Holly Valance: From Aussie pop star to Trump cheerleader

She played a clean-cut schoolgirl successful the Australian soap opera Neighbours, past reinvented herself arsenic a popular prima with racy chart-topping hits.

Now, 2 decades later, Holly Valance has go the UK poster miss for Donald Trump's bid to retake the White House.

On Wednesday, she hosted an exclusive fundraiser successful London, wherever summons prices started astatine $10,000 (£7,800) and meal outgo $50,000.

"It's a Holly party," Nigel Farage, a chap Trump protagonist and person of Valance, told the London Times earlier the fundraising lawsuit adjacent the Chelsea Embankment. "You tin warrant it’s going to beryllium tremendous fun."

It is rather the nationalist translation for Valance, whose re-emergence arsenic a governmental surrogate whitethorn astonishment those successful Britain and Australia who retrieve her arsenic Felicity "Flick" Scully successful Neighbours, oregon for her 2002 deed Kiss Kiss.

Born Holly Rachel Vukadinovic to Serb-British parents successful Melbourne, Australia, successful 1983, Valance attended a strict Catholic schoolhouse where, she erstwhile said, wearing a hem excessively precocious could effect successful detention.

She began modelling for supermarket catalogues and advertisement campaigns by the property of 14.

Television stardom came soon after, earlier she embarked connected a heady - if little - vocation arsenic a popular prima with 1 medium that scored 3 apical 10 hits, earlier she returned to acting, starring arsenic Nina Volek successful deed US play Prison Break.

Her politics, she has said, changed arsenic she matured.

Valance, 41, who present lives successful the UK with her billionaire spot developer and Tory Party donor hubby Nick Candy, told GB News earlier this twelvemonth that "everyone starts arsenic a lefty", but "wakes up... past realise what crap ideas they each are”.

"And past you spell to the right.”

In different interviews with the channel, she has expressed her dismay astatine "woke-ism" and the "Nanny state".

"The Australia I grew up successful was unreal. It was truthful amusive and we didn't look to person each these problems... the woke stuff's truly gone large successful Australia," she said.

On enactment acquisition for children, she said: "I don't deliberation sexuality and children should beryllium successful the aforesaid sentence."

On clime change, she has called Greta Thunberg a "demonic small gremlin", who is celebrated contempt "giving children nary hope".

Climate alteration is "not a crisis... the aerial is amended than erstwhile I was increasing up", she has said.

"Cleaner, cheaper vigor is what we need... we tin person it... but erstwhile you are putting each these restrictions connected mean radical trying to spell astir their concern - it's conscionable insanity."

Her enactment for Trump, specifically, has firmed up arsenic she has grown person to Mr Farage. The seasoned Brexit politician, who present leads the Reform Party, told the London Times that Valance had "kept quiescent for galore years".

Mr Farage invited Valance and her hubby to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s location successful Florida, successful April 2022.

The representation of the meeting, posted connected X, formerly Twitter, cemented Valance's spot wrong the Trump camp.

And truthful to Wednesday nighttime successful westbound London, wherever Valance was the prima of arguably the biggest predetermination fundraising lawsuit for Trump extracurricular the US, attended by the erstwhile president's lad Don Jr, Mr Farage and immoderate precise affluent American expats.

But her governmental power does not halt there.

Valance has suggested that she had immoderate power successful persuading Mr Farage to contention the Clacton constituency successful the British predetermination successful July.

"I person been whispering successful his receptor for a agelong time,” she told GB News.

She has besides suggested that she would run for Mr Farage.

"If helium asks me, past probably," she said.

However, she wondered whether "anyone wants to spot maine knocking connected their doors anymore... Maybe 20 years ago".