Kylie Minogue looked every inch the pop superstar as she took to the stage for the first of four nights at London’s O2 for her Tension Tour on Tuesday. 

The singer, 57, ensured all eyes were on her as she entertained her legions of fans in a skinтιԍнт blue latex jumpsuit.

The Padam Padam hitmaker also wore a pair of matching gloves and added height o her frame with blue ankle boots. 

Letting her blonde locks fall loose down her shoulders, Kylie looked in her element as she entertained her UK fans.

Speaking to The Sun after the performance ended, the Australian star told how her Tension Tour almost didn’t happen.

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Kylie Minogue looked every inch the pop superstar as she took to the stage for the first of four nights at London’s 02 for her Tension Tour on Tuesday

The singer, 57, ensured all eyes were on her as she entertained her legions of fans in a skinтιԍнт blue latex jumpsuit

She said: ‘It’s been a lot of work and we almost didn’t get there, but it’s great.

Asked if she watches her performances back, Kylie added: ‘I don’t watch it on YouTube, but I do see it on socials and that way, sometimes with a phone, the angle is weird or the colours are off, but it gives you another perspective.’ 

On her love of performing, she said: ‘My love for doing this only grows and grows. Thank you for understanding and being there for me on my journey. For me, it began in a mystical time known as the Eighties.’ 

Kylie’s Tension Tour is split into five acts with the star kicking things off with her 2024 single Lights Camera Action before going into other hits like In Your Eyes, Get Outta My Way and Spinning Around.

Later in the show, Kylie performed some of her earlier hits including Better The Devil You Know and The Locomotion. 

The final act features some of her most-loved hits including Padam Padam, Can’t Get You Outta My Head and All The Lovers before an encore featuring Tension and Love At First Sight. 

The star is the highest-selling Australian female artist of all time and the third best-selling in the UK, but has only now begun to make a name for herself in the US following the success of her viral 2023 hit Padam Padam.

In the past, Kylie has claimed her failure to catch on Stateside didn’t phase her and she enjoyed her anonymity there.

The Padam Padam hitmaker also wore a pair of matching gloves and added height o her frame with blue ankle boots

Kylie let her blonde locks fall loose down her shoulders for the evening

After the performance ended, the Australian star told how her Tension Tour almost didn’t happen

However, her record label revealed in 2023 the singer now has her eyes firmly set on cracking the US market.

Tension Tour: The stats

69 shows

28 countries

5 continents

32 songs

6 outfit changes

4 live band members

3 backing singers

2 stages 

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Padam Padam and follow-up album Tension helped turn her fortunes around in America and landed her a Grammy, a second number one on the US Billboard’s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart and a Las Vegas residency.

Speaking about her lack of success in the US Kylie said in 2022 she had ‘resigned myself to the fact that America wouldn’t be like the rest of the world for me. 

‘I’m anonymous there — which, I must confess, I kind of like.’

As well as telling The Express in 2009: ‘It doesn’t frustrate me [not cracking America]… frustrating being asked about it, the assumption it’s something really missing in my career and life.’

‘My time is spent more throughout Europe… the U.S.A. has remained at arm’s length.’

While discussing her plans to crack America Jamie Nelson, SVP of U.K. Recordings at Minogue’s label BMG, confirmed to Variety in 2023 the label were ‘confident’ Padam Padam would do well.

‘It’s now flipping into an area that’s unprecedented,’ he said, crediting TikTok and social media for the song’s viral success. 

She said: ‘It’s been a lot of work and we almost didn’t get there, but it’s great’

Kylie’s Tension Tour is split into five acts with the star kicking things off with her 2024 single Lights Camera Action before going into other hits like In Your Eyes, Get Outta My Way and Spinning Around

Later in the show, Kylie performed some of her earlier hits including Better The Devil You Know and The Locomotion

The final act features some of her most-loved hits including Padam Padam, Can’t Get You Outta My Head and All The Lovers before an encore featuring Tension and Love At First Sight

Kylie’s New York honour comes after she was given a commemorative star recognising her phenomenal success entertaining crowds at Melbourne Park. 

The beloved pop princess first took to the stage at Rod Laver Arena (previously the National Tennis Centre) back in 1990. 

The star was unveiled in February by Melbourne Park CEO, John Harnden, and is located in the forecourt of Rod Laver Arena adjacent to the statue of the late Michael Gudinski.