Resurfaced interview with Julian McMahon and Dannii Minogue reveals how crazy they were about each other before failed marriage - as she remains silent on his shock death

Daily Mail​

17-07-2025

A moving clip has resurfaced of Julian McMahon and Dannii Minogue in the wake of his death.
It was revealed in a statement released by his wife Kelly on July 2 that Julian had passed away after secretly battling cancer.
Now, a video has come to light showing Julian and his former wife of 18 month, Dannii, revealing just how crazy the couple were about each other during their relationship.
In the interview, filmed shortly after their engagement, the two could be seen in the back of a car looking loved up, with Julian kissing Dannii's hand and asking to marry her before cuddling up next to her on the backseat.
'I already said yes to that!' Dannii giggled as the pair cuddled and exchanged smitten looks.
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Julian and Dannii then shared what they love most about each other, and explained how 'sparks flew across the room' when they first met.
'You'll have me going for days... well, she's a wonderful person, she really is,' Julian gushed.
Dannii chimed in, while giggling and looking lovestruck: 'He is very fun to be with. And he's very romantic. Everything a girl would want.'
Elsewhere in the clip, sweet details behind Julian's proposal to the pop star were revealed.
'He went to ring my parents first and asked my dad,' Dannii confessed.
'For permission?' the interviewer could be heard asking, to which she replied: 'Yeah'.
In shock, the interviewer remarked: 'Gee that's old-fashioned.'
'I'm an old-fashioned guy,' Julian lovingly responded.
The couple also discussed their upcoming wedding, with Dannii revealing her sister Kylie Minogue 'screamed' in excitement when she learned of her sibling's engagement.
Dannii has not made an official statement following Julian's shock death last week.
The Australian actor died from lung metastasis as a result of head and neck metastatic cancer, per a Cremation Approval Summary Report from the Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office in Florida, obtained by People.
However, Dannii did give an insight into their whirlwind marriage just one month before Julian's passing.
Dannii originally met Julian in 1990 while co- starring as Emma Jackson and Ben Lucini on the set of Home and Away.
Three years later, Dannii (born Danielle) enlisted Julian to play her boyfriend in her music videos for This Is It and This Is the Way, before art imitated life and they tied the knot in 1994.
However, the union was short-lived, with the couple parting ways just a year and a half later.
Dannii never won over the approval of McMahon's late mother Lady Sonia, who didn't want her entering the political world dominated by his late father Sir Billy, the former Prime Minister of Australia.
'She thought that I was wanting to be part of that world [and] that I was going to take, take, take from them,' Dannii recalled on the How to Fail podcast on May 27.
'And it was the furthest thing from the truth and not what I wanted at all. So she made it very clear that I was not to be around and she didn't want me a part of anything. Yet Julian wanted me to be his wife.
'I knew that their [mother-son] relationship there was a lot had gone on and he loved and adored her, but they were not close in many ways. So it was a wild time.
'I mean, it was a lot to take on and that's how swept off my feet I was and thought that it could still work.'
The marriage began falling apart after The Residence actor moved to New York City to star in NBC soap opera Another World while Dannii flew back and forth from London.
In 1995, just a year after they married, the couple's divorce was finalised.