Kylie Minogue split: If only we could all be so lucky in love

Kylie Minogue is a national treasure. Of course we only want her to be happy, writes Shelley Seddon. But please, spare her the victimhood of perpetual spinsterdom.

Kylie Minogue with ex-fiance Joshua Sasse does not deserve our pity. (Pic: Dylan Robinson/News Corp Australia)

“Heartbroken Kylie Minogue unlucky in love again after dumping toyboy lover,” the headlines screamed. “She thought she found The One,” hollers another.

Please. Give us a break.

Yes, just days after announcing that she was going to take her fiance Joshua Sasse’s name after they got married, Kylie has abruptly ended her engagement to the British actor.

And yes, deep down we all have a soft spot for Kylie because underneath the gold hotpants is Charlene from Neighbours, with her bad perm and cheeky grin. She is a national treasure. Of course we only want her to be happy.

But do Kylie a favour, and spare her the victimhood of perpetual spinsterdom.

It’s easy to automatically put Kylie in the same victim category that Jennifer Aniston once occupied: Poor Jen. Unlucky in love. Poor Kylie. Another jerk. Never married. No children. Destined to be the old maid.

Wrong.

With INXS singer Michael Hutchence. (Pic: Supplied)

Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan on Neighbours. (Pic: Supplied)

What would you honestly prefer: to be married to Jason Donovan all these years — sitting through another bloody conversation about hair plugs while ferrying your kids through London traffic? Or to date a string of hot male models and actors into your late 40s?

Kylie is glorious in her power of choice. She refuses to settle. She will not be disrespected.

And she is far from unlucky. Since Donovan, she has been with Michael Hutchence, Lenny Kravitz, Stephane Sednaoui, James Gooding, Michael Di Nuzzo, Olivier Martinez, Andrés Velencoso and Sasse.

There will be more ‘toyboys’. But can we please, just please, step away from the ageist and sexist double-standard? Kylie is 48 and Joshua is 29. Big deal.

Mick Jagger is a 73-year-old great-grandfather who just had his eighth kid with a 29-year-old ballerina. And Mel Gibson just had his ninth child with a 26-year-old. Men do this all the time. Kylie likes hot younger men. Hello? I mean, who doesn’t? You go, gurl!

Unlike a lot of women (myself included) she also knows when to cut her losses.

She met Sasse in 2015 on the set of US TV show Galavant and after a whirlwind romance, announced their engagement in February 2016. As much as we all wanted a Scott and Charlene-style wedding for reals, the pair seemed a bit dodgy from the start.

The singer with Spanish model Andres Velencoso. (Pic: News Corp Australia)

Minogue with French actor Olivier Martinez. (Pic: Supplied)

The Sun reported that friends had doubts about their “tempestuous” relationship, with one saying: “After getting engaged she should have been on top of the world, but it’s never been smooth sailing.”

The couple politicised their engagement by announcing they would hold off on exchanging vows until same sex marriage was legalised in Australia (even though neither of them live Down Under and the plebiscite has been scattered to the wind).

They reportedly had a series of rows a few weeks ago and she confronted him about getting close to a co-star (so cliched).

If you want to cuddle up to a Spanish señorita on a movie set in Canada, Kylie will toss you out of her posh pad faster than you can say adios, muchacho.

Sasse is now reportedly back living with his parents on their farm in Herefordshire, England.

Kylie will not be played for a fool. A lot of women should take a page from her book. If it’s not working, move on.

Be like Kylie and continue to be free and fabulous and not settle. She’s not desperate for a man. She is not desperate to sperm-raid a spouse to make her a mother. She’s dodged a bullet. She should be breathing a sigh of relief.

I have no doubt that Kylie WILL be lucky in love. Again and again. And without having to take on the oppressive yoke of marriage.

This time she’s saved herself a messy divorce, a potentially hefty financial settlement and she doesn’t have to put up with that ungodly hipster beard of his anymore.

That’s a win-win.