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Kylie Minogue to star in dark comedy-drama on Sky Arts

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January 17, 2013 12:20 This is the singer's first TV acting role since the 2007 'Doctor Who' Christmas special Buy DVD and Blu-ray from Amazon UK minogue Kylie Minogue has taken her first TV acting job in over five years. Minogue will star in a dark comedy-drama called Hey Diddly Dee airing as part of Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents... series. Minogue's co-stars in the one-off film include Peter Serafinowicz, Homeland 's David Harewood and Mathew Horne from Gavin & Stacey . Hey Diddly Dee was written and directed by former Hustle star Marc Warren , who does not appear in the film. Minogue said in a statement: "When the script was sent to me, I read it and knew instinctively I wanted to be part of this project. In Hey Diddly Dee , Marc has created a beautiful and quirky story. I have also enjoyed many of the Playhouse Presents series and love that they have created a platform for this type of work." Earlier this month it was reported that Minogu

Kylie Minogue Lands Warhol TV Comedy Role

Kylie Minogue is starring in a TV comedy drama playing a character based on Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick. Minogue, who is said to be devoting more time to the acting side of her career, is appearing in an edition of Playhouse Presents on the Sky Arts channel. Comic Peter Serafinowicz will play artist Warhol in the programme Hey Diddly Dee, which is directed by Hustle actor Marc Warren. It revolves around a group of actors putting on a production about the US art guru, with Minogue playing a Sedgwick-style figure called Bibbi. It is due to be screened on March 14. Minogue, 44, said: "When the script was sent to me, I read it and knew instinctively I wanted to be part of this project. "In Hey Diddly Dee, Marc has created a beautiful and quirky story." The Australian has appeared in a number of movies including the recent Holy Motors, as well as taking TV roles such as a part in the Doctor Who Christmas special. Edie Sedgwick was an art student who joined Warhol at

Our Kylie is content with a devil she knows

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Aussie pop sensation Kylie Minogue. Source: Getty Images LONG before Jennifer Aniston came along there was our very own Kylie Minogue: an attractive, wealthy and hugely successful woman who, despite her many blessings, is invariably painted as being unlucky in love. In the latter's case it's a situation not helped by the title of a certain song. If you break into your most important market - in her case the UK - courtesy of a song named I Should Be So Lucky then it's a catchphrase destined to haunt you for the rest of your life. No amount of assurances from the 44-year-old that she is perfectly content with her life manages to assuage concerns she is destined to end up an old maid. And yes, people really do still use that label. But for those seemingly determined to agonise over her recurring singleton status, there's a pretty obvious theory as to why none of Minogue's relationships have survived the long haul. She goes out with absolute prats. From famed "l

Luxury, ancient craft go hand in glove in French town

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A woman works on making gloves on January 9, 2013, in Millau, at the Causse glove factory. (AFP PHOTO / PASCAL PAVANI) When Karl Lagerfeld wants a new pair of gloves, like Madonna and Kylie Minogue, he looks to a sleepy town in central France, the one-time capital of European glove-making kept alive by 21st-century high fashion. Chanel, Dior, Hermes, Louis Vuitton: the top names in world fashion go to Millau for their gloves, tapping into a manufacturing tradition that stretches back to the 12th century and peaked a hundred years ago. Worn long for elegance, fingerless by sportswomen, made of lambskin for suppleness, python or iguana for an exotic touch, in scented leather or covered in cockerel feathers for collectors, gloves have been making a comeback on the catwalks. "Our philosophy is to create gloves that are worn like jewellery," said Manuel Rubio, general manager of glove-maker Causse, acquired last September by Chanel as part of a strategy of buying up high craft sup

Kylie Minogue Lands Warhol TV Comedy Role

Kylie Minogue is starring in a TV comedy drama playing a character based on Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick. Minogue, who is said to be devoting more time to the acting side of her career, is appearing in an edition of Playhouse Presents on the Sky Arts channel. Comic Peter Serafinowicz will play artist Warhol in the programme Hey Diddly Dee, which is directed by Hustle actor Marc Warren. It revolves around a group of actors putting on a production about the US art guru, with Minogue playing a Sedgwick-style figure called Bibbi. It is due to be screened on March 14. Minogue, 44, said: "When the script was sent to me, I read it and knew instinctively I wanted to be part of this project. "In Hey Diddly Dee, Marc has created a beautiful and quirky story." The Australian has appeared in a number of movies including the recent Holy Motors, as well as taking TV roles such as a part in the Doctor Who Christmas special. Edie Sedgwick was an art student who joined Warhol at

Kylie Minogue to star in dark comedy-drama on Sky Arts

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January 17, 2013 12:20 This is the singer's first TV acting role since the 2007 'Doctor Who' Christmas special Buy DVD and Blu-ray from Amazon UK minogue Kylie Minogue has taken her first TV acting job in over five years. Minogue will star in a dark comedy-drama called Hey Diddly Dee airing as part of Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents... series. Minogue's co-stars in the one-off film include Peter Serafinowicz, Homeland 's David Harewood and Mathew Horne from Gavin & Stacey . Hey Diddly Dee was written and directed by former Hustle star Marc Warren , who does not appear in the film. Minogue said in a statement: "When the script was sent to me, I read it and knew instinctively I wanted to be part of this project. In Hey Diddly Dee , Marc has created a beautiful and quirky story. I have also enjoyed many of the Playhouse Presents series and love that they have created a platform for this type of work." Earlier this month it was reported that Minogu