Kylie Minogue has revealed she will be spending Christmas this year with her family in Melbourne – but she won’t be the one cooking the turkey.
In an interview with a UK newspaper, the Australian pop star fessed up that her role is less head chef and more sous chef, “available for anything that needs doing”.
“I’ve never cooked a turkey, though I have roasted other things. But, ha, I’m not a natural. It’s not my natural habitat, no,” she told The Standard newspaper.
She went on to explain that sister Dannii Minogue and brother Brendan were “very… present in the kitchen”.
“But everyone’s families are like that, aren’t they? You know your place, don’t rock the system, don’t rock the boat.
“We all just want to get through Christmas!
“And then I think we’re secretly all – or not even so secretly – just excited about Boxing Day. That’s when the relief kicks in. I mean we can literally string a leftover ham out for God knows how many days.”
The 57-year-old pop star’s new festive album, Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped), is due out in December, and marks 10 years since the release of the Kylie Christmas record.
“I just had to record some new songs to celebrate,” she said in a social media post this month.
“Four of them in fact… so many fun variants out there for you, all out 5th Dec”.
Minogue told The Standard that working on a Christmas album was a good escape.
“It’s a challenge. It’s a puzzle. You’ve got your own puzzle to solve and it’s something you have a chance of achieving, compared with the world.
“Because the bigger problems and the bigger questions are overwhelming – for everyone.”
Minogue spoke to the newspaper from Morocco, which she said she was visiting with her nephew in between engagements in London.
One of those engagements was leading the countdown and turning on the Christmas lights at the iconic Battersea Power Station, where she will also have a pop-up shop.
The singer found it an emotional experience taking a ride up the lift of the station, which she used to be able to see from her former home in London’s Chelsea.
“Looking over the city and getting that view of London, I thought wow, I spent so much time here. And there’s the Royal Albert Hall, and there’s the London Eye. It was all just kind of there, twinkling — yeah that was a real highlight for me.”
–with Bang
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