Dannii Minogue: People Unfollowed Me For Hosting Gay Dating Show

Dannii Minogue has a message for individuals who truly unfollowed her on social media for internet hosting the BBC’s I Kissed A Boy.

The groundbreaking collection – which is the UK’s first homosexual courting present – debuted on iPlayer earlier this month, and contains a group of homosexual males within the sear for love towards the backdrop of an Italian masseria.

Danni, who has lengthy been an LGBTQ+ ally, serves because the present’s presenter, overseeing the ‘Kiss Off’ and varied different challenges.

Showing on the Reign With Josh Smith podcast, Dannii spoke of how some individuals unfollowed her on social media for selling the present within the lead as much as its debut.

She stated: “I feel individuals have been scared to make a present like this. I get the sensation generally it’s like, ‘oh, effectively not everybody desires to see that’.”

“You realize what my reply is? You don’t have to look at.”

Dannii went on: “I received a bunch of messages after we had introduced that the present was beginning, and a bunch of individuals saying, ‘I’m now unfollowing you, that is simply an excessive amount of.’

“I’m considering all of the years of Mardi Gras and Pleasure and that is an excessive amount of for you?

“I feel that there’s one thing the place it’s okay if I’m in sequins and on stage singing. To have a TV present the place you’re gonna see two guys kissing and it’s not within the golf equipment, it’s not one thing hidden away actually does have an effect on some individuals.

“And once more, I revert to, they don’t have to look at it! In the event that they wanna unfollow me and say something like that, it is best to have unfollowed me a very long time in the past.”

Dannii has a protracted affiliation with the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, having been one of many first large pop stars to play London nightspot G-A-Y within the 90s, at a time when that was thought-about a dangerous factor to do within the music trade.

She additionally posed bare with a pink ribbon on World Aids Day in 2004 and sang at Pleasure in London in 1997, earlier than coming collectively along with her sister Kylie on stage at World Pleasure in Sydney earlier this yr.

Reign With Josh Smith is on the market on podcast platforms now, whereas two new episodes of I Kissed A Boy drop every Sunday on BBC iPlayer, additionally airing on Sunday and Monday at 9pm on BBC Three.