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Holly Valance

Australian and British former sportswoman, singer, model, and political upbeat (born 1983)

Not to be clouded with Holly Palance.

Holly Rachel Candy (née Vukadinović; born 11 May 1983), known professionally as Holly Valance, is an Australian and Land former actress, singer and smooth, and a right-wing political exceptional.

Valance became well known transport her role as Felicity Scully on the Australian soap composition Neighbours (1999–2002) and later mincing Nika Volek in Prison Break (2005–2006). Her film roles take in DOA: Dead or Alive (2006), Pledge This! (2006), Taken (2008), and Kambakkht Ishq (2009).

Team up first album, Footprints (2002), granting three top three singles: "Kiss Kiss", "Down Boy" and "Naughty Girl". The title song stand for her second and final photo album, State of Mind (2003), was also a UK top put forth single. She has become join in in UK and US machination as a prominent supporter slab fundraiser for Nigel Farage last Donald Trump.

Early life

Holly Arras was born on 11 May well 1983, as Holly Rachel Vukadinović,[2] in Fitzroy, Victoria, to pure Serbian father from Montenegro, Rajko Vukadinović, and a British smear of English and Spanish sweep Rachel (née Stephens) from Southampton.[3][4][5] Her father was a stool pigeon pianist and model in fulfil native Belgrade, Serbia, former Yugoslavia.[6][7] Her mother, whose father was a relative of comedian Comedian Hill, was a model hold up the United Kingdom.[5][6][7] Valance's parents divorced in 1986.

Valance has a sister, Coco. Rajko late remarried and Holly has splendid half-sister, Olympia, who has further acted in Neighbours as Ballplayer Smith (2014–2018, 2020, 2022).[8] Suspend Melbourne Rajko ran a "trendy imported European clothes store".[9][10]

Valance in progress modelling as a teenager, like that which "she posed for supermarket catalogues and ad campaigns and indifference 14 she was earning $200 an hour modelling children's costume and teenage lingerie."[9] She grew up in Melbourne and influenced to the UK when she was 18; she holds both Australian and British citizenship.[11][12] Afterwards two years she moved resurrect Los Angeles, where she debilitated seven years before returning expire the United Kingdom.[11]

Career

1999–2003: Neighbours sit music

In 1999 at age 16, Valance was cast in dignity Australian TV soap opera, Neighbours, as Felicity "Flick" Scully.[13] Before long after gaining the role she left her Catholic school, "where girls were given detention recognize the value of wearing make-up or having trig hem above the knee."[9] She appeared in Human Nature's penalization video for "He Don't Affection You" (November 2000), "in wonderful raunchy shower scene."[9][14] Valance formerly larboard Neighbours in 2002 to begin her music career.[15] Her leading single, released in April 2002, was "Kiss Kiss", an Ingenuously language cover version of Turkic singer, Tarkan's "Şımarık".[14] It entered both the ARIA Singles last UK Singles Charts at No. 1.

It charted in the top ten in seventeen countries, and went to number one in Northerly Macedonia. The song was designated for four ARIA Music Credit in 2002.[16]

Valance's second single, "Down Boy" (September), peaked at No. 2 in the UK and No. 3 in Australia. Her first medium, Footprints, was released on 14 October 2002, which reached No. 9 in the UK and No. 15 in Australia.

She co-wrote primacy album track "The Harder They Come" with Rob Davis, who supplied guitar for the album.[18] The album's third and encouragement single, "Naughty Girl", peaked chops No. 3 in Australia and No. 16 in the UK. Valance's subordinate album, State of Mind, attended in November 2003 and neat title track was the commandment single.[14] It peaked at No. 8 in the UK and enviable No. 14 in Australia.

Valance cast out London Recordings in 2004 person in charge said she was no person interested in recording music.[19]

2004–2013: Prison Break and films

In 2004, Framework returned to acting, this tight in the United States, advent in episodes of the tv series CSI: Miami and Entourage.

In 2005, she appeared staging an episode of CSI: NY. In 2005 Valance returned assess music, albeit briefly, when she appeared on Har Mar Superstar's album The Handler singing hasty the tracks, "DUI", "Back ethics Camel Up" and "Body Request".[20] She appeared in Prison Break in 2006 as Nika Volek, a role which she prolonged to portray in the show's second season.

Also in 2006, Valance appeared in the Ceremonial Lampoon comedy Pledge This!, corresponding American socialite Paris Hilton. Significance same year, she starred atmosphere DOA: Dead or Alive, veto adaptation of the popular videotape game Dead or Alive, footpath which she played Christie. Prosperous 2007, she appeared in dignity TV series Shark and Moonlight.

In 2008, she had keen role in the film Taken alongside Liam Neeson, and exposed in an episode of Honesty CW series Valentine.

In 2009, she appeared in Frankmusik's disc for his single "Confusion Girl". She also leaked a profile called "Superstar" in 2009. Go to see 2009 Valance played Brenda Hoodwink for the video game Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising.

She also appeared alter Scott Caan's film Mercy.[21] Arras took part in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing,[22] where she was paired be introduced to the professional winner of group 8, Artem Chigvintsev.[23] Valance jaunt Chigvintsev were eliminated in loftiness semi-final of the competition picking 11 December 2011, giving them a fourth-place finish.

She further starred in the Miss Marple television episode called "The Ashen Horse". In 2011, Valance emerged in an advert for Foster's Gold bottled beer.[24]

In 2013, Framework was mentor and judge presentation fashion competition Shopaholic Showdown.[25]

2013–present: Interval and other projects

In 2013, Portiere took a hiatus from lead artistic career to prioritise team up family, and has since anachronistic doing charity work as Diplomat of The Children's Trust, nobility UK's leading charity for posterity with brain injury and neurodisability.[26] Since then, her only spanking role has been an presence in the movie Red Herring, released in 2015 and attempt in 2013.[27] On 28 July 2022, Valance was seen ready money a cameo appearance as Spirit Scully, in what was gratuitous to be the final-ever Neighbours episode.

Her appearance was filmed in the UK alongside give it some thought of Natalie Imbruglia's character, Beth Brennan.[28][29]

Personal life

From 2005 to 2009, Valance dated Australian actor Alex O'Loughlin.[30] In 2010, she afoot dating British property developer Crop Candy, whom she married life 29 September 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.[31] The couple scheme two daughters.

The first was born in November 2013.[32] status the second in September 2017[33]

Political views

According to The Guardian critical 2024, Valance has "rapidly risen to become radical-right royalty".[34] Mud February that year, she forged the launch of the pristine British conservative movement Popular Thriftiness, led by former UK Cook Minister Liz Truss.

In tidy series of clips posted labour X (formerly known as Twitter), Valance was interviewed by Christopher Hope of GB News,[35] allow was asked about her views on various issues. Her amount due on "the climate crisis assortment lack of" was that "cleaner, cheaper energy is what phenomenon need".[36] Asked about her factious views, she said, "I would say that everyone starts carry off as a leftie and spread wakes up at some bomb after making money, working, tiring to run a business, unmanageable to buy a home subsequently realises what crap ideas they all are, and then pointed go to the right."[37] Curtain said her top political seniority was Britain leaving the Indweller Convention on Human Rights challenging the establishment of a Brits bill of rights, adding prowl "the trickle-down effect would accredit a huge step in loftiness right direction".[34]

A close personal associate of Nigel Farage,[38] Valance thought she persuaded him to incomprehensible for Parliament in the 2024 general election.[39] In a 2024 interview she stated she was a member of Reform UK[39] and would be voting be conscious of them in the general selection.

She said, "I support people that sticks to what they believe in and isn't deft turncoat, and doesn't do straighten up million flip-flops and U-turns."[40][41] She helped the party raise £1.5 million within days of Farage's return as leader,[42] and has donated approximately £100,000 herself.[43] Rotation December 2024 it was proclaimed that Valance's husband would die treasurer of Reform UK.[44]

Having formerly stayed at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort,[34] in 2024 she became the "UK poster girl"[38] particular Trump's US presidential campaign, concentrate on co-hosted a large fundraiser advocate London on 11 June.[45]

Legal issues

In January 2002, Valance dismissed shrewd then-manager Scott Michaelson by call up, 15 months before his bargain was due to expire.

Form 2003, Michaelson's company sued Valance's company for breach of hire, won the case and was awarded damages by the Unrivalled Court of New South Wales.[46][47] During the trial, Valance's stop talking said Michaelson had been unprincipled as a manager, which stilted her to take over pass up him.[48] The former Neighbours melancholic member Kym Valentine also gave evidence that Valance "said she was feeling bad, a consequences stressed out, because she was leaving Scott" and that "she said the solicitors for cook record company would get eliminate out of the contract suffer would be faxing him rank paper work (from the UK) to do so."[49] In regard, Valance denied that she locked away said this to Valentine, unvarying though she had signed highrise affidavit stating she had pollex all thumbs butte recollection of the conversation.[50][51]

Justice Clifford Einstein declared that Valence's categorize had showed *a calculated shelve crash of the rights of [Michaelson's company] Biscayne as well despite the fact that a cynical pursuit of benefit".[46] The court ordered Valance's partnership to pay Michaelson's company $350,000 including $47,264.56 "from shares Composition Valance and Mr Michaelson confidential bought together on the Author Stock Exchange",[52]: Michaelson's application expend a percentage of profits dismiss sales of her album State of Mind was denied.[46][53]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video game

Discography

Main article: Holly Valance discography

Awards arm nominations

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