Holly Valance has shared her views on the future of Britain – and Australia – as she sat down for a chat with The Karl Stefanovic Show.
The right-wing former Neighbours star, born Holly Vukadinović, also endorsed One Nation leader Pauline Hanson in the interview with Channel Nine television host Karl Stefanovic in a video uploaded to his YouTube page on Wednesday.
The 43-year-old believes that a focus on diversity has been detrimental to the UK, and foresees similar issues in Australia.
‘Yes it’s very welcoming to people, to a fault, but now unfortunately that is going to bite us all in the a**e in Australia. The question is, is it just too late now? And if the UK falls, what does that say for the rest of the Commonwealth?’ she said.
Valance believes Australia is ‘a little bit behind’ the UK in politics, but stood behind Senator Hanson’s messaging.
‘You can see the signs now, so you’ve got people like Pauline who are desperately trying to put on the brakes and change things. I’m really behind her. I think she’s amazing,’ Valance said.
Holly Valance (pictured) has shared her views on the future of Britain – and Australia – as she sat down for a chat with The Karl Stefanovic Show on Wednesday
The former pop star also discussed the controversial song she penned to promote Hanson’s film, A Super Progressive Movie.
The track, titled Kiss Kiss (XX) My Arse, was released on Australia Day and has reached No.1 on the Apple Music iTunes best-selling songs chart – soaring ahead of tracks by Keli Holiday and Harry Styles.
It features lyrics that mock contemporary progressive politics, including references to trans people, ‘snowflakes’ and woke culture and is a parody version of Valance’s hit single, Kiss Kiss, originally released in 2002.
Lyrics of the song include: ‘MWAH You will respect my pronouns / Not all ladies have ovaries, some have a penis / They say that I’m a he but I’m a she / ‘Cause I gotta V and not a D.
‘And I don’t care what people say / I’ll never be a him, a them or they / ‘Cause I’m a real biological woman / A real biological woman.’
‘It was a bit of fun, and I think sometimes when you can laugh at these things, then you really know it’s all over, when everyone becomes the butt of the joke,’ she said.
Valance was cagey when asked if she had been working with Hanson or One Nation in any other capacity.
‘We’ve been talking for a little while about other things,’ she hinted.
The right-wing former Neighbours star, born Holly Vukadinović, also endorsed One Nation leader Pauline Hanson in the interview with Channel Nine television host Karl Stefanovic
Valance was cagey when asked if she had been working with Hanson or One Nation in any other capacity. ‘We’ve been talking for a little while about other things,’ she hinted. Pictured: Karl Stefanovic
Valance explained that she did not have to face the backlash from the release of the parody song as the UK-based star no longer lives in Australia.
‘I just dropped the grenade and bounced. I didn’t have to deal with it and walk down Chapel Street in Melbourne. The blue hairs will want to get me,’ she joked.
Elsewhere in the interview, Valance lamented that Britain no longer ‘ruled the world’.
‘Britain was top tier civilisation. We are now trying to rewrite the history books, that we are these terrible people and there was slavery. There’s more slavery now than back then, so we need to stop that with that business. It’s insane,’ she said.
‘Look around, look at the architecture, look at the art, the music, the composers, the literature. We should be ruling the world still.’
She added: ‘You’re not allowed to be proud. You can have pride but not that kind. It’s (considered) the wrong kind.’
Valance also recalled her days as a pop star, and insisted that there was no left-wing bent in the entertainment industry in her 1990s and 2000s heyday.
‘We weren’t talking about all the stupid stuff back then. It was just music, tits and a**e, and it was fun. You aren’t allowed to have that now. It’s just they/them and it’s got a little strange,’ she said.
Valance believes Australia is ‘a little bit behind’ the UK in politics, but stood behind Senator Hanson’s messaging. Pictured: Pauline Hanson
When asked why she has chosen to weigh into politics in recent years, Valance blamed ‘my general Tourette’s’ but insisted that her views hold no more weight than the views of those who oppose her.
‘Mine’s no bigger or more important than anyone else’s. I keep that for my weekend white supremacy marches,’ she said.
Valance, a former Neighbours star and singer who is now based in the UK, has in recent years reinvented herself as a vocal supporter of right-wing politics and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
She has undergone quite the metamorphosis in the years since she was propelled to fame as Felicity ‘Flick’ Scully in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
Flick, for those who recall her arrival in 1999, was a right-on schoolgirl with a bit of a feminist streak.
Holly once told her young fans on the BBC’s Newsround that she shared the character’s ‘stubbornness and feistiness’.
These days, that’s about the only similarity they share.
Valance has undergone a series of dramatic transformations in the intervening decades, from actress to pop princess to the wife of billionaire property tycoon Nick Candy and mother of two.
Elsewhere in the interview, Valance lamented that Britain no longer ‘ruled the world’
And now her latest role – the poster girl for the firebrand Right.
After splitting from Candy in June last year following 13 years of marriage, she is growing increasingly close to far-Right rabble-rouser-in-chief – and convicted criminal – Tommy Robinson, founder of the English Defence League, with whom she was pictured on a luxury steam train late last year.
Holly has openly shunned the prospect of joining the Tories, and instead has revealed she would be voting for Reform.
‘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,’ she said after attending Mr Farage’s announcement to stand as an MP.
‘For me it’s Reform, it has been for a little while, so I’m gunning for that. I’m a paid-up member.’
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