Dannii Minogue and the Maternity Factor
So Danni's future on X Factor is looking wobbly, Denise Van Outen won't be looking for Dorothy and all is not well on Planet Pregnant Celebrity. Unless you're Coleen Rooney of course, who has 'pinged' back into shape a mere 3 months after having baby Kai, and is now frolicking in the surf somewhere hot and posh.
The big news today, (from someone with a calander) is that Dannii Minogue's birth is clashing with the X Factor auditions. We know, shocking isn't it. Not that she deliberately strove to conflict with the highlight of our favourite Saturday night guilty pleasure, but that it's even suggested that she would still be involved. What's she going to do - alternate put downs and panting in a Marc Jacobs sequined maxi (with an open back)?
Denise Van Outen is allegedly cross that she's been passed over for a panel job on the upcoming Andrew Lloyd Webber search-for-a-star-and-get-free-publicity-for-my-next-project show 'Over the Rainbow' on the BBC. But has she been dumped for the bump? Or is it another case of Strictly-gate? It's not like she's going to marry the winner again. Is it?
Happily, something tells us Dannii at least, couldn't give a 4 X for whether she's flanking Walsh, newly single Cheryl Cole and a (strangely unsettling) loved-up Cowell, or not. She's 38 and is probably just glad to be knocked up and at least have a chance of getting back to her career at some point after becoming a mother. But a word of warning to these new celeb mummy-to-be's - when you come up for air in about a year (or three's time) just be ready for the world to have moved on without you. Yes, you may be raising the next generation of tax-payers/doctors/pop-stars and presenters, but with the stretch marks and the gap in the cv, your days in the high-earning spotlight might well be over.
No of course it's not fair, it's flipping rubbish.
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