Olympia Valance distances herself from sister Holly Candy’s controversial views
Model Olympia Valance says she doesn’t share the same views as half-sister Holly, who labelled Australia “too woke” and Greta Thunberg a “demonic little gremlin”.
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Olympia Valance has distanced herself from the very different views shared by half-sister Holly Candy, nee Valance, who made headlines last week.
Candy slammed Australia for being too “woke” and also labelled climate activist Greta Thunberg a “demonic little gremlin” in a tell-all interview with GB News.
“We don’t have the same views and opinions,’’ said Valance, married to former footy star Thomas Bellchambers.
“I don’t believe what she believes. We’re allowed to have different opinions, she’s still family and I love her to bits but we don’t agree politically.
“Everyone can speak their own opinion and their truth, but that’s not mine.”
Candy, who rose to prominence on Neighbours and as a singer, has lived in the UK with her billionaire husband Nick Candy and their two kids for a decade and admitted she has no desire to move.
“The Australia I grew up in was unreal. It was so fun and we didn’t seem to have all these problems,” Candy said.
“The woke stuff’s really gone big in Australia.”
Candy accused Swede Thunberg of infiltrating the minds and “classrooms” of children with her extreme views on climate existentialism.
“I don’t understand why you have this, like, demonic little gremlin high priestess of climatism as the goddess in classrooms, Greta (Thunberg)…” she said.
Radio host Kyle Sandilands leapt to Candy’s defence.
“I hate that chick too” he said.
Candy, also pictured previously with former US president Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, has had her political views expressed as far-right.
“I would say that everyone starts off as a leftie, 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 you realise what crap ideas they all are,” Candy said.
“And then you go to the right.”