Madly, Wildly, Passionately...in Love
by Kaydeebee Artist Py Ltd / Profile Press 1994

Newlywed Dannii Minogue has revealed her secret fear - the stalking of her husband Julian McMahon by an obsessed fan.
Julian, too, says he now has security wherever he goes to protect him from crazed admirers.
The two love struck Australians have made New York their home since Julian's role in the hit soapie Another World catapulted him to stardom in the US.
But fame and fortune come with a heavy price - and one female fan has been following Julian to promotions and public appearances all over the US. Even when he is in his adopted home town, come rain or shine, she waits for him daily outside the soapie's television studies.
"You try not to let it worry you too much, but of course you do (worry)," says Dannii in the first full interview the couple have given since their high society Melbourne wedding in January. "You take precautions and I know that when he's away working he has security, and he knows that when I'm working I have security as well," she says, as she perches on a sofa in the couple' s 43rd-floor luxury Manhattan apartment. "But you can only take so many precautions. There are moments when it does get scarier than others. It's a bit of a worry."
Dannii's newly acquired American accent steam rolls her Australian one for just a few words...
"I get the same thing...obsessed fans saying, "I'm going to kill myself if you go back to New York'. It's hard, but I think that they're gong to do what they're going to do. I think that what they want to do is just get inside your head. They want to think, 'She's thinking about me', or 'He's thinking about me, I've affected that person'. You can let them play with you in that way."
Julian is as candid about his own experiences. He says: "One woman lives her life through me, or my TV character. And she takes it very personally when I don't give her my time. The obsession has become sinister. It is beginning to intrude on my private life. I have security wherever I go. When I got married she got very angry. Another woman bombarded me with letters for months, writing personal stuff. She threatened to kill herself if I didn't see her. One morning I did a TV show, she came screaming down, grabbing onto me and wouldn't let go. Security had to pry her off me."
Ask the couple about their marriage and the mood lightens up dramatically. Every few seconds the looks of adoration fizz backwards and forwards between them. They act like honeymooners.
As they chat, they lightly caress each other's hands, gently tease each other and toy with their wedding rings: Julian's is a plain gold band and Dannii has a stunning, expensive burst of diamonds and sapphires.
"I'm more in love with Dannii since we married." Julian says, turning his gaze on a hurriedly blushing Dannii. "Marriage to me was a natural extension of what we felt for each other."
For the working class kid and the privileged son of an ex-prime minister, love means forever.
Says Dannii, the dark haired porcelain cheeked singer who is about to host her own pop quiz show Fan TC in Britain: "When I knew that we were going to get married, I looked at Julian and thought, 'I want to be with your for the rest of my life'. Bang...it hit me right between the eyes. Like our grandmothers used to tell us, you just know inside when you meet the right guy. I picture us growing old together, playing with our grand children."
One thing is for sure: when the pop princess and her heart-throb husband do decide to have kids their off springs will stand a very good chance of being beautiful. But if their families are hoping for the pitter patter of some future stars on the stairs, they will have to wait a bit longer. The couple do want to have children - but not just yet.
"Career wise, there are too many things happening," Dannii says. "I feel too young to have children. I want to enjoy things. We have so little time together it wouldn't be right to have a baby now. Maybe, once we establish a life together, in the same city..." Dannii adds of the almost 5000 km that separate them all too often, when she is working in England.
Dannii is very nervous at the thought of giving birth. It does not make me feel broody at all, not when you're changing dirty nappies and when they tell me about the actual birth. I'm, like 'Yuk! No way!" But I really do want kids in the future."
Julian, one of three children of the late Sir William McMahon and his wife, society doyenne Sonia, feels much the same. He says: "I believe in big families. I'm dying to have loads of children with Dannii. But I believe in being sensible about that kind of thing for everyone's sake. We're young. We have a lot of time. It's not like have to rush out and procreate at the first opportunity."
Dannii walks to the kitchen to make another glass of iced coffee in frosted glasses picked up during a trip to Miami's famed Fontainbleu Hotel. Their two bedroom, two bathroom apartment is furnished simply and the views reach out across the New York skyline to the Hudson and East rivers, to the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Centre.
A relaxed and open couple, Julian and Dannii become guarded on the much speculated strained relationship with his mother.
When the couple married, their were rumors Lady McMahon felt Julian had married well beneath him on the social ladder and was horrified to have a working class songstress as a daughter in law.
Lady McMahon arrived late at the January 2 wedding and then refused to pose for photos that were to be released to the media. Both actions were seen as deliberately snubs to Dannii and her family. Asked if his mother is as warm to Dannii as she could be, Julian says: "I dunno. They hardly get any time to see each other."
Diplomatically, Dannii says: "I don't feel I know her that well. She's been polite to me every time we've met. I would like the opportunity to know her better. I'm very close to my family. It would be nice to be close to her."
Julian - despite his silver tail upbringing - and Dannii hate snobbery. "I might find more in common with a surfer than an upper class person who values everyone by their wealth and social standing," he says.
Dannii adds: "Before I met Sonia, I'd met Princess Di and the Queen Mother at a gala performance. They don't scare me. I don't feel out of place or intimidated. I grew up in the public eye. If you don't put up any social barriers yourself, you don't limit yourself in any way."
"I hope my mum is proud of what I've accomplished," Julian says. "Initially, she wasn't happy about me becoming an actor. I was the sort of prodigal son. I was captain of school, captain of cadets, captain or rowing, I did well in my studies. I go to college, then I suddenly bail out."
The easygoing couple have a regular private life -- if not an everyday kind of marriage.
"I mean, what is an everyday marriage anyway?" says Julian. "I consider ours very special."
They have a joint bank account and admit to being big spenders.
"Who pays when we got out for dinner? I pay. I pay for everything," Julian says. "Ooh, she's looking at me with the big frown on her face! No, she just said it's not true and it's not true! It's whoever has the credit card."
"He likes to think he pays (for everything)," chips in Dannii, who admits they're "not badly off".
"We spend on clothes, CDs and holidays," she says. "We like to check out new places and go to the countryside or fly to Miami or LA. All of it eats into the account."
But a wild life is out. "People think I'm living high with loads of money, limousines and guys chasing after me," Dannii says. "I don't live that life. I have to be up at 4 am looking perky for the breakfast show. I have to take my work seriously. If I didn't there are a million girls who'd love to take my place."
Julian, too, says he is up early at 5 am, and on the soapie set until late at night five days a week.
The rewards, of course, are when they are back together again.
Dannii leans over and gives her husband a gentle kiss before adding softly: "He's a warm, very loving, generous man."