Dannii spills her style secret: control underwear!

Dannii spills her style secret: control underwear!
Dannii spills her style secret: control underwear! (Image credit: Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment)

Dannii Minogue has revealed the secret to her enviable toned behind is her Spanx control underwear. The X Factor judge, who is about to give birth to her first child, told Heat magazine: "My secret? Spanx! "I always wear them on the red carpet - they make my butt into the shape it would be if I was really good and went to the gym and had a personal trainer!" Dannii, who is dating ex-rugby league player Kris Smith, has been trying to adjust to wearing flat shoes rather than her favourite high heels. "At home I live in Uggs. I wore a pair of flats yesterday when I met my sister for lunch. She was like, 'What's going on? Wow, that's different!'" she said. "Apart from my flip-flops and my Ugg boots, I only own one pair of flat shoes - a little pair of Jimmy Choos."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.