On Tuesday we got our first look at Kylie Minogue on the cover of the new issue of British Elle magazine and today we learn from her coverstory interview that Ms. Minogue has strange yet strong dislike for clothes hangers … so much so that she refuses to use them at all. Doesn’t this sound a lot like someone else in pop culture that we know?

Kylie Minogue as a bizarre phobia – the pop superstar is terrified of clothes hangers. The style icon admits she is terrified of the sight and sound of hangers, and has even designed a special type of closet to display her designer outfits. She tells Britain’s Elle magazine, “The problem is I hate putting things on hangers. I have a hanger phobia – I don’t like the way they sound when you put them in the wardrobe. [My wardrobe is] a room in my home where everything is laid out. It never looks like other people’s wardrobes. I’ve got far too many shoes, but they’re so pretty I don’t like to hide them away.” Also in the interview, Minogue revealed one of her biggest fashion regrets. “The occasions when I listen to others and not myself,” she said. “But that can apply to numerous aspects in my life, not just fashion. Sometimes I’ll be wearing something I feel really uncomfortable in, and I’m sure it looks awful and you’re all liars… and then I see what the photographers were seeing and it looks brilliant.

LOL!! Of all the celebs in the world, I imagine that Kylie Minogue is the most unlike Joan Crawford (a.k.a. Mommie Dearest) and, yet, by her own admission she appears to be the one celeb most like her. Sure, I doubt Kylie would beat her child with a wire hanger for using wire hangers on on her clothes but still … with this new information, I guess we cannot be so sure. HMMM.

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Another Cinco de Mayo has come and gone and as I’m sure some of you are nursing hangovers from your margarita-filled celebrations yesterday, so too are the castmembers of MTV‘s hit reality TV show Jersey Shore. As you may know, the second season of Jersey Shore is currently filming new episodes in Miami Beach, FL and a couple of castmembers were spotted at a local drinking establishment yesterday doing their best to celebrate the spirit of Cinco de Mayo:

Yes, folks, Nicole Snooki Polizzi and Jenni Jwoww Farley were drinking up a storm yesterday like nobodies business … and I would be willing to wager that they didn’t even realize it was Cinco de Mayo. Considering what big booze hounds these ladies (and I do use the term loosely) seem to be, they were prolly drinkin’ their faces off because it was just Wednesday! In any event, it looks like the JS ladies enjoyed their Cinco very much … did you?

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Yesterday we learned that amazingly good news that Poison frontman and reality TV star Bret Michaels has been released from the hospital just days after he was near death in ICU with a brain hemorrhage. Today, we learn that Bret is recovering well from his affliction and is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of People magazine. Here is his coverphoto and some excepts from his coverstory interview:

Bret Michaels may have just spent 10 days in the ICU, but the rock star isn’t complaining. Instead, he says he’s feeling “lucky to be alive.” In the new issue of PEOPLE, Michaels, 47, who suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding at the base of his brain stem) on April 21, speaks for the first time about his ordeal, including a dramatic moment when he first arrived at the hospital. In the emergency room, the rocker – dad to Raine, 9, and Jorja, 5 – recalls being asked by a doctor if he had kids, and the doctor telling him to have them brought to the hospital. “And I said in these exact words, ‘Am I dying? If I’m dying, I want to see my kids, but if I have a chance, I don’t want them to see me in this condition.’ ” Michaels is currently at a rehabilitation facility for physical therapy, and is expected to make a full recovery – something his doctor says only occurs in 10 to 20 percent of all cases.

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m of the mind that Bret‘s recovery is nothing short of a miracle. I am a firm believer in positive thinking and I contend that all the well wishes, good thoughts and healing prayers sent out to Bret while he was suffering in the hospital had something to do with his recovery. I cannot, for the life of me, imagine what it must be like to prepare for death as Bret surely did when he was at his worst but I am so thankful that he is well and on the road to recovery. He has a new lease on life, I hope he is able to enjoy it for many, many years to come. This issue of People is a must own for me, I’m really anxious to hear from him how well he’s doing.

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