Kyle Sandilands responds to Holly Candy’s savage spray at Australia and Greta Thunberg

Kyle Sandilands has responded to former soap star Holly Candy’s savage spray against Australia and climate activist Greta Thunberg.

KIIS FM host Kyle Sandilands has responded after former Aussie soap star Holly Candy (née Valance) took aim at Australia and labelled climate activist Greta Thunberg a “demonic little gremlin” in an extraordinary new interview.

The notoriously private Aussie star, who became a household name after landing the role of Felicity Scully on Neighbours in 1999 and briefly launching a pop career, delivered her blistering assessment on GB News’ Chopper’s Political Podcast.

“I don’t understand why you have this, like, demonic little gremlin high priestess of climatism as the goddess in classrooms, Greta [Thunberg] …” Candy, 40, told host Christopher Hope.

“All the kids are all coming home with depression and anxiety”, she said.

“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?”

The former actress and singer has lived in the UK for more than a decade, and has largely shunned the spotlight since marrying her British husband, billionaire property developer Nick Candy, with whom she now shares two children.

During the wide-ranging new interview, Candy also hit out at her homeland, claiming it was plagued with “problems” as a result of the increasing “woke stuff”.

“The Australia I grew up in was unreal. It was so fun and we didn’t seem to have all these problems,” she said.

“The woke stuff’s really gone big in Australia.”

Candy has given a rare interview. Picture: GB News

She branded Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg as “demonic”. Picture: Thibaud Moritz/AFP

Sandilands and co-host Jackie O discussed the interview on their show on Monday morning.

Asked about the “climate change stuff”, Sandilands said: “That stuff is bullsh*t”.

On Candy’s rant about Thunberg, Kyle said: “Oh, I hate that chick, too.”

But he did not agree with Candy’s issue about what Australian kids are being taught in schools or the issue of “drag storytime”.

“Do you care if a drag queen is reading a storybook? Unless they are drag stories or going down a creepy road, I don’t care. It’s just another person dressed up in a costume.”

In the wide-ranging interview that was published on Sunday, Candy elaborated on the “woke culture” and “the stuff they’re teaching in school”.

“I don’t think sexuality and children should be in the same sentence,” she said.

“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?”

Candy then specifically targeted “nanny state” Victoria, telling the host she was “still getting fines every few months for not voting”, joking that the government will “fine you for breathing”.

Despite her staunchly right-wing political stance, Candy firmly ruled out any consideration of a return to Australia if Labour were to win the upcoming UK election.

“The plan would be to stay and live where we love, which is here,” Candy said.

“I’m very patriotic to this place. My mother is from Southampton. My whole family is English.

“I don’t want to go anywhere. And Nick doesn’t want to go anywhere. We prefer to be in our country.”

Elsewhere in the wide-ranging interview, Candy praised former US President Donald Trump, describing him as “fabulous”.

Back in 2022, the pair – along with her husband as well as British politician Nigel Farage – popped up in a picture from a cosy dinner at Trump’s resort, Mar-A-Lago, in Florida.

Actress Holly Candy at the Sheraton on the Park Hotel in the Sydney CBD.

Holly Candy when she appeared on BBC TV program "Strictly Come Dancing".

Candy met with the former US President in 2022.

“He was extremely warm, extremely gentlemanly and very interested in everything going on in the UK. Him and Nigel are very good friends and I think that’s very important for us coming up to the US election.”

When Hope questioned whether his controversial past remarks about women had “put [Candy] off”, she told him people needed to “harden up”.

“People say nasty things all day,” Candy said. “I have had disgusting things said to me … Did I cry? No.”

Earlier this year, Candy was equally blunt during another rare media appearance where she was asked about her political views.

“Have you always been a right-of-centre person? Are you conservative? Where are you, politically?” a GB News interviewer quizzed her at an event for former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.

“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.”