Cyndi Lauper inhales helium before she performs live.

The "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" singer, famed for high-pitched voice, was spotted sucking the voice-distorting gas out of balloons back stage at the Hetrick-Martin Institute benefit gala, in New York, last week.

Scissor Sisters star Jake Shears has written a song for Kylie Minogue after being inspired by her breast cancer battle.

The flamboyant frontman was so moved by friend Kylie's recovery he pleaded with her to go into the studio with him. However, Jake doesn't believe the track will ever see the light of day because it's "darker" than her usual material.

Scissor Sisters singer Jake Shears is to marry his boyfriend in a flamboyant New York ceremony.

The outlandish star - who recently bought an apartment in New York with Chris, who he has been dating for eight years - plans to tie the knot with his lover in a "glorious" ceremony next spring.

Kylie Minogue plans to make her pop comeback with a duet with Boy George.

The diminutive singer - who has been working on new material for several months after beating breast cancer - has recorded a version of Culture Club's hit 'Victim' with singer George for "a laugh."

Scissor Sisters singer Jake Shears wants to find a surrogate mother to have his and his boyfriend's babies. The flamboyant musician is desperate to start a family with his lover Chris, and would like his future family to include a child fathered by each of them.

He told British TV show 'Orange Playlist': "It would be really cool to have two kids by the same mom, one impregnated by him and one by me, that way they would look like us and each other. I think it's inevitable that we're going to have kids."