Dannii Minogue has claimed that she posed for Playboy in 1995, so that she culd clear her mounting debts.

During an interview with Piers Morgan, the X Factor judge admitted that she owed £150,000 and couldn’t afford to pay her rent.

She is quoted as saying: “My parents didn’t want me to do it. My dad was saying, ‘Doing this is forever – you can never, ever change it’. Kylie knew why I was doing it – I could have asked her for the money, but it wasn’t in my nature. I never wanted to admit the trouble I was in. I should have been looking at my finances.”

The X Factor judge continued: “I would never disclose how much – but it had to be a lot to look at my parents’ faces and see the anguish in my dad’s eyes. I don’t regret it, but I feel relieved that people know why I did it – it’s a huge weight off my shoulders. It was actually fun and I did feel liberated. I looked at the pictures and thought, ‘I look alright!’”