Jason Donovan says Kylie Minogue was his ‘first true’ love

Jason Donovan has admitted that his romance with Kylie Minogue was ‘full on’. 

The pair, who met as teenagers while starring on soap opera Neighbours, dated for five years before splitting in 1989. 

The actor, 55, has fond memories of his time with the pop star, 55, as he told The Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday. 

‘I was in a number of relationships before I married. The first true one was with Kylie Minogue from 1984 to 1989’ Jason said. 

‘That was full-on, for obvious reasons’ he added. 

 ‘It was great and we created magic together on screen – we were boyfriend and girlfriend on Neighbours – and off screen. We’re still good friends.’

The pair reunited for the Neighbours finale episode last year, reprising their iconic roles as Scott and Charlene Robinson.  

In 2012, Jason revealed he still can’t talk to Kylie about their break-up after taking their on screen romance off screen.

He admitted it was ‘a pretty big punch to take’ when the Locomotion singer left him for INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.

‘It was an extremely painful parting of the ways and, without doubt, I took a long time to recover from it,’ he told the Mirror. 

‘I was in a number of relationships before I married. The first true one was with Kylie Minogue from 1984 to 1989. That was full-on, for obvious reasons’ he said. Pictured together in 1990

‘It was great and we created magic together on screen – we were boyfriend and girlfriend on Neighbours – and off screen. We’re still good friends’ he said 

‘It was bad enough that she’d run off with anybody, but she happened to run into the arms of the greatest rock god of the period, the very guy who I secretly wanted to be.’ 

He added that he and Kylie had never spoken about their headline-making split, claiming they simply ‘aren’t close enough to get into that’.  

Jason previously revealed he felt like a ‘little lost boy’ when the pair separated in 1989.

At the time he told the Daily Telegraph he didn’t see the break-up coming and that he was completely thrown when he discovered she had fallen for the rocker.

Jason admitted it was ‘a pretty big punch to take’ when the Locomotion singer left him for INXS frontman Michael Hutchence. Kylie and Michael pictured together 

‘I didn’t expect it. God, I was a big Michael Hutchence fan at the time,’ he said.

‘He was the epitome of the Australian rock God and uber-cool. It made me look at myself, thinking, ‘What am I?”

Michael died in 1997 after he was found dead in his hotel room in Sydney.

Jason has been married to stage manager Angela Malloch since 2008 and they have two children,  daughter Jemma and son Zac. 

Kylie meanwhile split from British GQ exec Paul Solomons after five years together earlier this year, and has since relocated from Britain to Australia. 

The pair reunited for the Neighbours finale episode last year, reprising their iconic roles as Scott and Charlene Robinson