Editing Lulu (singer) (section)

===2000: Return to prominence and ''Together''===
[[File:Lulu cropped.jpg|thumb|right|Lulu in 2004]]

Now known as Lulu Kennedy-Cairns<ref>Lulu 2002, p. 307.</ref> (her late mother's birth name before she was adopted by the McDonald family<ref>Lulu 2002, p. 5.</ref>), in 2000 she was awarded an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] by Queen [[Elizabeth II]]. Lulu's autobiography, published in 2002, was titled ''I Don't Want to Fight'' after the [[I Don't Wanna Fight|hit song]] she and her brother wrote with songwriter [[Steve DuBerry]] for [[Tina Turner]], a song that Lulu herself released in 2003 as part of her album ''[[The Greatest Hits (Lulu album)|The Greatest Hits]]''. Her 2002 gold album, ''[[Together (Lulu album)|Together]]'', was a collection of duets with Elton John and [[Paul McCartney]] among others, tracks from which were performed in a high-profile TV special for ITV, ''[[An Audience with...|An Audience With Lulu]]'', which saw Lulu reunited with her first husband [[Maurice Gibb]] for a live performance of "[[First of May (Bee Gees song)|First of May]]". Her rendition of "We've Got Tonight", with Ronan Keating, reached #4 in the United Kingdom, matching the chart peak of the "Together" album.

In 2000, Lulu sat on the 5,387,862nd and final classic Mini when it came off the production line.<ref>{{cite news | title = End of the Mini | publisher = [[BBC News Online]] | date = 4 October 2000 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/955500.stm | access-date = 28 January 2016}}</ref> In the ceremony at the [[Birmingham]] factory, Lulu drove a red [[Mini Cooper]], registration 1959–2000, off the track to music from ''[[The Italian Job]]'', the 1969 film in which several Mini Coopers featured prominently. In 2004, she released the album ''[[Back on Track (Lulu album)|Back on Track]]'' and went on a UK-wide tour to celebrate forty years in the music business. The album charted at No. 68. In late 2004, she returned to radio as the host of a two-hour radio show on BBC Radio 2, playing an eclectic blend of music from the 1950s to the 2000s. In 2005, Lulu released ''A Little Soul in Your Heart'', a collection of soul classics that entered the [[UK Albums Chart]] at No. 28. In March 2006, she launched her official [[MySpace]] profile. She also appeared on the popular British comedy programme ''[[The Kumars at No. 42]]''.

Lulu continued to act occasionally and starred alongside [[Tom Courtenay]] and [[Stephen Fry]] in the British film ''[[Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?]]'' She also appeared in the BBC's reality TV show ''[[Just the Two of Us (TV series)|Just the Two of Us]]'' in 2006 as a judge, alongside [[Trevor Nelson]], [[CeCe Sammy]] and [[Stewart Copeland]]. She was replaced by [[Tito Jackson]] for Series Two in 2007. In late June and early July 2006, she appeared on Take That's tour of the UK and Ireland to perform their song "Relight My Fire". She appeared on ''[[American Idol]]'' Season 6 on 20 March 2007 as a mentor for the female contestants, and the following night performed "To Sir With Love". Later in 2007, she appeared in the UK as a guest for [[Jools Holland]] in a series of concerts and features, and on Holland's CD release "Best of Friends", performing "Where Have All the Good Guys Gone?" Lulu's complete Atco recordings, made between 1969 and 1972, were released on 12 November 2007. The two-CD set included previously unreleased and demo versions of some of her recordings from this period. In December 2007 she released a download single on [[iTunes]] in the UK, called "[[Run Rudolph Run]]". At this time Lulu was also promoting a range of beauty products on [[QVC (UK)|QVC]], called "Time Bomb", and appeared on a 2007 Christmas television advert for the [[Morrisons]] supermarket chain in the UK.

[[File:Lulu guesting for Jools Holland at Border Hill 230607.jpg|thumb|left|Performing with [[Jools Holland]] at [[Borde Hill Garden]] 23 June 2007.]]

In November 2008, Lulu was announced as one of a number of Scottish celebrities to feature in the advertising campaign for [[Homecoming Scotland 2009|Homecoming Scotland]], a year-long event to encourage people around the world with Scottish heritage to return to Scotland. Also in November 2008, Lulu posted the following message on her website, celebrating the election of [[Barack Obama]] as President of the United States: "Barack Obama Is In – Yippee, now we have got hope in the World. I've just turned 60, Obama is the new president of the USA and I think its going to be a fantastic year. Love Lu X". In the 1979, 1983 and 1987 [[United Kingdom general elections overview|UK general elections]], Lulu had been a supporter of [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].<ref name=Tory>{{cite news |title=Interview: Lulu, singer |url=http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/interviews/Interview-Lulu-singer.5720745.jp |access-date=6 September 2011 |newspaper=Scotland on Sunday |date=11 October 2009}}</ref>

In January 2009, Lulu began a four-week stint as an advisor/coach on the BBC show ''[[Eurovision: Your Country Needs You]]'', helping to choose the singer to represent the UK at the [[2009 Eurovision Song Contest]]. In the summer of 2009, Lulu guest presented on [[STV (TV network)|STV]]'s daily lifestyle show ''[[The Hour (magazine series)|The Hour]]'', alongside main presenter [[Stephen Jardine]]. She appeared between 27 and 31 July. The Scottish magazine programme airs weekdays at 5pm. Around this time she pitched her range of "Lulu's" anti-ageing products and other cosmetics through the home shopping channel QVC (UK), using her youthful appearance as a promotional tool. After appearing at an [[ABBA]] tribute concert in [[Hyde Park, London]] during September 2009, Lulu announced that she would be touring the UK in a [[Here Come the Girls (concert tour)|Here Come the Girls]] alongside [[Chaka Khan]] and [[Anastacia]]. The trio promoted the concert series on UK TV, ahead of the first performance in November 2009, which took on twenty different dates.