Holly Valance: From Australian pop star to Trump cheerleader
1 day ago
By Graeme Baker, BBC News, Washington
GettyShe played a clean-cut schoolgirl in the Australian soap Neighbors, then reinvented herself as a pop star with racy chart-topping hits.
Now, two decades later, Holly Valance has become the British face of Donald Trump's bid to retake the White House.
On Wednesday, she hosted an exclusive fundraiser in London, where ticket prices started at $10,000 (£7,800) and dinner cost $50,000.
"It's a Holly party", Nigel Farage, a colleague of Trump. supporter and friend of Valance, told the London Times ahead of the fundraising event near the Chelsea Embankment. "You can guarantee it's going to be extremely fun."
It's a real public transformation for Valance, whose re-emergence as a political surrogate might surprise those from Britain and Australia who remember her as Felicity "Flick" Scully in Neighbors, or for her 2002 hit Kiss Kiss.
Born Holly Rachel Vukadinovic to Serbian-British parents in Melbourne, Australia, in 1983, Valance attended a strict Catholic school where, she once said, wearing a hemline too high could result in detention.
She began posing for supermarket catalogs and advertising campaigns before the age of 14.
GettyTV stardom arrived shortly time later, before she embarked on a heady – if brief – career as a pop star with an album that recorded three top 10 hits, before returning to acting, in the role of. Nina Volek in the hit US drama Prison Break.
Her politics, she said, changed as she grew up.
Valance, 41, who now lives in the UK with his billionaire property developer and the Conservatives...
1 day ago
By Graeme Baker, BBC News, Washington
GettyShe played a clean-cut schoolgirl in the Australian soap Neighbors, then reinvented herself as a pop star with racy chart-topping hits.
Now, two decades later, Holly Valance has become the British face of Donald Trump's bid to retake the White House.
On Wednesday, she hosted an exclusive fundraiser in London, where ticket prices started at $10,000 (£7,800) and dinner cost $50,000.
"It's a Holly party", Nigel Farage, a colleague of Trump. supporter and friend of Valance, told the London Times ahead of the fundraising event near the Chelsea Embankment. "You can guarantee it's going to be extremely fun."
It's a real public transformation for Valance, whose re-emergence as a political surrogate might surprise those from Britain and Australia who remember her as Felicity "Flick" Scully in Neighbors, or for her 2002 hit Kiss Kiss.
Born Holly Rachel Vukadinovic to Serbian-British parents in Melbourne, Australia, in 1983, Valance attended a strict Catholic school where, she once said, wearing a hemline too high could result in detention.
She began posing for supermarket catalogs and advertising campaigns before the age of 14.
GettyTV stardom arrived shortly time later, before she embarked on a heady – if brief – career as a pop star with an album that recorded three top 10 hits, before returning to acting, in the role of. Nina Volek in the hit US drama Prison Break.
Her politics, she said, changed as she grew up.
Valance, 41, who now lives in the UK with his billionaire property developer and the Conservatives...
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