Australian PM apologizes ‘unequivocally’ for Kylie Minogue shagging comments
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologized after being ripped for comments he made about pop star Kylie Minogue.
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Last week, Albanese appeared on the Bush Deep podcast and was asked by its host, comedian Nikki Osbourne, during the 20-minute interview who he would “shag, marry, date” between Minogue, Oscar winner Nicole Kidman, and theatre actress Rhonda Burchmore.
“I’ve just got married, I’m only six months in,” Albanese said before Osborne insisted he choose.
“Oh, Kylie, clearly,” he said.
“You’d marry Kylie and shag her and date her?” Osborne asked, to which the PM replied, “All of the above. She’s terrific.”
Questioned about sex life with new wife
Albanese was also asked if he and wife Jodie Haydon were still “bonking like rabbits.”
The Australian leader responded: “Well, you know, when we have time.”
He added of rugby team South Sydney Rabbitohs: “After the footy. After the footy. It’s always a good aphrodisiac, a Souths win.”
Albanese’s comments drew criticism, including from Shadow Communications Minister Sarah Henderson, who wrote in a post on X his comments were “disrespectful to women, embarrassing to Australians and demean the office of Prime Minister.”
Anthony Albanese’s whisky-fuelled comments on the ‘Deep Bush’ podcast are disrespectful to women, embarrassing to Australians and demean the office of Prime Minister.
— Senator Sarah Henderson (@SenSHenderson) July 5, 2026
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Community Strong MP Zali Steggall said the remarks were “entirely inappropriate,” adding that Albanese “needs to learn to push back, lead by example and call it out as sexist.”
Osborne’s podcast describes her as a “wildly inappropriate journalist” who asks “questions no one else would dare.”
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce suggested, per the Sydney Morning Herald , that the prime minister “has to be cleverer than that,” noting Albanese should have simply told Osborne: “No, no, we just can’t answer questions like that. And thank you very much, but no thanks.”
On Monday, Albanese issued a statement saying, “I apologize unequivocally for the comments.”
Not everyone took issue with comments
However, many fans didn’t think an apology was necessary.
“PM just played along here. Nothing wrong with this,” one person wrote on Instagram.
Another commented: “Are we even Australian anymore? C’mon take a joke,” and added an eye roll emoji.
A third commenter added: “It’s a fair question, and a legend for his answer.”
Labour Minister Tanya Plibersek defended Albanese’s record on gender equality, telling on Channel Seven she hadn’t heard the interview but “if what the prime minister is saying is he’s a fan of Kylie Minogue, I guess that puts him in a group with millions of other Australians, including me.”
She added, per the Guardian : “What I’d say on women’s equality in this country is no government’s been better for it, and no prime minister’s been better for it.”
Should Pamela Anderson be offended?
Also in the interview, Osbourne also asked Albanese about the worst gift he had ever received on an overseas jaunt.
He referred to a “strange” but ultimately “quite good” gift from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who brought him two melons.
“She just came in looking like Pamela Anderson?” Osborne asked as Albanese smiled and wiggled his hands in front of his chest.
Minogue has not publicly responded to the comments.