Former pop music and television star Holly Valance is hosting a mammoth fundraiser for Donald Trump alongside Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle in London, England, on June 12. Valance is well-known to the British public for her role on Neighbours, an Australian soap opera also popular in Britain. She gained international fame for her 2002 album Footprints, and especially for her single Kiss Kiss.
“She’s glamorous. She doesn’t fit into the pigeonhole. She doesn’t fit into the woke agenda of Hollywood, and people don’t expect that,” a Valance admirer in Trump’s camp told the British press.
“It’s a Holly party, so you can guarantee it’s going to be enormous fun,” said Nigel Farage, the former Brexit Party leader and Trump ally.
Farage introduced Valance and her husband, billionaire property developer Nick Candy, to Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
“She kept quiet for many, many years,” Farage said of Valance’s conservative views, saying he had often warned her that “once you go public, there’s no way back.”
Valance, who describes Trump as “charming, polite, very quick-witted,” and “a great listener,” said in February that “Everyone starts as a leftie, and then wakes up and realizes all the ideas are crap.”
“It was a funny sliding doors moment because I didn’t think anything I said was particularly edgy or profound or revolutionary,” she said of her comments “coming out” as conservative.
“But maybe it was a good moment for someone in the entertainment industry to buck the trend of only contributing their latest project pitch or their pronouns.”
Tickets for the London fundraiser cost up to $100,000 (£78,500) for a couple.
