Australian actress and former singer Holly Valance is the new icon of the transatlantic radical right
She was an early model of children’s clothing and lingerie for teenagers. She made the leap as an actress in the Australian television series Neighbors. She later became a pop singer with hits like Kiss Kiss either Down Boy. And now, at 41 years old and with two daughters, Holly Valance aspires to be the poster girl either pretty girl of the transatlantic radical rightwith its political heart divided between Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.
“If it’s Holly’s party, we guarantee it will be fun,” Farage announced at the entrance to the exclusive event. fundraising for the Trump campaign recently held on the Chelsea Pier in London. donald trump Jr. He attended on behalf of his father, and Holly Valance thus certified his status as a brand new bridge between the two shores: “What is good for the United States is good for us.”
After all, it was her friend Nigel Farage who arranged her visit to Mar-a-Lago in 2022, in the company of her husband, the British real estate magnate Nick Candy. The double political crush was consummated. And, in fact, Valance herself boasts of “having whispered in Farage’s ear” to finally run as a candidate for the elections. 4th of july elections (in exchange for a generous check for the Reform UK).
Holly has acknowledged that she is to the right of her husband Nick, a donor until now to the Conservative Party, with whom she has also flirted. Her definitive turn to populism was consummated with her presence at Farage’s 60th birthday party, whom she defines as “a man of strength and conviction” and “a politician faithful to his principles, rather than make millions of swerves”.
Born in Australia, to a Serbian father and a British mother, few could predict the artistic and political evolution of Holly Valance, forged as she herself says with her experiences “straddling three continents”, including her time at a strict Catholic school “in the that they punished you for wearing makeup or for wearing your skirt above your knee.
As a young woman, when she worked as a model and played Felicity flick Scully in Neighbors was more of a rebellious girl. “I would say that we all start on the leftthat we woke up at a certain point and that, after working, making some money, trying to start a company or buying a house, you realize that all those ideas were stupid, and then you turn right“.
Immigration, despite her status as the daughter of an immigrant father, is her great obsession shared with her friend Farage. Staunch defender of Brexitconsiders that the United Kingdom should abandon the 1953 European Convention on Human Rights and thus avoid any possible interference from a foreign court.
During the Covid confinements, he read 1984 of Orwell, and that made him rebel against “the nanny state” and against “the restrictions on individual freedom, which is like we wouldn’t even bang our heads on the wall.” Climate change seems like a Chinese story and Greta Thunberg is, in his opinion, “a small gremlin diabolical that takes away hope from children.
“Climate change is not a crisis, The air we breathe is better than the years I grew up“, he maintains. His native Australia has fallen, he says, into the networks of the wokism left-wing, like the US. And something similar is feared could happen to the United Kingdom if Labor Party leader Keir Starmer wins.
In the run-up to the election campaign, Valance was even mentioned as a possible candidate for the electoral district of Basildon and Billericay, where she lives with her family. “I’m not ready to take the leap now,” she responded to the rumors, citing the care her two school-age daughters require. But she herself has shown her Willingness to become an MP in the future“when the conditions are met to perform hard work that requires full attention.”
