EXCLUSIVE Holly Valance, 42, SPLITS from billionaire property tycoon husband Nick Candy, 52, after years of living separate lives
Holly Valance has split from billionaire property tycoon husband Nick Candy after 13 years of marriage and a long time living separate lives MailOnline can reveal.
The ex Neighbours actress, 42, who has reinvented herself as a conservative firebrand, is said to have been left lonely while the Reform Party treasurer, 52, tends to his business ventures around the world.
A source told MailOnline: 'They have been living separate lives for a long time, he's travelling a lot and it's been a lonely life for Holly.
'Nick has businesses in Dubai and London, The Reform Party.'
The couple are parents to daughters Luka, 11, and Nova, seven, and tied the knot back in September 2012 in Beverly Hills.
A spokesman for the couple said: 'This is a private matter and we will not be making any further comment.'
The estranged couple were last pictured together in March, with Holly dressed in £10K of designer clothing as they enjoyed a swanky lunch together in London.
They wed in 2012 a lavish £3million ceremony with guests including Elton John, Simon Cowell as well as Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
Together they have enjoyed a lavish lifestyle and previously lived in a two-storey Hyde Park penthouse worth £175million, making it Britain's most expensive flat.
Nick and Holly have since downsized to a £10million countryside mansion in the Cotswolds, which they have been renovating.
In 2020, Nick gifted Holly with a £26million superyacht, despite the mother-of-two famously suffering from sea sickness.
The businessman who previously poured millions into Conservative coffers, became Farage's party treasurer earlier this year.
Both he and his former singer and actress wife have made little secret of their support for Farage.
As far ago as 2022 they joined him and then incoming US president Donald Trump for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
A source told MailOnline: 'They have been living separate lives for a long time, he's travelling a lot and it's been a lonely life for Holly'
As far ago as 2022 the former couple joined Farage and then incoming US president Donald Trump for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florid
Holly also hosted fundraisers for Reform and they were in the audience when Farage returned as Party leader last year.
The former soap star has spent the last decade focusing on her personal life and political interests.
She launched her acting career in 1999 after winning the role of Felicity Scully in Neighbours, which she played until 2002.
The Melbourne-born actress later moved to America and 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.
She raised eyebrows last year after slamming Greta Thunberg as a 'demonic little gremlin' and claiming Australia has become 'too woke' in a TV interview.
Holly criticised climate activist Thunberg to podcast host Christopher Hope.
'I don't understand why you have this, like, demonic little gremlin high priestess of climatism as the goddess in classrooms, Greta [Thunberg],' she said.
'All the kids are all coming home with depression and anxiety.
She Valance also told LBC radio she had donated around £100,000 to Reform.
She and Candy were both seen at the Reform conference at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre.
There have previously been signs of a political split in their household, with the billionaire businessman a former Tory donor who backed Labour at the general election, before jumping ship join his wife and Reform.
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