Holly Valance’s anti-woke track flies to the highest of iTunes chart in Australia overtaking Olivia Dean and Harry Styles – as Neighbours star overcomes Apple Music pulling the track from its platform

Holly Valance has said that those who banned her anti-woke song don’t have ‘enough brain cells’ after it soared to the top of an iTunes chart ahead of Harry Styles and Olivia Dean.    

The Neighbours star’s recent tune ‘Kiss Kiss (XX) My A**e’ was briefly banned by Apple after it reached No.1 on the best-selling songs chart following its release on Australia Day.

The song was reinstated after the ban sparked a fierce backlash, but Valance said the controversy only helped to promote the song. 

‘There’s not enough brain cells between them. But it’s helping me enormously so thank you very much,’ Valance told The Kyle & Jackie O show last week. 

The song is currently number 8 in Australia’s iTunes top songs chart.  

The song – which is a soundtrack to Pauline Hanson‘s new film, A Super Progressive Movie – is a reworked version of Valance’s 2002 hit Kiss Kiss and features lyrics taking aim at trans issues, ‘snowflakes’ and ‘cancel culture’.

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.’

Valance found fame in the late 1990s and early noughties playing Flick Scully on Neighbours, going on to land various TV roles and release her own music.

Yet three-decades on from bursting into the spotlight, Valance pivoted into a very different career: politics. 

In recent years, she has rebranded as a right-wing political activist, throwing her support behind Reform UK and far-right, anti-Islamist Tommy Robinson after leaving her native Australia because it ‘went big on woke stuff’. 

Such is her influence that there have been calls for Valance to stand as an MP in the UK, while over in America she has enjoyed meetings with Donald Trump, who she described as ‘fabulous’. 

It’s quite the change for the former performer, who by her own admission was once a proud liberal. 

That was until she said she ‘woke up’ to all of the ‘crap ideas’ of the ‘lefties’ and reinvented herself as a conservative firebrand. 

This week, she made headlines again for using a slur about people with learning disabilities during a debate about the pandemic.

Valance told host Josh Howie on Free Speech Nation on Monday: ‘During Covid was the big like tester to see… like the retard meter. And Australia was quite high on that.’

Howie quickly apologised for her use of the term ‘retard’ and said: ‘Sorry for using that word, but that’s okay, but… I think some people unfortunately might be offended.’

Unapologetic, Valance said: ‘Hey, are we not Free Speech Nation over here? Where am I?’.

Valance’s rapid rise to become a poster girl for the right and an anti-woke crusader dates back to 2022, when Nigel Farage posted a picture on social media of her meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

Indeed, it was through Farage that she met Trump when he invited her and her then-property tycoon billionaire husband Nick Candy to Palm Beach, Florida. 

The dinner meet-up sparked an angry backlash from her fans, who threatened to boycott her music.

But her views did not surprise Farage, with whom she had been discussing them for the last decade. 

‘She kept quiet for many, many years,’ he said, who had warned Valance that ‘once you go public there’s no way back’. 

How right he was, and in an interview with GB News at Liz Truss’ PopCon launch in 2024, Valance said: ‘Everyone starts off as a leftie and then wakes up at some point, whether after you start making money, working, trying to run a business, trying to buy a home, then realises what ‘c**p’ ideas they all are and then you go to the right.’ 

During the same interview, she backed Jacob Rees-Mogg for Prime Minister.

Months later, the Kiss Kiss singer was at a Chelsea townhouse to host a Donald Trump election fundraiser. 

Farage declared the evening ‘a Holly party – you can guarantee it’s going to be enormous fun’. 

Valance would later credit herself for the Reform leader changing his mind to stand for MP at the General Election and said she had been ‘whispering in his ear for a long time’. 

She said she gave the party ‘a substantial cheque’ when Farage announced he was standing. 

Her close relationship with the Clacton MP saw her ‘say a few words’ at his 60th birthday party where she described him as ‘one of the bravest men I know’. 

The Tories were at one stage clambering for her to stand as an MP for the party in 2024, with an insider saying she could be their ‘secret weapon’. 

Valance shunned the prospect of joining the Tories, and instead 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.’

There were even suggestions she would stand as a candidate for Reform in the Tory safe seat of Basildon and Billericay, in Essex, but mother-of-two Valance turned down the opportunity.

‘It’s not going to work for me – it was very difficult logistics wise,’ she said. 

Conservative chairman Richard Holden held the seat for the Tories, beating Labour by 20 votes. Reform’s Stephen Conlay finished closely behind in third. 

Her tongue-lashing of Greta Thunberg endeared her further to the right when in 2024 she called the climate activist a ‘demonic little gremlin’. 

‘I don’t understand why you have this, like, demonic little gremlin high priestess of climatism as the goddess in classrooms, Greta,’ she told Chopper’s Political Podcast.

‘All the kids are all coming home with depression and anxiety.

‘Why would you go to your music lesson or bother doing your homework or get out of your bed if you think we’re all going to be dead in five years anyway?’

The Melbourne-born actress grew up in Australia with her Serbian father, Rajko Vukadinovic, and her British mother Rachel Stephens. 

She moved to Britain in 2018 and briefly moved to LA before heading back to the UK again to live with Mr Candy, whom she split from last year.   

She has declared she has no intention of moving back to her Australian homeland, lamenting that the country is going ‘woke’.

‘The Australia I grew up in was unreal. It was so fun and we didn’t seem to have all these problems… the woke stuff’s really gone big in Australia,’ she said.

She later elaborated on the ‘woke culture’, pointing toward ‘the stuff they’re teaching in school’: ‘I don’t think sexuality and children should be in the same sentence. I don’t think anyone’s sexuality is anyone’s business. You don’t know about mine. I don’t know about yours. Why would we?’

Valance starred in several popular US movies and TV shows, including Taken, Entourage and Prison Break.

She semi-retired from the industry in 2015, although she made a brief cameo on Neighbours in 2022.

Valance appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2011 where she reached the semi-finals with dance partner Artem Chigvintsev.