Why is Kylie Minogue so Un-Lucky in love?

AS AUSTRLIA’s queen of pop splits with her fiance, a look at the iconic popster’s relationships with some of the world’s most handsome men.

UNLIKE her hit song “I Should Be So Lucky”, popster Kylie Minogue seems to have had no luck in her love life.

The talented, attractive singer and actor has had a series of relationships, none of which have led to her purported aim of marriage with children.

The latest breakup, with British actor Joshua Sasse a year after the couple announced their engagement, underlines the puzzling bad run Minogue has endured for decades.

Kylie Ann Minogue, whose astonishing career began in 1978 at the age of just 11 years old, has a British OBE award and is recognised as the highest-selling Australian artist of all time.

Appearing in small roles in television shows, Kylie’s early career was eclipsed by sister Dannii who appeared on the weekly program Young Talent Time.

In 1986, Kylie first rose to national and then international fame as the character Charlene Mitchell in the soap opera Neighbours.

Pop princess Kylie Minogue and Joshua Sasse (above) planned to marry but now the Australian icon has split from the British actor after she found she couldn’t trust him. Picture: Dave Benett.

expectations of Kylie Minogue marrying have abounded since her TV wedding as Charlene on the soap Neighbours to actor Jason Donovan’s character Scott. Picture: Channel Ten.

Kylie Minogue and Michael Hutchence (above) who she later described as the love of her life dated for two years until he took up with supermodel Helena Christensen. Picture: Mick Hutson/Redferns.

Charlene famously married Jason Donovan’s character Scott in the 1987 wedding episode which attracted 20 million British and Australian viewers.

In real life, the pair became a couple, Donovan becoming Minogue’s first serious boyfriend.

Kylie went on to become became the first Australian television star to win four Logie awards in one year, and the youngest Gold Logie award winner.

The relationship was over by 1989 when Kylie surprised everyone by walking out with rock band “bad” man, Michael Hutchence.

Hutchence’s smouldering good looks and local rock star status made women magnetically attracted to him.

They began going out in 1989 and Minogue famously said — allegedly — of Hutchence, “Michael made me sexy”.

But two years later it was all over when Hutchence dropped Kylie while away overseas to take up with Danish supermodel Helena Christensen.

When Neighbours stars Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan became partners in real life it sent ratings of their show Neighbours through the roof. Picture: News Corp.

Kylie Minogue, snapped in a Sydney park with INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence, who died in a hotel room in 1997. Picture: News Corp.

Kylie’s video in a pair of 50c op shop gold hot pants earned her “rear of the Year’ and attracted many admirers.

US singer Lenny Kravitz lived with Kylie.

Minogue briefly date UK millionaire Tim Jeffries.

Kylie was clearly taken by surprise, afterwards citing Hutchence, who died aged 37 in a Sydney hotel room in 1997, as the love of her life.

“A guy with that much charisma, you don’t just forget about that person,” Minogue said in 2014. “I don’t know what it was like for other women in his life but my love for him remains.”

The petite and pretty Minogue, who at the age of 32 won the “Rear of the Year” award for the gold op shop hot pants she wore in video for her hit “Spinning Around”, was also a magnet for men.

In 1991, she briefly lived with US musician Lenny Kravitz and briefly dated other men before she entered a relationship with the man many expected her to marry.

French film director Stephane Sednaoui, made award-winning videos for Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers and U2 and marriage rumours chased the couple from 1996 to 1998, when they split.

Kylie Minogue and French photographer Stephane Sednaoui who enjoyed a two year relationship amid rumours of impending nuptials. Picture: News Corp.

Kylie Minogue and British model James Gooding (above in 2000) had a tempestuous relationship after which he said he cheated on the Aussie icon. Picture: AP.

Minogue moved on to British heir Tim Jeffries, who is most famous for the string of attractive ladies he has dated including Elle Macpherson, Claudia Schiffer and Prince Andrew’s ex-girlfriend, Koo Stark.

The same year, Kylie met British model James Gooding, with whom she entered a tempestuous three-year relationship.

When the relationship ended, Gooding raised the ire of all Kylie-loving Australians by revealing that he had cheated on out national icon with other women, including model Sophie Dahl.

What encouraged Gooding to infuriate Minogue with such caddish behaviour, apart from a hefty newspaper cheque, was the raunchy onstage dance she performed with Justin Timberlake at the Brit Awards.

Gooding would later say, according to another of his ex-girlfriends Sadie Frost (the former wife of Jude Law) that “that Kylie is the love of his life”.

But in 2003, Justin Timberlake was not Minogue’s new man.

Marriage rumours were again in the air after Minogue and French actor Olivier Martinez (above) met in 2003, but it was over by 2007. Picture: AP.

Kylie found love with Andres Velencoso (pictured together in New York in 2010) and the couple had a six year relationship. Picture: Larry Busacca/Getty.

Kylie was now 34 years old and her next relationship — with French actor Olivier Martinez after meeting him at the 2003 Grammy Awards — again stoked rumours of her impending marriage.

The pair dated for four years, during which Minogue endured treatment for breast cancer and praised the dedication of the “incredible” Martinez.

But it was all over in February 2007, and Minogue was not in a serious relationship again until she met another tall dark handsome man in the shape of Spanish model Andrés Velencoso.

Best known for appearing in ad campaigns for the fragrances Chanel Allure Homme, Sport fragrance and the Louis Vuitton J-Lo commercials, Velencoso dated Kylie for five years.

In 2013, “work pressures” including Minogue’s recording commitments in Los Angeles forced them apart.

In 2013, work pressures forced Minogue apart from the Spanish model Velencoso. Picture: Vittorio Zunino Celottoittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty.

In 2015, Kylie met then 27-year-old actor Joshua Sasse. When they became engaged in February last year, they said they wouldn’t marry until Australia legalised same sex marriage.

But this week it was all over between Sasse and the 48-year-old, with reports that Minogue was “inconsolable” but had removed her engagement ring over suspicions he had been unfaithful.

Sasse had reportedly been seeing Spanish actor Marta Milans.

Just a month ago, Dannii Minogue revealed to the Sunday Telegraph her older sister’s sadness at not having children and said the pop star had “always wanted kids”.

Dannii Minogue with Kylie on the 2015 X Factor final says her older sister was sad to not have children and was ‘instinctive’ with kids. Picture: Channel 7

Before it all began: Kylie and Dannii Minogue as children. Picture: Kylie/Instagram.

Dannii, who has a son Ethan with British model Kris Smith, said Kylie was a fantastic aunt to five-year-old and always “instinctively knew what to do” with kids”.

“Growing up it was Kylie who always wanted kids and I never did,” Dannii said. “When my brother Brendan had his little boy (Charles, now 10) I hadn’t a clue how to hold him. I remember being really impressed by Kylie because she just instinctively knew what to do.

“Kylie has been incredible with Ethan. She just loves him — I love to see them together.

“It’s a great sadness for her, it’s a great sadness for me and it’s also made me really understand how blessed I was to be a mother.

“Kylie wrote a song called Flower about how she feels about motherhood.

“It’s so beautiful it makes me cry. But you just don’t know what is going to happen in life.”

Originally published as Why is Kylie Minogue so Un-Lucky in love?