She portrayed a clean-cut schoolgirl in the Australian soap opera Neighbours before reinventing herself as a pop star with racy, chart-topping hits.
Now, two decades later, Holly Valance has emerged as the UK poster girl for ex-US President 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 fellow Trump supporter and friend of Valance, told the London Times before the fundraising event near Chelsea Embankment. “You can guarantee it’s going to be enormous fun.”
It is quite the public transformation for Valance, whose re-emergence as a political surrogate may surprise those in Britain and Australia who remember her as Felicity “Flick” Scully in Neighbours, or for her 2002 hit “Kiss Kiss.”
Born Holly Rachel Vukadinovic to Serb-British parents in Melbourne, Australia, in 1983, Valance attended a strict Catholic school where, she once said, wearing a hem too high could result in detention.
By the age of 14, she began modeling for supermarket catalogues and ad campaigns.
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