Kylie Minogue honours late ex-boyfriend Michael Hutchence with birthday tribute
Kylie Minogue shared a heartfelt tribute to her late ex-boyfriend, Michael Hutchence, who would have turned 66 on his birthday.
Australia’s pop princess took to Instagram on Thursday to share a grainy photograph of the pair hugging inside a house when they were a couple in the early 1990s.
“Selfie mode,” the 57-year-old superstar captioned the tribute.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.Friends and fans flooded the comments section with birthday messages for the INXS rocker who tragically took his own life at the age of 37 on November 22, 1997.
Comedian Celeste Barber wrote: “Thank you for this. ❤️.”
One fan wrote: “Happy birthday, Michael and what a sweet way to celebrate him.”
“Wow. You were so gorgeous together,” another fan wrote.
A third fan added: “Happy birthday Michael. 💙 “Cause we all have wings. But some of us don’t know why.”
“I tell my daughter that he was my Harry Styles,” another Instagram user wrote.
Another wrote: “Beautiful. Happy birthday Michael.”
Minogue and Hutchence went public with their relationship in 1989 at the premiere of The Delinquents in which Minogue starred as rebellious blonde Lola Lovell.
In 2020, the Padam Padam singer revealed that the character served as Hutchence’s inspiration for his hit song “Suicide Blonde.”
“Suicide Blonde came from me talking about my character in The Delinquents; we met just after that,” she told News Corp.
“My hairdresser called the (colour of the) wig I had to wear ‘suicide blonde’.”
In the documentary Mystify: Michael Hutchence, released in 2019, Kylie spoke about her relationship with the Never Tear Us Apart singer.
“I felt protected. He had insatiable curiosity, all the good things in life and some of the bad,” she said.
“He opened up a whole new world for me. A lot of it was based around pleasure, let’s face it.”
Ultimately, he ended up breaking her heart and Kylie was left unsure about why they split.
“It felt loving, yet sad and probably doomed. We talked through things and I couldn’t give you an actual reason (as to why it happened),” she said.
“I left pretty confounded and destroyed, and I knew that was... that was it. Yeah, he broke my heart. I have to confess, the hurt stays for quite a long time.”
Following his relationship with Minogue, the troubled rock star dated supermodel Helena Christensen in 1991.
He then began a tumultuous relationship with Paula Yates, with whom he welcomed his only child, daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof, now 24.
Hutchence was with Yates until his death.
