The forgotten Minogue sibling who lives life outside of the spotlight
Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment
Niamh Spence
Featured Image Credit: Don Arnold/Getty Images/@kylieminogue/Instagram
Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment
The Minogue family are arguably one of the most well known set of siblings out of Australia.
We've got Kylie with her glittering music career and her shiny hotpants as well as Dannii Minogue and her catalogue of hits and TV appearances on The X Factor, We can't forget both of them also doing their stint in Neighbours.
Yet it might come as a surprise to learn there is a third Minogue sibling, but that he prefers to stay out of the spotlight compared to his two sisters.
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Brendan Minogue is an Australian cameraman and has in fact worked with his sisters but from behind the lens, preferring to keep a lower profile than his siblings. In 2001 he filmed 'An Audience With Kylie Minogue' and is listed on IMDB as one of the crew behind the TV special.
Very little is known about Brendan as he keeps himself out of the limelight, but he is married to a wife called Rebecca and the pair have one child.
The mysterious third Minogue sibling is rarely seen or heard in the news but Kylie has previously referenced her brother on social media, and hinted at their close relationship.
In April 2020 she wrote on Instagram: "Hah! My brother just reminded me of this story today. I told him and my sister that I’d heard ‘thump, thump, thump’ in the night and even saw a flash of white. It MUST have been Easter Bunny!!!"
She has also spoken about the close bond she shares with her brother, revealing he was by her side when she was diagnosed with cancer in 2005.
In 2020, she told People about the moment she found out she had cancer. She explained: "It's like the earth had kind of slipped off its axis. You see everything differently. I remember having had my diagnosis, but the world didn't know.
"I was with my brother [Brendan Minogue] and my boyfriend at the time [actor Oliver Martinez] — we were all in a daze and went to a cafe.
"The server at the cafe was like, 'Hey, how are you today?' We just kind of robotically said, 'Good, thanks,' and in that moment I just thought: 'You really don't know what anyone is going through.'"
It isn't just Kylie that has spoken about elder brother Brendan either as Dannii Minogue has too, she shared a sweet flashback shot from childhood alongside Kylie and Brendan in 2017. The snap showed the three Minogue siblings playing on the beach, with the girls in swimsuits and Brendan in swimming shorts.
Sharing the nostalgic snap, she wrote: "Long hot Aussie summers. Happy New Year to you all after a cool New Year's Day in sunny #Australia."