Kylie Minogue says ‘not cool to be ageist’ after TikTok resurgence with Padam Padam hit
Kylie Minogue has said “it’s not cool to be ageist” anymore adding that people are “over” the stereotype.
The 55-year-old Australian icon went viral on TikTok with single Padam Padam from her upcoming album Tension.
The dance-pop track has captured the attention of many on the video-sharing platform, especially younger audiences who have recorded themselves dancing to the song.
The anthem, released in May, spent four weeks in the UK top 10 becoming her highest-charting single in the UK in more than a decade.
Minogue, who has had an illustrious 35-year career said she was pleased that people were abandoning labels following her viral success.
Speaking to Radio Times, the Grammy award-winning artist said: “What’s really interesting is that it’s the younger people saying, ‘We love the song’. The current thinking, which is amazing and a breath of fresh air, is that labels are dropping.
“You can like what you like, be what you want to be. That’s helpful for me right now.
“Another thing is, I’ve had people say to me, throughout the years, ‘You’ll always just be you’.”
The Spinning Around singer admitted there has always “been something to navigate” throughout her career, but she has not had to deal with ageism as much as other artists.
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Notably, Madonna, now 65, faced critics after this year’s Grammy Awards, labelling those who commented on her physical appearance as “ageist and misogynistic”.
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Meanwhile, Minogue has said people don’t “see [her] age” despite launching her music career from the age of 20.
“If there was any detrimental aspect to that it was, ‘You’re so young, what do you know, how can you be credible?’
“At different points in my career, whatever age I’ve been, there’s been something to navigate.
“I spoke about it on my album Golden, saying, ‘We’re not young, we’re not old, we’re golden, you can only be who you are at that point in time’.”
The singer will headline Leicester’s Radio 2 in the Park in a few days time.
She will then begin her three-month residency in Las Vegas from November.
Tension will be available from 22 September.
A woman who was charged with selling Friends star Matthew Parry the dose of the drug that killed him has agreed to plead guilty.
Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Ketamine Queen”, is the fifth and final defendant to strike a plea deal with prosecutors, avoiding a trial that was set to take place in September.
The 42-year-old agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the Ketamine that led to Perry’s death, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
She agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the Ketamine that led to Perry’s death, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
Prosecutors had cast Sangha, a dual US and UK national, as a prolific drug dealer known to her customers as the “Ketamine Queen”, often using the term in court documents and even including it in the official name of the case.
Actor Matthew Perry in 2015. File pic: Reuters
She agreed to plead guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Sangha will officially change her plea to guilty at an upcoming hearing, where sentencing will be scheduled, prosecutors said.
Dr. Mark Chavez, a physician from San Diego, who is charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s fatal overdose. Pic: AP
She is facing up to 45 years in prison.
Sangha and a doctor named Salvador Plasencia, who signed his own plea deal in June, had been the primary targets of the investigation.
Three other defendants – Mark Chavez, who it was claimed bought the drug from Sangha, Kenneth Iwamasa, and Erik Flemin – agreed to plead guilty last year in exchange for their cooperation, which included statements implicating Sangha and Plasencia.
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Prosecutors allege Chavez funnelled ketamine to Plasencia, securing some of the drug from a wholesale distributor through a fraudulent prescription.
In one instance, prosecutors allege that Plasencia “charged Perry $2,000 (£1,500) a vial that cost Dr Chavez approximately $12 (£9)”.
Perry died in his home in October 2023, aged 54, after getting ketamine from his regular doctor for treatment of depression, which is an increasingly common use for the surgical anaesthetic.
The actor was taking ketamine six to eight times a day before he died, according to court documents.
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An Ozzy Osbourne documentary has disappeared from the BBC’s schedule without explanation.
The film was billed by producers as “a moving and inspirational account” of the last chapter of the metal legend’s life.
It was meant to air at 9pm on Monday on BBC One – as well as be available on iPlayer – but an episode of Fake Or Fortune? has replaced it.
Sky News has contacted the BBC for comment on why the programme, called Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, has been pulled.
The project was filmed over three years as Ozzy and his family returned to the UK, and was initially conceived as a series entitled Home to Roost.
However, as the singer’s health got worse it morphed into a one-off.
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The BBC reported the show would reveal the “extraordinary rollercoaster” of the Osbournes’ lives as Ozzy tries “heroically” to get fit enough to perform again.
It’s said to feature “unique and intimate access” to the family, including Ozzy’s children, Jack and Kelly, who appeared in the reality series that made them household names in the early 2000s.
The Black Sabbath frontman, who had Parkinson’s disease, died last month – just a few weeks after his final all-star gig at Birmingham’s Villa Park.
Fans packed the city centre and chanted his name when his hearse passed through on 30 July.
His wife, Sharon, was in tears as she got out to see the mass of flowers left for him at “Sabbath Bridge”.
The New York Times said his death certificate gave the cause as cardiac arrest, but the family hasn’t commented.
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