Holly Valance kissed off with GB News

It takes some doing to be censored by proudly anti-woke TV station GB News – and particularly by its deliberately provocative Free Speech Nation show – but it’s happened… to former Neighbours actress and sometime pop star Holly Valance.

The Australian had her knuckles rapped this week by Josh Howie after using the word “r**ard” in an interview to promote new single Kiss Kiss (XX) My Arse, recorded for the soundtrack of a new film by the far right politician Pauline Hanson.

After telling the host how “I never really guessed it, during Covid it was the big tester. It was the ‘r**ard meter’. And Australia was quite high on that,” Vallance was stopped by Howie, who apologised for the singer’s language. When she asked “Hey, are we not Free Speech Nation over here?”, Howie responded: “We are free speech,” before adding: “Except for that word.”

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Valance, who last year split from Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy after 13 years of marriage, has recorded the right wing rant for Hanson’s new cartoon film A Super Progressive Movie, an anti-woke “satire” in which a man called Pete is sent to death row by a “Feelings-Based Court” for the crime of being a “cisgender straight white male”.

Valance’s contribution Kiss Kiss (XX) My Arse, which features backing vocals by Hanson, is a rant against progressives, with lyrics including “White guilt is embedded in my genes/Got flags in my bio, take the knee/Fave song – From the River to the Sea/No job, but I bleed LGBT (Q+ ya bigot)”. Elsewhere she complains: “We’ve got two dads on every TV ad/No one wants a hetero, cos they’re contraband.”

GB News also made an error in their interview, introducing her as an “international pop sensation”. Valance has not had a hit single anywhere for 23 years, and her last album was so long ago its release date coincided with Iain Duncan Smith’s last day as leader of the Conservative Party.