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KYLIE MINOGUE can’t get Glastonbury out of her head. In 2005 she was due to headline the festival but had to pull out after her breast cancer diagnosis.

But 14 years later her time has come at last. The Aussie pop princess will perform the gig of her 31-year career in the Sunday afternoon legends slot on June 30.

Kylie is thinking about bringing back 'THOSE' gold hotpants for Glastonbury

And the ideas are pouring in thick and fast — the setlist, the special guests, the outfits . . .

Then I mention her world-famous Spinning Around golden hotpants.

There is a pause, then a smile. Surely those iconic, skin-tight shorts which made pop culture history 19 years ago will be making a comeback for the 100,000-strong crowd expected at the Pyramid Stage?

She giggles and says: “I hadn’t thought about that. Gosh, I don’t know. You’ve really planted a seed that I had not considered.

Kylie was due to headline Glastonbury Festival in 2005, but had to pull out after her breast cancer diagnosisCredit: Getty - Contributor

“I don’t think they would have the same impact as they did in 2000.”

Kylie, they could make even MORE of an impact this time, I tell her.

“Well let’s try and get lots of people wearing them. That would be amazing,” she says.

“And the sun’s meant to come out, so they’ll be gleaming.”

Hotpants or not — on the crowd or on 50-year-old Kylie — the one thing she is certain about is the man who will be by her side, cheering her on at the festival.

The Sun first revealed she was dating a Brit, Paul Solomons, last April and it’s clear he is now her rock.

‘CHALLENGING YEAR’

Kylie with Paul Solomons, the 45-year-old creative director at GQ magazine, who helped her through an exceptionally tough 2018Credit: Getty - Contributor

She was heartbroken in January 2017 after she broke off her year-long engagement to British actor Joshua Sasse, 31, who she later admitted was never right for her.

But after a year with 45-year-old Paul, creative director at GQ magazine, everything has changed.

Kylie’s voice cracks with emotion as she opens up about their strong bond, her new man helping her through an exceptionally tough 2018.

When I ask if he will be there to support her at Glastonbury, she says: “Absolutely. And the fact that he was with me throughout all of last year . . . I’m so glad he had a great time and everyone had a great time.

“But it was a challenging year. It was really busy. Physically it was quite hard on me.

I don’t think they would have the same impact as they did in 2000
Kylie on her gold hot pants

“So to have him a) celebrate all of those things and b) support me and just to anchor me when everything else feels like the biggest mountain to climb, has been unbelievable.

“I’m so, so thankful and I don’t know how many people are at Glastonbury, how many faces I’ll be seeing, but the one I can promise you I’ll be looking for is his, every now and then, just to share that with him.

“It’s been a long time coming and I’m so grateful.”

On June 28, two days before her Glastonbury performance, Kylie will release a greatest hits album, Step Back In Time, featuring 41 of her biggest tunes.

Kylie will be playing the Pyramid Stage in front of an expected 100,000 festival-goers at GlastonburyCredit: Getty - Contributor

She says: “It felt like the right time to celebrate. And I’m looking at the tracklist now.

“There’s so much behind each and every one of the songs. It’s been pretty overwhelming, putting this together.

“I say to people it’s like if you’re moving house and you start going through boxes. It’s like how a box of photos or books or whatever to someone else is just a shoe box of stuff, but for you there’s so much attached to that — memories and nostalgia, good and bad. All of it’s in there.

“Was it emotional? Yeah, it was, definitely. But a lot of emotions. There’s pride, there’s some embarrassment, there is absolute disbelief at what I’m looking at, going, ‘I just would not have seen this coming at 19 years old, releasing my first single.’”

Embarrassed? By any of those huge hits? She quickly backtracks.

Kylie cringes at some of her styles when she was launching her pop career as a fresh-faced singer who had shot to fame as Charlene in NeighboursCredit: Rex Features

Instead of naming any of those early numbers, she confesses she cringes at some of her styles when she was launching her pop career as a fresh-faced singer who had shot to fame as Charlene Robinson in TV soap Neighbours.

She laughs and says: “Oh God, do I really mean embarrassed? The songs I’m looking at on here are pretty good, actually.

“I guess it’s just the development. Early in my career I really didn’t know what I was doing. I know I’m always learning.

“There’s always something else to learn. You’re thrown into a situation where you’ve just got to make it work.

“But hearing your voice at 19 is very different to hearing your voice now. I mean, Eighties fashion, big earrings, big hats and big hair.”

‘VERY EMOTIONAL’

On June 28, two days before her Glastonbury show, Kylie will release a greatest hits album, Step Back In Time, featuring 41 of her biggest tunes

It’s perfect timing though. The Eighties are back.

She says: “I know, I’m right on time! Is the perm having a comeback, did I read that? Amazing.”

Kylie proved she is still a musical force to be reckoned with when she released her 14th studio album, Golden, last April — and it went straight to No1.

And she is building on that by adding a new track to her greatest hits collection — New York City, which fans heard a rough version of on her tour last year.

She says: “It was done as a demo for the Golden album and it just didn’t fit. It was very electro.

“The fans loved it and they were asking, ‘When can we get the finished song?’”

It’s also likely to be on the setlist for her Glastonbury gig — which The Sun first revealed last September and which currently seems to be Kylie’s main preoccupation.

With a greatest hits album on the way, 31 years in music under her belt and a crowning Glastonbury slot, it feels like the triumphant culmination of three decades of incredible highs and lows for KylieCredit: Instagram

She says: “In a part of my brain it’s all I think about. It’s such a big deal for me, that will be very emotional.

“I can’t really put it into words yet what I think it’s going to be like, aside from the fact that I hope it’s just a massive singalong and we can all travel together down memory lane.

“I guess the difficulty is choosing which songs to put in when I’ve got 75 minutes. I might have to do a little megamix at some point.”

With a greatest hits album on the way, 31 years in music under her belt and a crowning Glastonbury slot, it feels like the triumphant culmination of three decades of incredible highs and lows for Kylie.

She says: “I feel like it will really mark a point in time, and then I imagine I would look forward to having a clean slate and, as and when I get back in the studio, just getting back to business.

“I would look forward to doing a pop-disco album. That’s where I think I would head.”

It seems there’s plenty more years of spinning around to do yet.