Holly Valance: From Aussie pop star to Trump cheerleader

Valance got her break as a teenage Aussie soap star. Now she's fronting fundraising efforts for the Trump campaign.

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Now, two decades later, Holly Valance has become the UK poster girl for 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 the 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.

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