Kylie Minogue denies engagement to boyfriend Paul Solomons despite marriage rumours
KYLIE Minogue has denied she's engaged to boyfriend Paul Solomons, saying they are "happy as they are".
The denial comes despite his step-mum Gloria appearing to confirm they were getting hitched and saying she was "thrilled".
The princess of pop, 52, has been in a relationship with the 46-year-old British GQ creative director since 2018.
Happy rumours began to swirl around the pair when actress Billie Piper described Kylie's other half as her "fiancé" in a new interview with .
However, when asked to confirm the rumours, a rep for the singer denied the claims, telling The Sun: "It’s not true. They are happy as they are."
After Billie’s apparent accidental reveal, the contacted Paul's stepmother Gloria – who has been married to his dad for 34 years – said she was “thrilled” and “excited” the pair were planning to marry.
The admission came as The Secret Diary of a Call Girl star was recounting a story about when she collapsed aged 18 after "days of Diet Cokes and Marlboro Lights".
It turned out the man who took her to hospital was none other than Paul.
Opening up about the horrifying incident, Billie revealed how her party lifestyle worsened her eating disorder.
Billie wrote: "It was 2000 when I passed out in a Covent Garden club – 'foaming at the mouth', apparently, but I have no reason to believe that.
"My PR rang through to my hospital bed to fill in some blanks – I'd been carried out of the club by a man, apparently. A hero or a pest? I wondered. It's always hard to tell.
"(Later, I'd find out his name is Paul, like my dad. He's Welsh, works at GQ and will, in time, become a dear friend, a blinding success and Kylie Minogue's fiancé. Hero, not pest. Kylie knows.)
"My 'dramatic turn' – as I liked to call it – was a result of days of Diet Cokes and Marlboro Lights fuelling a very active eating disorder, cystitis that crept up my back and into my kidneys, a goblet of sweet white wine and a mind and body dissociation that I feared for the very first time.
"Following that sojourn in hospital, my mother dragged me to a local therapist.";
She went on to reveal the therapist asked if her eating disorder was linked to wanting to become a boy. Billie walked out and didn't return to therapy until 16 years later.
Despite a number of long-term relationships, Kylie has never married
She became engaged in 2016 to British actor Joshua Sasse, who was 28 at the time, but the relationship ended a year later.
Kylie started dating Paul in 2018 and fuelled rumours he was the one when she said: "I've met someone who I feel good with. It feels right."
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Since then it's been reported the pair are planning to wed in Melbourne - if coronavirus restrictions allow.
The couple have never confirmed their wedding plans.
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Talking about him on ITV's Lorraine, Kylie said: "He is so nice. He is probably not watching, I am sure he is at work.
"He is such a good support. We have a laugh. We have both been through enough in our lives and just met at the right time, so it's lovely."