Holly Valance was spotted wearing a blue cowboy hat and glasses as she attended the Reform UK conference in Birmingham today.
The former soap actress and pop star has become a staunch supporter of Nigel Farage’s party and revealed she could yet stand as one of Reform’s election candidates.
Valance, best known for playing Flick Scully in the television series Neighbours, was strongly tipped to stand for the Reform Party in the Basildon and Billericay constituency in the July general election.
She ultimately did not stand as a candidate in the Essex constituency, telling GB News that her bid to become an MP this summer was “not the right thing for me at the time”.
But the 41-year-old left the door open to running in reformist elections in the future.
Holly Valance was spotted wearing a blue cowboy hat and glasses as she attended the Reform UK conference in Birmingham today.
The former soap actress and pop star has become a keen supporter of Nigel Farage’s party and revealed she could yet stand as one of Reform’s election candidates.
Valance, best known for playing Flick Scully in the television series Neighbours, was strongly considered to stand as the Reform Party candidate in the Basildon and Billericay constituency in the July general election.
The 41-year-old left the door open to being a candidate in reformist elections in the future.
Valance and her husband, property tycoon Nick Candy, were spotted at the Reformation conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham today.
Asked about suggestions she might have stood for election in July, she told Birmingham television today: “I was very kindly asked to consider it.
‘YOI think it’s a very serious and important job. It wasn’t the right thing for me at the time.
“If at some point in the next five years that becomes more realistic, I would consider it again. But right now I’m just supporting from the sidelines.”
He added: ‘It would be better to represent maybe my area, where I know how the community lives, where the crime is, where the things are that are not working for our community.
“So if at some point that happens, that’s fine. But right now it’s not even on my radar.”
Valance also told LBC radio that he had donated around £100,000 to Reform.
She and her husband, property tycoon Nick Candy, were spotted today at the renovation conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham.
There had already been signs of a political split at home, with the billionaire businessman a former Conservative donor who backed Labour in the general election.
Earlier this year, Candy admitted he was “naturally a Conservative” but praised Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as “a decent man with good values” and said it was “time for a change”.
He made the remarks shortly after he and Valance attended the launch of the new Popular Conservatism group.
The married couple listened to speeches from former Prime Minister Liz Truss and former Conservative cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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