Kylie reveals hot pants dilemma

Kylie Minogue has revealed that she was initially reluctant to sport hot pants in her new video.

The Aussie pop singer famously donned a pair of gold hot pants in the promo clip for her 2000 chart-topper 'Spinning Around'.

However, she had to be persuaded by Joseph Kahn - the director of the video for her new single 'All The Lovers' - to revisit the iconic look.

"I was not expecting to be wearing that kind of outfit ever again," she told The Sunday Times. "In fact, the brief for the video, pardon the pun, was long flowing dresses. But when I got there the director said, 'I think of you and I think hot pants'.

"I was thinking, 'Everyone's gone to so much trouble to call in white flowing dresses', and I had to wrestle with my feelings about it, and I thought the long dresses wouldn't work for this video, so I'd go with it, but some paparazzi were outside and that's how those shots happened. But I survived."

Minogue, 42, also admitted that she is under no illusion as to why her choice of outfit has attracted so much attention.

"Now it gets written about because I'm in that age group. 'She's in her forties and she's still got it.' I'm in that age group where you're spoken about like that, and I'm like, 'Shut up, because at some point it won't be.'"

'All The Lovers' by Kylie Minogue is available to download now.