She is greatest recognized for her noughties hit singles Kiss Kiss and Naughty Woman, which dominated the charts when she was simply 19. But it surely’s honest to say Holly Valance has modified a lot since she first soared to fame. The 42-year-old has dipped her toe into a number of careers over the previous 20 years, together with music, appearing, and, extra not too long ago, politics.
And her love life is simply as stunning as her profession, with the Aussie saying earlier this month that she has cut up from property billionaire Nick Sweet after 13 years of marriage. With the TV character making waves forward of the festive season, let’s have a look again at her spectacular transformation from a pop princess to her sudden political profession.
Australian roots
Born Holly Rachel Vukadinovic on Could 11, 1983, the TV star hails from Victoria, Australia. It wasn’t till she turned 18 that the actress moved to the UK, earlier than transferring to Los Angeles for seven years.
She ultimately returned to the large smoke, whereas the remainder of her household was nonetheless residing in Australia. Now, she is claimed to separate her time between Melbourne and the UK.
As a youngster, she began modelling, the place she “posed for grocery store catalogues and advert campaigns” and by the age of 14, she was incomes $300 an hour modelling kids#s garments and teenage lingerie.”
Her first style of fame happened in 1999 when she landed the a part of Felicity Scully, a schoolgirl within the Australian cleaning soap opera Neighbours. After three years on the favored Aussie cleaning soap, the actress determined to depart her life on the present behind in 2002 to pursue a music profession.
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Music profession
Holly gained worldwide stardom together with her 2002 hit single “Kiss Kiss,” an English cowl of the Turkish music, Şımarık. It entered each the ARIA Singles and topped the UK singles charts, in addition to touchdown within the prime ten in 17 international locations.
Her second single, Down Boy, peaked at No. 2 within the UK and No. 3 in Australia. Her first album, Footprints, was launched in October 2002 and reached No. 9 within the UK and No. 15 in Australia. The album’s third and last single, Naughty Woman, peaked at No. 3 in Australia and No. 16 within the UK.
Her second album, State of Thoughts, was launched in November 2003 and peaked at No. 8 within the UK and No. 14 in Australia. After her brief however candy music profession, the starlet determined to maneuver on from music and was dropped by her report label, London Recordings, in 2004.
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Performing profession
In 2004, Valance returned to appearing, however this time she moved throughout the pond to the USA. There, she appeared in a number of episodes of the beloved TV collection CSI: Miami and Entourage.
Her largest function was in 2006 when she starred in Jail Break as Nika Volek, a task which she held till the present’s second season. She additionally shared a display with Paris Holton within the Nationwide Lampoon comedy, Pledge This!
In the meantime, on the large display, Holly starred within the 2008 movie franchise Taken alongside Liam Neeson.
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Strictly stint
In 2011, the actress took a break from appearing to compete on the beloved BBC actuality present, Strictly Come Dancing. The TV star was partnered up with skilled dancer Artem Chigvinstev, the place they made all of it the way in which to the semi-finals.
Sadly, the dynamic duo had been pipped to the put up by McFly drummer, Harry Judd, who stormed to victory together with his companion Aliona Vilani. They beat Hollyoaks star Chelsee Healet and Jason Donovan within the last to raise the Glitterball trophy.
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