During her glamorous stint as an X Factor judge in the 2000s, Dannii Minogue seemed to be living a life of glamour. However, the reality behind closed doors was brutally different.Her four-year tenure on the show that almost destroyed her resulted in her fleeing back to Australia due to 'anxiety, depression, and stress'.Dannii, now 52 years old, entered the judging panel in 2007 alongside Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh, and Sharon Osbourne, who were fixtures of the show from the start.
Soon after, whispers about her supposed affair with the head judge started to spread, leading to questions being raised about her ability to do her job by plenty of stars from Graham Norton to Noel Gallagher.She made light of situations where she was often seen being "up close and personal with Simon" on a daily basis, which added more fuel to speculations, particularly when they were seen holding hands in a car post-Children In Need, the Mirror reports.
Reacting to all this, Dannii dismissed any flirtatious behaviour saying: "That man could flirt with a book, a wall, anything.
I don't fancy him and I don't have a type I go for but I like a man who makes me laugh, who's intelligent and speaks his mind." However, according to an interview for the unauthorised biography, Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell, the music mogul himself admitted to being enamoured by Minogue.
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