirds have performed the song since appearing on the iconic Brit music show Top Of The Pops.

"If I remember right, it was a great mime," he told The Daily Telegraph yesterday. "It is going to be a good moment and very exciting."

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Minogue told her fans: "I don't think we'll even need to sing it, I'm sure the audience all went through the Neighbours wedding. It's going to bring the house down!"

Also on the '80s retro bill will be Rick Astley, Bananarama, Steps, Pepsie and Shirlie, Dead Or Alive and 2 Unlimited.

Donovan, who sported a mullet during the decade fashion forgot, said he wasn't tempted to pull on a wig to re-create the look 23 years later.

"I think we'll probably take it a little more seriously," he grinned. "Both of us are a little older and wiser this time."

Donovan is in hot demand at the moment, joining the Andrew Lloyd Webber reality series Superstar, searching for talent to play Jesus in a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

A good-humoured Donovan said: "Most people take a lifetime to find Jesus, we've got six months."

He is expected to arrive in Port Augusta, South Australia, today - the latest stop on the TV Priscilla tour.