Kylie Minogue has accidentally confirmed she is planning to tour in celebration of her 40th anniversary in music — letting the news slip in a candid new interview ahead of the premiere of her Netflix documentary.
Speaking to The Sunday Times‘ Style magazine, the 57-year-old pop icon was asked whether she had plans to mark the milestone with a tour. “I’m probably not meant to say this, but yes, I am,” she said. Minogue launched her pop career in 1987 — while still starring in Australian TV soap Neighbours — with a cover of “The Loco-Motion,” which became a No. 1 hit in Australia. The 40th anniversary tour would take place in 2027.
The interview comes days before the premiere of KYLIE, a three-part Netflix documentary series dropping May 20, directed by Emmy and BAFTA Award-winner Michael Harte — the team behind BECKHAM, WHAM! and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie — and produced by John Battsek’s Ventureland.
The series features insights from Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan, Nick Cave and Pete Waterman, drawing on personal archives, home movies and new interviews with Minogue herself. The documentary covers Minogue’s 2005 breast cancer diagnosis and the personal loss and public scrutiny she has faced across five decades in the spotlight.
Minogue said she felt “a knot of excitement and nerves” about the series dropping. “There was so much to get through. How the hell do you tell the story?” she said. “I’ve been asked by so many people to do a documentary in the past, but I’ve never done anything like this before. Will I live differently? Will people relate to me differently? Some people will never have heard of me.”
She also revealed the emotional toll of writing a new original song for the documentary’s closing sequence. “I worked so hard on it, it was like rolling a rock up a hill,” she said. “I spent so many solitary hours, working, working, working.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Minogue spoke about her current listening habits — namechecking rising Australian artist Sombr, Wolf Alice and Coldplay — and revealed her ambitions to return to acting. “I would love to do a musical, to act again, to be in the hands of a director who can get me there,” she said.
Minogue has sold over 80 million records worldwide across a career spanning five decades, with her debut album, ‘Kylie,’ being released in 1988, and peaking at No. 53 on the Billboard 200 the following year.
Her 2001 single “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” reaching No. 1 across Europe and becoming one of pop’s most enduring anthems. Her most recent studio album, Tension, produced the viral hit “Padam Padam” in 2023. KYLIE premieres on Netflix on May 20.
