What happened to Holly Valance? (Picture: GB News)
At age 16, Holly Valance burst onto TV screens in Australian soap Neighbours, before storming to number one in the UK charts with her mega-hit cover of Kiss Kiss.
There was a time in the early noughties when you couldn’t avoid seeing Holly on TV or hear her on the radio, such was her meteoric rise to fame.
But nowadays she is better known for slamming Greta Thunberg as a ‘demonic little gremlin’ and has been a vocal supporter of the Conservative Party along with her billionaire husband Nick Candy, however announced this year that she would be voting for the right-wing Reform party in the next election.
Holly, 40, also boasts a net worth of £20 million from her own projects, with some small movie roles, TV appearances, and modelling under her belt.
She returned to prominence recently after being interviewed at the Tory party ‘Popular Conservatism’ launch, during which she denied that the climate crisis exists.
The former Strictly contestant added: ‘Everyone starts off as a leftie and then wakes up at some point after you start either making money, working, trying to run a business, trying to buy a home, and then realise what crap ideas they all are – and then you go to the right.’
Since her days as Flick on Neighbours, a lot has changed so here’s how Holly became the poster girl for the Tories.
She got her start on long-running Australian soap Neighbours (Picture: Fremantle Media/Shutterstock)
Holly Valance’s movies and TV shows
Holly rose to fame as Felicity ‘Flick’ Scully on Neighbours, starring on the popular Australian soap from 1999 to 2003.
After landing the role she dropped out of her Catholic high school, which she claimed ‘girls were given detention for wearing make-up or having a hem above the knee.’
She then branched out from the soap by appearing in the rather raunchy music video for Human Nature’s He Don’t Love You.
Not only did she act, but the rising star also released two studio albums, Footprints and State of Mind, and worked as a model.
Over her 20-year career, Holly has appeared in a handful of films including 2008’s Taken and National Lampoon’s Pledge This, starring Paris Hilton.
She appeared in a handful of films in the 00s and 10s (Picture: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Her pop career ended in 2003 after two albums (Picture: Ray Tang/Shutterstock)
Her brief stints on TV have consisted of episodes in CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, and Entourage as well as a recurring role on Prison Break.
She hasn’t appeared on the telly, other than political commentating, since 2013 when she was a judge on TLC’s now cancelled Shopaholic Showdown.
Two years before that, in 2011, the singer took a spin around the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom floor with professional partner Artem Chigvintsev.
She made it all the way to fourth place, losing out to a lineup of Jason Donovan, Chelsee Healey and winner McFly’s Harry Judd.
Who is Holly Valance’s husband, Nick Candy?
While professionally she is still known as Valance, Holly’s marital name is Holly Candy as she is married to the property billionaire Nick Candy.
Her vocal support of the Tory party starts to make more sense when you realise he is one of the Candy Brothers.
Nick, 51, along with his brother Christian, is responsible for creating the lavish £150million apartment block One Hyde Park in London.
She is married to property mogul Nick Candy (Picture: Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
They used to live in the most expensive flat in London (Picture: Neil Mockford/GC Images)
They bought their first property in 1995, thanks to a generous £6,000 loan from their grandmother, renovating the one-bedroom flat in Earls Court, London, while living in it.
Eighteen months later, having flipped the property, they then sold it for £172,000 — making a £50,000 profit.
Holly and Nick tied the knot in 2012 and share their two children Luka Violet Toni, born in 2013, and Nova Skye Coco, born in 2017.
The family previously lived in Britain’s most expensive flat, the two-storey Hyde Park penthouse worth £175million but have since downsized and now live in a £10million mansion in the Cotswolds.
What has Holly Valance said about Greta Thunberg?
During her Tory launch interview, Holly denied climate change was a real thing as she explained: ‘I just think the climate crisis – or lack of – is not a crisis.
‘The air is better than when I was growing up, it used to stink walking down the street when I was growing up.’
She said Greta Thunberg is scaring children (Picture: Henry Nicholls/AFP)
Holly blamed Greta for kids having ‘depression and anxiety’ (Picture: Ricky Vigil/Getty Images)
Now, she has lashed out at 21-year-old activist Greta, accusing her of scaring children while on GB News’ Chopper’s Political Podcast.
She said: ‘I don’t understand why you have this, like, demonic little gremlin high priestess of climatism as the goddess in classrooms, Greta (Thunberg). All the kids are all coming home with depression and anxiety.
‘Why would you go to your music lesson or bother doing your homework or get out of your bed if you think we’re all going to be dead in five years anyway?’
Not done criticising climate concerns, she also declared gender education and discussions around sexualities should not be allowed in schools.
She also reckons sex education in schools should be removed (Picture: Ricky Vigil/GC Images)
‘I don’t think sexuality and children should be in the same sentence,’ the former singer continued. ‘I don’t think anyone’s sexuality is anyone’s business.
‘You don’t know about mine. I don’t know about yours. Why would we?’
Adding to her rant against change, she then took aim at her home country Australia which has apparently gone too ‘woke’ for her liking.
Holly said: ‘The Australia I grew up in was unreal. It was so fun and we didn’t seem to have all these problems … the woke stuff’s really gone big in Australia.’
Fans react to Holly’s extreme career change
Fans who watched Holly in Neighbours or enjoyed her pop belter are confused to say the least about her more recent public appearances and outspoken views on politics.
Hundreds took to X to share their thoughts, with user MissTeeOfficial asking why she was being given a platform to talk about politics when her ‘biggest contribution to society is a role in Neighbours and being a one hit wonder’ — oof.
@utb_smith said ‘Holly Valance being a UK political commentator was not on my 2024 bingo card, and Kraig said ‘teenage me is very upset by this’.
User Jay Tee had a similar reaction, writing ‘Holly Valance ,,,,HOLLY VALANCE ???!!!! I was in love with her for a whole 2 years . What’s she doin in british politics?’
Wait, wait, wait… Holly Valance of “Kiss, Kiss”?!?!?!? Jesus, please, I know you’re busy… but… help?’ user Le Gateau Chocolat wrote.
And Daniel Jack Paproth joked ‘I sadly throw my Kiss Kiss single with Holly Valance calendar liner notes in the bin…’
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