Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
a listener production. Hi, Natasha Belling with you and welcome to the afternoon edition of The Briefing. Coming up in our deep dive, the revealing new tell-all documentary about Kylie Minogue. For the first time, we hear about the pop princess being diagnosed with cancer for a second time.
Also, her heartbreaking battles to become a mum and why her family and her love of music have helped save her.
Chapter 2: What tragic event occurred on the Inca Trail?
We unpack Kylie's loves, losses and life lessons in just a moment. But first, let's check the afternoon headlines this Friday, the 22nd of May with Helen Smith.
An Australian tourist has died after falling while walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. Local police say 53-year-old Matthew Cameron Payton, who has been identified as a Victorian police officer, died on the trail whilst hiking with a tour group on Wednesday afternoon local time when he reportedly tripped and fell through a damaged security barrier.
Mr Payton had been travelling in the region with his wife before beginning the four-day trek. He was later reported missing before his body was found. Police believe the Victorian officer fell up to 400 metres with authorities now working to transport his body to the city of Cusco.
Australian fast food chain Guzman & Gomez is shutting down its US businesses after struggling to grow in America's competitive Mexican food market. The company told shareholders the performance of its US stores had not been strong enough to justify further investment, despite ambitions to become one of the world's biggest restaurant brands.
GYG currently operates eight stores in the Chicago area, with the closure expected to cost the company up to US$40 million in one-off expenses. Shares, though, in the company jumped just after the announcement. New Zealand's Finance Minister Nicola Willis has taken a cheeky swipe at Australia's latest budget changes, inviting unhappy investors to consider moving across the Tasman.
Speaking to Sky News, Willis pitched New Zealand as a pro-growth alternative. highlighting its simple tax system, no capital gains tax and business-friendly rules. She says Australians looking to start or grow a business could find an epic opportunity in New Zealand, pointing to lower red tape and easier tax settings.
The comments come after Australia's changes to capital gains tax, which from 2027 will see investors lose access to the long-standing discount on properties held for more than a year.
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And Stephen Colbert has opened his final episode of his late night show in a more relaxed mood than usual, leaning on his desk as he addressed the studio audience.
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Chapter 3: Why is Guzman y Gomez closing its US locations?
Like, everyone go away. And then she goes, and then three days go by. And she's like, where is everyone? She's like, please, everyone come back. So that's how she's feeling. And I think maybe when it was pitched to her, she kind of went, I'm at a great space in my career. I'm still doing what I love. I want to tell my story now and tell everyone the stories from my own perspective.
And I actually think that's much better than having all of these people people from your life coming in and giving their version of what happened.
Yeah, that's a really interesting point. And being able to control the narrative, as you said, for the moment in her life where she's got so much more to give, what were some of the most surprising revelations for you?
There's a lot. I found, so it's three episodes, and I found episode three to probably be the most emotional. She goes through in quite depth about her cancer diagnosis when she was in her 30s. And she talks about that. She talks about how she was
hounded by the paparazzi when she was trying to recover coming home to Australia ending up going to Paris and like she took her mum with her and she she is just very vulnerable she talks about how she needed her mum like she needed her and and then she talks about um you know Danny is obviously there and
And they have this beautiful story of like the healing power of music and how when she was trying to get well, they would play music. And little things like, you know, she gets really emotional when she talks about her IVF journey after she had cancer. She put her chemotherapy on hold because she did try. I think she says two or three times she did try to have children and it just wasn't for her.
And then, this is what I'm talking about, she goes into a song that she wrote that she's, you know, that was about this journey. And, like, so it's just all very, very emotional. But also, too, what's interesting is there are some players from her life and... most of them speak really positively about her, but some of them have a really unusual take on their time with her.
And I'm like, oh, okay, that feels a little... Like there's one person in particular, Mr. Jason Donovan, and people might hate me for saying this, but he comes across...
as a bit jaded and a bit jealous and a bit like, you know, I mean, I guess he is talking about an ex-girlfriend, but he can't help but sort of say some things about her that aren't particularly like, you know, it's not all, wow, she was amazing and I loved her and she's so great and I'm so happy.
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Chapter 4: What did New Zealand's Finance Minister say to attract Australian investors?
So one of the interesting revelations is Jason speaks very candidly about the first time Kylie, who they were together, right?
Yes.
Jason and Kylie.
And in secret for a while as well. Yeah.
And then went backstage to meet Kylie. the front man of In Excess, Michael Hutchence. Tell us about that.
You know what? The first thing was, I mean, I obviously, you know, remember Michael Hutchence and In Excess and the songs, but what's crazy is that I look at him in this footage. I've got quite a bit of footage of him and he just reminds me of like Harry Styles and all of the guys. Absolutely. I couldn't believe it.
I was kind of like, wow, this guy is the blueprint for those artists that are out these days. And there's just something about him. He's just got this magnetism. Yeah. And you can just see why Kylie was attracted to him.
Like, you know, he was a rocker bad boy and they show these personal private video messages that she used to send him and they went on a train ride and this couple was filming them. But yeah, there is this story that's told about them going to a party the first time they meet Michael. And it was quite funny because, you know, Jason kind of tells the story.
It's the pair of them in a beat-up Ford Fiat, and they're following his limo, and they're just like these two kids from Australia that are not even close to the stardom of what he is. And they get at this party... And Jason says he wanted nothing to do with me, didn't want to talk to me at all, but was besotted with Kylie. This is Michael.
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Chapter 5: What is revealed in Kylie Minogue's new Netflix documentary?
We'll be back in your feed tomorrow with The Weekend Briefing. And Sasha is joined by Lise Doucette, the BBC's chief international correspondent, to speak about her new book about the hotel in Kabul that's seen the Taliban rise, fall and rise again.
And even though some people would say, well, a luxury hotel, is that representative of Afghanistan? When it began, of course, it was a rarefied world, a world which is unrecognizable. Alongside current Afghanistan, there were bikinis by the swimming pool, cocktails by the roof, escargot in the finest restaurant in Afghanistan. Kabul. But all of Afghanistan was in this hotel.
People of different social classes, different ethnic groups and tribes, they all worked inside this hotel. And so many of them said to me during our very hours and hours of conversations that for them, the hotel became their second home.
And we'd love you to subscribe or follow us on Instagram at The Briefing Podcast. I'm Natasha Belling. See you next time.