Thursday 30 July 2009

Scrabblicious Kylie Minogue Is A Keen Scrabble Player


Kylie Minogue:

The are a number of reports documenting how Kylie Minogue and her sister Dannii Minogue are keen Scrabble players.

This recent 2009 article (here) reported:
Kylie Minogue's close friend, author Kathy Lette reveals: "We quite often have marathon Scrabble competitions. Kylie has the game down to a fine art - she knows how to score big and doesn't mess around. She pretty much always wins."
In 2002 popdirt.com (here) reported:
Kylie Minogue has revealed the secrets of high scoring at scrabble. “Utilize a poker face in necessary situations,” she told the Express. “Most importantly learn ridiculous yet usable two letter words to score big and help you place those high point ties.”
A 2003 report (here) from contactmusic.com describes how Kylie and Danni Minogue like to play Scrabble with Salman Rushdie:

Pop sisters KYLIE and DANNII MINOGUE enjoy nothing better than playing SCRABBLE with controversial author SALMAN RUSHDIE.

The Australian siblings discovered they share their passion for the board game with THE SATANIC VERSES writer, and the unlikely trio love to get together to play matches of the word-making game.

An insider says, "Salman loves playing with Kylie and Dannii. He says the competition is rough, but that he wins because he plays 'streetwise' Scrabble.

"Apparently, Kylie is demonic at it.


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