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Is outing OK if your big sister is the dance floor patron saint of us gays? When the words “Turning a girl’s song into a boy’s song... if we are to believe everything we have read in the paper, you didn’t need to change the reference in it” fell from her lips, was it a case of bad taste or just the normal conversation starter of a fag-hag?

The furore over her ‘controversial’ remarks on The X Factor is an interesting study on how the ‘straight’ media commentators like to gasp political correctness when confronted by a statement about someone’s queer sexuality. Singer Danyl Johnson had already expressed his sexual preference in the press long before he X Factored the Dreamgirls hit “And I Am Telling You,” flipping up the lyric “You’re the best man…” into “You’re the best girl…”

In a week when Obama announced he wants to scrap the discriminatory “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuality in the US military, the fact Dannii’s flicky haired handbag comment should draw such global media attention is indeed an indicator of how celebrity comment has consumed the political commentary air space. Minogue’s TV outing-gate versus Obama’s great military march forward was won 2 to 1 in media coverage levels in Dannii’s favour.

So much more offensive was the other judge’s comments that contestant Danyl was “not likeable” and “too cocky”. So don’t sweat it Dannii. Straight people ask us gays more un-PC questions about our sexuality every day.