Holly Valance raves about Nigel Farage: ‘Exactly what we all wanted’

Holly Valance has enthusiastically pledged her support for a controversial UK politician in a new interview.

Former Neighbours actress and pop star Holly Valance has enthusiastically pledged her support for controversial UK politician Nigel Farage in a new interview.

Pro-Brexit campaigner Farage announced this week that he will lead the right-wing Reform Party as a candidate in the July 4 British general election.

Asked for her reaction to Farage’s announcement, a beaming Valance said that “this is exactly what we all wanted. He gave the people what they asked for. Right move.”

Farage’s decision to stand in the election was a sudden U-turn, conceding on Monday that he’d “changed his mind” about his political future.

Asked if she’d had anything to do with that, Valance said she had been “whispering in his ear for a long time, saying ‘Come on, pull your finger out, give the people what they want’.”

The pair’s association was first made public back in 2022, when Farage posted a photo of his “great dinner” at former US President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate, with Valance and husband Nick Candy in tow.

Valance largely retired from the entertainment industry after she married billionaire property developer Candy in 2012. The couple have since had two children together.

Holly Valance was overjoyed

Holly listens as Farage delivers a speech. Picture: AFP

Valance described herself as a “paid-up member” of the Reform party, which was founded in 2018 and operates with the Trump-esque slogan “Make Britain Great”.

“WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!” trumpets one of the anti-immigration party’s slogans.

“I think it’s really important to go and listen to everyone and educate yourself on all sides, and see who you find your morals and values are closest to. For me it’s Reform, it has been for a little while, so I’m gunning for that. I’m a paid-up member,” Valance told GB News.

From Ramsay Street to Mar-A-Lago … Nick Candy, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Holly Valance catch up in 2022. Picture: X

Asked if she would campaign for Farage at the election, Valance said: “Ooh. If he asked me, probably. Does anyone want to see me knocking on their door? Maybe 20 years ago.”

Valance also revealed she’d been a longtime fan of former UKIP leader Farage.

“I remember when I first came [to the UK] 15 years ago, everyone said, ‘This guy’s a right-wing lunatic.’ You didn’t want to say that you supported him or that you liked him. I couldn’t understand it, because UKIP’s manifesto was incredible and I agreed with pretty much all of it,” she enthused.

Asked how she rated 60-year-old I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! contestant Farage’s fitness to lead, Valance said: “I think he looks great actually. He looks really healthy and really well. If anyone can do it, it’s this guy.”

Valance on Farage: “I think he looks great, actually.” Picture: AFP

Holly in Melbourne in March 2023 with sister Olympia (left).

Valance’s outspoken right-wing views appear to have caused some awkwardness in her family, with her younger sister – and fellow Neighbours star – Olympia making a point of distancing herself from her sibling’s views in a radio interview last month.

Saying that Holly returned to Australia “rarely,” she told HIT WA’s Allan & Carly emphatically: “My sister and I have very, very different political views.”

“She has the right to say the things that she wants to say … but yes, that’s not my opinion on anything,” she said.

Her comments came after Holly made headlines with a March GB News podcast appearance in which she labelled climate activist Gretha Thunberg a “demonic little gremlin” and complaining that “the woke stuff’s really gone big” in her home country of Australia.

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