The Voice UK 2014: Twin Power, Kylie's Magic Bag And Girls' Night! (Watch FULL Episode 4!)

Enjoy the full show + Louder! :)

This week's lucky team members: Jessica, Sarah, Tila & Tavelah, Rachael, Jai, Gemyni, Melissa 

xo K

The Voice UK 2014: Adele's Cousin, The Chicken Man And Tom Jones' Angels (Watch FULL Episode 3!)

The Voice UK continued its ratings success for BBC One last night (January 25), once again topping Saturday's prime-time ratings with an average audience of 7.89 million (35.2%) tuned in to watch this weekend's show, which saw performances from Adele's cousin Georgia, and Vicky Jones - the sister of McFly's Danny Jones.

Enjoy the highlights (The VoiceLOUDER) and FULL episode 3! :)

New lucky team members! :)

Georgia, Iesher, Myles, Celestine, Laverne and Vicky:

xo K

The Voice UK 2014: Tom Jones & Will.i.am Alien Talk, Kylie The Calming Fairy & New Team Members! (Watch FULL Episode 2!)

(the review will be added later today, and for now, enjoy the FULL show and check out the highlights! ;)

This week's lucky team members: Sophie, Kelsey Beth, Jimmy, Jamie,  Jermaine, Mairead:

xo K

The Voice UK 2014: Kylie "Bum Press", Tom Jones Well Up And First Lucky Team Members! (Watch FULL Episode 1!)

"It does that thing that is the thing that we're waiting for..."

(thanks to the creator ;)

Ok, it's official: Kylie Minogue, Ricky Wilson, Sir Tom Jones and Will.i.am, Emma Willis and Marvin Humes is just THE line-up for The Voice UK!

The premiere of the season 3 on Saturday, January 11th gathered the audience average of 8.37 million viewers, a peak of 10.6 million and was up over 2 million viewers during last year's premiere, and became the most watched show of the day!

The BBC1 controller, Charlotte Moore commented in delight: "BBC1 continues its start to the year in excellent form with the return of The Voice peaking at a huge 10.6 million last night. As we hoped our new line-up is clearly connecting with audiences."

Beth, Lee, Christina, Sally, Anna, Leo are the lucky one to have made the teams. 

So far this is what we have:

#TeamKylie: Lee and Leo, or KyLee and KyLeo... or KyLeeLeo - you choose!

#TeamTom: Sally

#TeamWill: Anna

#TeamRicky: Beth and Christina

The coaches highlights that will stay in our memory forever:

The world saw the "famous bum press" last night, as Kylie was spinning around in her red chair on her way to get the second member of #TeamKylie, Leo

And Sir Tom Jones gets very emotional (not that we hadn't shed the tear too!) after the performance of the new-found #TeamTom's Sally (thanks BBC The Voice FB page for the caps of these!)

And while we are waiting for the next episode, you can enjoy the show again by watching the FULL episode (Thanks to our friends at ShineOnAndOn blog :)

or recap the highlights of last night's events and a little more ;)

And here's our favorite Episode 1 Review, by DigitalSpy :)

We hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did, and see you next week... and the week after... and the week after... and... until the end of the season! ;) Stay tuned for more pictures, highlights, videos and more!

xo K

The Voice UK: Kylie Minogue & Will.i.am On BBC's The One Show (Video)

Kylie & Will.i.am visited BBC studio and gave an interview about The Voice UK on The One show.
p.s. pay attention to the super performance at the end ;)



Another BBC video interview from the red carpet HERE.
Will and Kylie have given a couple more very interesting interviews, which you can find HERE.

The Voice UK premieres on Saturday, January 11th on BBC at 7p.m.

xo K

The Voice UK: Kylie Minogue: "All you can do is be yourself" (Interviews)

Other INTERESTING INTERVIEWS with Kylie:

Lisa McGarry for Unrealitytv.co.uk

Nick Carvell for GQ Magazine UK

The Pop Princess says the real her is about to be revealed on the BBC1 talent show after will.i.am convinced her to join him.

Marc Jefferies for Mirror.co.uk:

Pop princess Kylie Minogue is no stranger to Spinning Around, but 14 years after the release of that hit, the singer is doing it all over again.

This time, however, it is from the comfort of an executive chair rather than in tiny gold hotpants.

She is one of two new judges on talent show The Voice, which returns on Saturday, but getting the 5ft Aussie to actually hit her buzzer and spin her chair around in approval might be tougher than the wannabes would hope.

Chatting backstage at the BBC studios in Salford, Greater Manchester, Kylie admits she cannot make decisions, which, she points out, makes judging tricky.

She giggles: “I don’t like decisions at the best of times, this is constant decision-making, so it’s just having to go with that gut reaction.”

But, after years of singing and acting, Kylie thinks – or possibly fears – the real her is about to be revealed. She laughs: “I know I’m a dork, that much I know, but now everyone will be reminded. All you can do is be yourself.”

Kylie has never been one to let criticism stand in her way and she has shrugged off snobbishness about her Neighbours roots and cheesy pop career to become an honorary national treasure here. 

At 45 she is still a pin-up, and has rocketed to worldwide fame, with more than 70 million record sales around the globe, seven UK number ones and a string of awards.

But despite her wealth of experience, the decision over whether to take the judging role was tricky.

Kylie was close to signing up in 2012 when The Voice was first launched, but she wavered. There were ­allegedly rows about money, but she insists it was the prospect of showing her emotions in front of the camera that terrified her most and made her stall until now.

She says: “It mustn’t have been the right time because I literally lost sleep back then. I really felt a lot of pressure and I didn’t know what the right decision was.

“You know it’s a big opportunity. My record company were really keen for me to do it. But I went with what I felt and that was the right decision because this feels great, it really feels like it’s the right time.

"I watched the show, I was a fan. It’s a great platform. Something clicked in me.”

Kylie joins US star will.i.am, Tom Jones and surprise newbie, Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson, on the panel.

But she admits she still took some coaxing from will.i.am, who hijacked her meeting with executive producer Moira Ross in LA.

She says: “I had a meeting and Mr will.i.am bombed it. I just had one question really, after hearing about stats from the show and whatever. My question to Will was ‘how was the experience?’ I wanted to know, what does it feel like?

“He said he loved the experience, he learnt a lot about himself. So long story short, I thought OK, that’s cool. Yes, I haven’t had an experience like this before.”

The show will give viewers a new experience, too, as normally bubbly Kylie finally shows her emotions.

She is rarely seen without a smile – even during her tough 2005 battle with breast cancer. 

But during the new series’ pre-recorded Battle rounds, normally composed Kylie is seen with tears in her eyes – allowing fans to see a softer side to the star. 

Now bosses hope Kylie’s arrival will revamp the show.

The final last year pulled in 7.2 million viewers – but earlier episodes struggled to get more than five million. And will.i.am, 38, candidly admits that he would not have signed up for the third series without Kylie joining.

In a thinly veiled dig at ex-judge Jessie J, who quit along with The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue, Will suggests Kylie will raise the bar.

He says: “It was hard to decide if I was going to do season three. We knew how things worked, so to imagine it with two people gone it was like, ‘Oh, we really had a thing going’.

"To then gel with two new people in front of all the UK with people judging how they gel, that is very daunting.

“And then when they told me the people they were suggesting. I was like, ‘Kylie would be amazing’ and Ricky, ‘whoa, that’s different’.

“I was thinking about the singers – there are a bunch of singers that need to have perspective on how to become a pop icon, no matter if you’re a freakin’ vocal gymnast or you sing pop songs galore.

“Each one wants to possess what Kylie’s accomplished and no one on the panel last year could provide that to the singers. So I was thinking, ‘Wow, Kylie would actually be awesome because she’s the only person in contemporary music that has that experience’.

“So, I was like, ‘let me see if Kylie does it. If she says yes, then I’ll say yes’.”

 

(Kylie Minogue film a new video on January 4th for her new single, Into The Blue)

Judge Tom Jones, 73, warns winning does not mean instant success, after last year’s champ Andrea Begley and 2012’s Leanne Mitchell struggled to make a mark on the charts.

He says: “Even when you get a record contract, it doesn’t guarantee a hit. You know, it’s still another step. Until you actually get a hit record, then it becomes bigger. So it’s a step, we try to tell them that as well.

“Even when you win, you’re going to get a record contract, yes. But, you know, you’ve still got to wait.”

And despite her enormously successful career, Kylie has seen an element of that herself.

No matter what happens, one thing is for sure. Nothing stops our Kylie – not even the fact she needed special steps wheeled in to help her climb in to her judge’s chair.

• The Voice is launched on BBC1 on Saturday at 7pm

xo K

Kylie Minogue Walks Into The Blue - Video Shoot

"Falling deep, falling deep, falling into the blue..."
Into The Blue is the new track and the lead single from Kylie Minogue's forthcoming studio album, due to be released this year. Kylie was shooting the video on January 4th. The confirmation of filming came from miss Minogue herself on Twitter and Facebook, as well as was posted on her official website:

She tweeted: "Lovers We are working so hard. My team all need massages!!!! We are all going #intotheblue"

Here are a few paparazzi pictures from the video shoot:

 

 

(Source)

It is also expected to see some dancing in the new video - as revealed by ZooNation Dance Company via Twitter:

WATCH the official Lyrics Video HERE :)

OFFICIAL VIDEO:

xo K

Kylie Minogue To Release Her New Single, Into The Blue, In March!

Happy New Year and Happy #KM2014 or #K27 if you wish!

Miss Kylie Minogue did not make us wait any longer and presented the fans with some very exciting and long awaited information on New Year's Eve: Into The Blue is the new track and the lead single from her 12th studio album, 'Kiss Me Once', due to be released this year.



Into The Blue gets its first radio play on January 27th (confirmed by Miss Minogue ;) 

*UPDATE* (January 10th, 2014):
Parlophone issued a press release today regarding Kylie's first single and her new album.
Into The Blue is officially to be released on March 9th, 2014!
You can check out FULL Press Release HERE (Thanks to MuuMuse :)

From the words of a person who heard the song (thanks!):

"The song is classic Kylie sounding. Starts and end with a 90s housey piano and very lush melancholy strings. Not a dance song per say about 116-118 bpm, but remixes could be great. I would say in feeling it's a little bit "aprhodite" a little bit "no more rain" from X. The chorus is anthemic and she sings into the blu-uuuuu-uuuuuuu an a gorgeous high falsetto. The break down and end have some gorgeous falsetto ad libs. I think any long time K fan should be very happy as it fits into her catalogue beautifully!"

Miss Minogue was shooting the video on January 4th. Kylie and team were "working hard" ;) 

She tweeted: "Lovers We are working so hard. My team all need massages!!!! We are all going #intotheblue"

American songwriters, Kelly Sheehan, aka Madame Buttons, Jacob Kasher and Mike Del Rio are the ones who worked on the new track. On New Year's Eve Madame Bottons tweeted:

Describing the song in 5 words, Kelly said: "euphoric moving uplifting energetic electric"

Replying to Kylie fan's question: "Is the Kylie song epic?", she tweeted: "YES!"

Via Twitter Kelly (Madame Buttons) has also answered the question about working with Kylie: "she is one of the sweetest people I've ever met and she works harder than everyone <3"

Madame Buttons has also worked on other tracks from the new album (we are thankful for the updates!)

Popjustice posted an article, which Google-translates the interview Kylie did with one of the French newspapers. This is what Kylie herself has to say about her new single, Into The Blue:
"We have the first single. All the people who listened to it told me that it was undoubtedly a ‘Kylie song’. Let’s say it is a mix between that part avant-garde 'Slow’ had or, at least, really different from the pop then this classic side found in the ‘Love At First Sight’ and its modern, contemporary, ‘[Can't] Get You Out of My Head’. Yes, I think it is really a ‘Kylie song’ whatever the definition given to it. This song fits this range of mine. Because I am a performer, I do not like being locked into a single job."

In the meantime, Kylie is about to take over the TV screens along with Will.i.am,Tom Jones and Ricky Wilson on the new series of The Voice UK starting January 11th. 

xo K

WATCH: The Voice UK Is Coming Back On January 11th (Trailers & More!)

The New Year has come, The Voice UK elimination rounds are over and the show is back live on Saturday, January 11th, 2014 on BBC One at 7p.m. Set the reminders, because this is something you wouldn't want to miss!

Watch here:

Episode 1 (January 11th)

Episode 2 (January 19th)

The Coaches perform (FULL version ;)

Two totally amazing trailers with unexpected finales were presented before the beginning of the new season, you can enjoy them now here:

And here's an exclusive sneak peek of the first episode:

Meanwhile, miss Kylie Minogue is set to release her new studio album this year, with a new single, Into The Blue, confirmed on Twitter.

After The Voice UK, Kylie and Will.i.am are also going to join The Voice Australia.

Enjoy the shows!
xo K

Kylie Minogue And will.i.am Are Joining The Voice Australia!

The Voice Australia is going to a whole new level!

Two megastars are joining The Voice Australia's judging panel for the 2014 season: Channel 9 has confirmed that Kylie Minogue and will.i.am will be joining Ricky Martin and Joel Madden in Australia after The Voice UK next year!

Delta Goodrem will join Joel Madden for the first season of The Voice Kids, which will see the talents aged 8-14. Meanwhile, Seal is said to be taking a break to focus on his new album and spend time with his kids.
Darren McMullen will be returning to host the show.

will.i.am sounds excited for the gig: " It is an honor to join The Voice Australia as a coach working alongside Kylie Minogue, Ricky Martin and Joel Madden. Australia is a highly creative country and a place with many good memories that have shaped my music career."

Miss Minogue could not have been more excited to be working in her native Australia: "I am so excited to be coming home and being a coach on The Voice. I look forward to spending time in Australia, getting up close and personal with new talent and working alongside the three amazing artists: Ricky, Joel and will.i.am."
(Source)

Welcome to the new coaches and 2014 is going to be one exciting season for their fans! :)

xo K

Kylie Minogue Honored With GQ Gentlewoman Of The Year Award

Kylie Minogue was honored a "Gentlewoman Of The Year" award at GQ Awards in Berlin on November 7th, 2013.

Kylie Minogue, Götz George and Robin Thicke have won, as well as soccer star David Beckham and "Oh Boy" actor Tom Schilling, who were honored with "Man of the Year" awards in "Style" and "German films" categories respectively.

French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier has won in "Fashion" category, and British pop duo Pet Shop Boys were awarded in "Life's Music Work".

But two princesses stole the show: Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue was honored with a "Gentlewoman Of The Year " award and American singer Anastacia won the special award for her commitment in fight against breast cancer.

Congratulations to you all! :)

P.S. Check out Kylie in "Making of" GQ Germany Photoshoot (by Ellen Von Unwerth) - the magazine with Kylie's photoshoot will have three covers: David Backham, Robin Thicke and Pet Shop Boys and will be available on November 13th - don't miss! ;)

xo K

Watch: Kylie Minogue On Rihanna's Styled To Rock

Kylie Minogue appeared on Rihanna's "Styled To Rock" in her "little black dress" ;)

(screenshot credit: SayHey)

You can now enjoy the episode on Bravo TV 

(The video is now available WW thanks to our friends at ShineOnAndOn! :)

Here are --> 12 futuristic looks <-- the designers created for Kylie 

Let us know which ones you like! ;)

xo K

New Music: So WHAT Does The Fox Say?

As an English teacher for kids myself, I'm not sure exactly WHAT a fox says, to be honest!

Well, a comedy duo from Bergen (Norway), Ylvis gives quite many answer choices to this question in their What Does The Fox Say song/video that has already been viewed over one million (!!) times on YouTube, and been spoken about on some of the biggest US shows, from NBC's Today Show to The Ellen Show.

Check it out! ;)

p.s. you can now buy the single on iTunes ;)

Ellen rocks, you know!


xo K

Rihanna's Celebrity Friends To Be Styled To Rock This Fall On Bravo

Bravo has announced that a new fashion competition show Styled to Rock will premiere October 25 at 8 PM ET/PT. The show is executive produced by Rihanna and features 12 up-and-coming designers who will compete to become the next big thing in fashion. They will aim to create a new look to define the celebrity guest's image, and in turn battle it out in the sewing room. 

Riri's got some A-List company, too: she will be joined by producer Pharrell Williams, international model Erin Wasson and singer's stylist, Mel Ottenberg, as they mentor the contestants, PLUS, the celebrity guest list will feature: Kid Cudi, Miley Cyrus, Carly Rae Jepsen, Khloé Kardashian, Kylie Minogue (airs on Friday, November 1st, 2013 at 8PM), Kelly Osbourne, the Band Perry, Naya Rivera, Big Sean, Nervo and Ne-Yo.

There's a catch with the competition: only half of the contestants selected by the mentors will get to showcase their new design for the client and have a shot at winning. The other half will be placed up for elimination. But they have a big incentive to take it to the limits: one winner will score a grand prize of $100,000, a fashion feature in Glamour magazine, and the chance to become the next member of Rihanna's design team.
(Source)

Check out the trailer:

xo K