Kylie Minogue on being half Welsh and her roots in Maesteg

Minogue’s mother, Carol Jones, was 10 when she and her mother, Millie Jones, moved to Australia.

Speaking to Rylan on his BBC Radio 2 programme, Minogue, now 56, said she thinks it’s crazy the change her family would have experienced moving to Australia from Wales.

“I just think of my grandparents going from like the valleys of Wales to, first they moved to the North Queensland, where there’s mangos falling off trees and a snake in the letterbox,” she said.

“What a change.”

She also said she refers to her grandparents as “nain” and “taid”, the Welsh words for grandmother and grandfather.

In 1994, Millie Jones – Kylie’s grandmother who turns 104 this December – spoke to Heno S4C , externalduring a visit to Wales.

Talking in Welsh, she described how proud she was of her grandchildren – Kylie and Dannii, who is also a singer and actress.

“I’m really glad that they did so well and went so far,” she said.

Speaking about being in Gwynedd on holiday, she said: “It’s lovely to come back to Blaenau Ffestiniog to listen to the language.

“I don’t get much chance in Australia. No-one speaks Welsh.”