Coleen Nolan

Coleen Nolan

Coleen Nolan (2009)[1]
Born Coleen Patricia Nolan
(1965-03-12) 12 March 1965
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Occupation Singer, author and television presenter
Years active 1974–present
Known for Member of The Nolans
Loose Women panellist
Television Loose Women (2000-11, 2013—)
This Morning (2001-2002, 2010-12)
Spouse(s) Shane Richie (m. 1990–99; divorced)
Ray Fensome (m. 2007)
Children 3 (including Jake Roche)
Parent(s) Tommy Nolan (1925-1998) (deceased)
Maureen Nolan (1926-2007; deceased)
Relatives Bernie Nolan (1960-2013; deceased)
Maureen Nolan (b. 1954)
Linda Nolan (b. 1959)
Tommy Nolan (b. 1949)
Anne Nolan (b. 1950)
Denise Nolan (b. 1952)
Brian Nolan (b. 1955)
Website Official Website

Coleen Patricia Nolan (born 12 March 1965) is an English-born Irish[2] singer, television presenter and author. She came to prominence as the youngest member of the Irish family girl group The Nolans, in which she sang with her sisters. She subsequently became a panelist on the chat show Loose Women from 2000 to 2011. She returned from October 2013 onwards.

As a member of The Nolans, she first performed on television in 1974. She was a full-time member of the group from 1980 to 1994. The group was particularly successful in Japan, where they won the Tokyo Music Festival in 1981 and a Japanese Grammy in 1992. She was a member of the line-up that reformed for a successful tour of the UK and Ireland in 2009.

From 2001–02, Nolan co-presented the ITV daytime show This Morning. She returned to the show from 2010–12, as a presenter of the interactive hub segments. In 2009, she competed in the fourth series of the ITV show Dancing on Ice, where she finished in fourth place. In 2012, she appeared in the 10th series of Channel 5 reality series Celebrity Big Brother, finishing as runner up.

The Nolans

Main article: The Nolans

The Nolans made their television debut in 1974 on the show It's Cliff Richard. With the line-up featuring all six sisters and billed as The Nolan Sisters, they performed Stuck on You. That same year, they released their debut single But I Do, with Coleen singing lead vocals. Due to her age, Coleen would not become a full-time member of the group until 1980, when she was fifteen, although she does appear in the music video to their 1979 hit I'm In the Mood for Dancing, which reached number three in the UK singles chart. They also had UK top twenty hits with, Don't Make Waves (1980), Gotta Pull Myself Together (1980), Who's Gonna Rock You (1981), Attention to Me (1981), Chemistry (1981) and Don't Love Me Too Hard (1982). In 1981, they won the Tokyo Music Festival with the song Sexy Music. In 1992, the group won a Japanese Grammy (Tokubetsu Kikaku Sho award) for best foreign recording artists.

Four of The Nolans (Bernie, Coleen, Linda and Maureen) reformed in 2009 for a UK tour to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of I'm in the Mood for Dancing.[3]

Television

On 5 February 1974, Nolan made her first television appearance with her sisters when she was almost nine years old, as the Nolans appeared on the It's Cliff Richard! television series.[4] On 14 January 1987, she appeared alongside her sisters Anne, Bernie and Maureen in the BBC sitcom Filthy Rich & Catflap.[5]

In 2000, Nolan became a regular panellist on ITV's Loose Women. She remained with the series on and off for eleven years (taking a break to have and care for daughter Ciara).

On 16 March 2011, Nolan announced she would be leaving Loose Women after 11 years on the show,[6] she made her last appearance as a panellist on 28 July 2011.[7] On 7 October 2013, Nolan returned as a regular panellist.[8] Since 7 July 2015, Nolan has occasionally anchored the show, presenting twice in July 2015, once in September, October, November and December 2015, once in January 2016, four times in February 2016 and once in March 2016.

Between 2001 and 2002, Nolan co-presented This Morning on ITV, with John Leslie, on a rota basis with Fern Britton on Monday and Friday mornings.[9] Nolan was initially signed up to co-present with former model Twiggy, who was sacked after working on the show for only a month.

In April 2009, Nolan presented the programme, The Truth About... Eternal Youth about plastic surgery on ITV.

In 2010, Nolan presented The Secret Guide To Women's Health on Sky Real Lives.[10]

In 2000, Nolan played the part of Janelle Cooper in the short comedy film, Rattler.[11]

Beginning on 11 January 2009, Nolan took part in the fourth series of Dancing on Ice on ITV. Of her appearance on the show Nolan said, "I've never really skated. When I was 14, I used to go to Disco Beat in Blackpool with my friend. We'd skate round once, hanging on to each other, and spend the rest of the night posing, like 14-year-old girls do. I could only go forwards, I couldn't stop!"[12] She was eliminated in week ten, finishing in fourth place.

Nolan co-hosted the spin-off show Dancing on Ice Friday with Ben Shephard on ITV.[13]

On 27 February 2011, Nolan hosted Dancing on Ice, in place Holly Willoughby who fell ill.[14]

On 15 August 2012, Nolan was announced as the eleventh celebrity to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house on Channel 5.[15] On 7 September 2012, she was declared the runner-up of the series.[16]

In 2013, Nolan was a resident agony aunt on the ITV chat show The Alan Titchmarsh Show, appearing on the show every Friday.

On 6 September 2010, Nolan made her return to This Morning, presenting segments in the interactive Hub, but left on 13 June 2012.[17] In 2011, she presented This Morning Summer with Paddy McGuinness.

In 2015, Coleen took part in ITV's Give a Pet a Home series which worked alongside the RSPCA in Birmingham.[18] The show began airing in April 2015, with Amanda Holden as host.

In 2016 Coleen returned to This Morning replacing Denise Robertson who was the shows Agony aunt, Coleen will be talking over the role along side Alison Hammond as the shows Interim Agony aunts.

Guest appearances

On 4 March 2002, Nolan was a panellist on BBC panel game show Never Mind the Buzzcocks.[19] On 25 May she appeared on An Audience with Brian Conley.[20] Later in 2002, she took part in the first series of the reality television programme Celebrity Fit Club, which followed overweight celebrities as they tried to lose weight for charity.[21]

On 7 January 2003, Nolan appeared in the documentary We Are Family that chronicled the success stories of various musical acts that were made up of family members.[22] In 2002 and 2003, she was a panellist on the chat show The Wright Stuff on Five and guest hosted the show herself in 2013.[21]

On 3 June 2005 Nolan took part in the first series of the ITV daytime programme, Have I Been Here Before? presented by Phillip Schofield, which offered celebrity guests the chance to see if they have lived before, through past life regression. Nolan was said to have been a "nervous 16-year old debutante".[23]

In September 2006, Nolan returned to Celebrity Fit Club as part of the judging panel in the fourth series. On 6 October, she was a guest on The Sharon Osbourne Show and, ten days later, was a guest on the Irish chat show, broadcast and produced by RTÉ, The Podge and Rodge Show.[21]

On 19 September, Nolan appeared on Al Murray's Happy Hour[21] and on 27 September, she appeared with her family on the third series of All Star Family Fortunes competing against Barry McGuigan and his family. She has also made guest appearances on Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong (31 October) and The Paul O'Grady Show (18 December), both on Channel 4.[21]

On 13 September 2012 she was a guest panellist on an episode of Celebrity Juice on ITV2.

On 15 February 2013, Nolan stood in for Matthew Wright as host of The Wright Stuff on Channel 5.

Other work

Nolan has a weekly column in Best magazine[24] and a parenting column in the Daily Mirror.[25]

In 2007, Nolan featured in television advertisements for the supermarket chain Iceland, along with her sister Bernie and former Loose Women colleague Kerry Katona. She appeared in further commercials for Iceland during the next couple of years.

Nolan was the new face of Park Christmas Savings and appeared in their television advertisements in December 2010.

In early 2008, she released a DVD, A Brand New You, produced with Rosemary Conley.[12]

Personal life

Nolan was born and brought up in Blackpool to Irish parents.[26] She is the youngest of eight children and the only one born in England. She married Shane Richie in 1990, and they had two sons, Shane Roche Jr (born 2 December 1988) and Jake Roche (born 16 September 1992) together before splitting up in 1997[27] and divorcing in 1999. She gave birth to a daughter, Ciara, on 19 June 2001 and became engaged to her longtime boyfriend Ray Fensome (a musician who is from Leeds)[12] when he proposed on her 40th birthday in 2005. They married in November 2007.

Nolan has undertaken charity work for the Alzheimer's Society, including cycling the River Nile in Egypt. Her late mother, Maureen, was a sufferer. In 2006 Nolan opened the first Alzheimer's Society information centre on the Fylde coast.[28]

Nolan's mother died on 30 December 2007.[29]

Controversies

Nolan has gained media attention at times for controversial statements and opinions. In 2005, on Loose Women she claimed that if her 16-year-old son passed his exams then she would pay for him to go on a sex trip to Amsterdam and that she had given her fiancé Ray Fensome permission to have a one-night stand during the proposed trip. She was criticised by Shane Richie, who said he was "disgusted and appalled" by her comments about their son, and that he hoped and assumed "it was said in total jest. I can assure everyone that having passed his GCSEs fingers crossed Shane Jr will not be going to Amsterdam". English doctor and author Miriam Stoppard said of Nolan's comments, "the world's gone insane" and claimed that Nolan seemed to be shirking her responsibilities to deliver sex education. However, Nolan defended her comments saying that she had told her son that she would pay for a long weekend for him anywhere in the world and that he had mentioned how he and his mates had "always wanted to go to Amsterdam to see the red light district. If he planned to go on a trip to Ibiza everybody would have thought that was fine, even though he would probably have unprotected sex with lots of girls."[27][30] In the News of the World newspaper she said, "In an ideal world I'd never condone my son sleeping with hookers, but it's a fact of life that boys of his age have casual sex. So if I'm pushed, I'd rather he does it somewhere well-policed and where the girls have health checks than behind the wall of a club in Ibiza with absolutely no safeguards." And added about her comments about Fensome, "In all honesty, I couldn't care less [if he does]. What bothers me more is the thought of Ray going into a bar, chatting up a really stunning girl, having sex with her, spending the night and waking up with her the next morning. I couldn't cope with that."[31]

In January 2007, Nolan courted further controversy when, during a debate on Loose Women about gay adoption, she stated that gay people should not be allowed to adopt children,[32] and said that "there's only so much I want to accept".[33][34]

In May 2015, she sparked outrage from viewers by comparing gay rights with supporting ISIS and by saying that bakery owners should be permitted to discriminate against same-sex couples who wish to buy a wedding cake. Her comments were made on Loose Women after a Belfast bakery company was successfully sued for discriminating against a gay customer. Following the show, viewers took to Twitter and called for ITV to fire Nolan for making the comments.[34][35][36]

Bibliography

Biography

Novels

General non-fiction

Filmography

Television Shows
Year Title Role Notes
1974 It's Cliff Richard! Herself Single episode
1987 Filthy Rich & Catflap Herself Single episode
2000–2011, 2013— Loose Women Panellist Series regular
2001 This Morning Presenter Series regular
2002 Never Mind the Buzzcocks Herself Single episode
An Audience with Brian Conley Herself Single episode
Celebrity Fit Club Participant Series regular
2002, 2003 The Wright Stuff Panelist Guest appearances
2003 We Are Family Herself Single episode
2005 Have I Been Here Before? Participant Single episode
2006 Celebrity Fit Club Judge Series regular
The Sharon Osbourne Show Herself Single episode
The Podge and Rodge Show Herself Single episode
2008 Al Murray's Happy Hour Herself Single episode
All Star Family Fortunes Participant Single episode
Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong Herself Single episode
The Paul O'Grady Show Herself Single episode
2009 Dancing on Ice Participant Series regular
The Truth About... Eternal Youth Presenter Single episode
2010 The Secret Guide To Women's Health Presenter Series regular
Dancing on Ice: Friday Presenter Spin-off series from Dancing on Ice
2010–2012 This Morning Presenter The Hub segments
2011 Dancing on Ice Presenter Single episode
Sing If You Can Guest Judge Single episode
2012 Celebrity Big Brother Participant Series regular, runner up
2013 The Alan Titchmarsh Show Agony Aunt Series regular
2015 Give a Pet a Home Celebrity participant 1 series, 6 episodes
2016- This Morning Interim Agony aunt along side Alison Hammond
Videos
Year Title Role Notes
2008 A Brand New You Herself DVD
Coleen Nolan's Disco Burn Herself Fitness DVD
Television Advertisement
Year Title Role Notes
2007–2009 Iceland Herself
2010 Park Christmas Savings Herself
2014– Three UK Herself

References

  1. ↑ "June 2009 cover - Coleen Nolan" (PDF). Dartford Living. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Coleen Nolan opens up about sister Bernie's cancer battle". Hello Magazine. 8 May 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Ultimate girl band the Nolans return with a brand new look". Daily Mirror. UK. 15 June 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
  4. ↑ ""It's Cliff Richard" Episode dated 5 February 1974 (1974)". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 6 February 2007. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  5. ↑ ""Filthy Rich & Catflap" Episode #1.2 (1987)". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 10 May 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  6. ↑ Coleen Nolan quits Loose Women after 10 years The Mirror, 16 March 2011
  7. ↑ Coleen Nolan's final Loose Women: 'This show has been my life' Alex Fletcher, Digital Spy, 28 July 2011
  8. ↑ "Coleen Nolan, Kaye Adams return to 'Loose Women'". Digital Spy.
  9. ↑ Conlan, Tara (17 August 2001). "Good morning, says Twiggy". Daily Mail (UK). Retrieved 1 March 2009.
  10. ↑ "Secret Guide to Women's Health". British Sky Broadcasting. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  11. ↑ "Rattler (2000)". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 17 April 2008. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  12. 1 2 3 "Icely does it". Blackpool Gazette. 13 January 2009.
  13. ↑ ""Dancing on Ice Friday" (2010)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  14. ↑ Coleen Nolan to present Dancing on Ice tonight as poor Holly falls ill OK! Magazine, 27 February 2011
  15. ↑ Coleen Nolan enters CBB Virgin Media, 15 August 2012
  16. ↑ Coleen Nolan comes second in Celebrity Big Brother, but she's the most successful lady in the series Rachael Wheeler, the Mirror, 7 September 2012
  17. ↑ Last morning: Coleen Nolan bows out of This Morning role after two years Simon Boyle, The Mirror, 14 June 2012
  18. ↑ "Julian Clary, Peter Andre, Kimberly Wyatt for ITV's Give a Pet a Home". Digital Spy.
  19. ↑ ""Never Mind the Buzzcocks" Episode #10.9 (2002)". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  20. ↑ "An Audience with Brian Conley (2002) (TV)". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  21. 1 2 3 4 5 "Coleen Nolan". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 13 February 2009. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  22. ↑ "We Are Family (2003) (TV)". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 25 July 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  23. ↑ ""Have I Been Here Before?" Episode #1.15 (2005)". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 26 April 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  24. ↑ Gallagher, Rachael (14 November 2007). "IPC's Woman magazine hosts first celebrity wedding". Press Gazette. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  25. ↑ "Coleen Nolan – Life & Style Columnist". Daily Mirror (UK). Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  26. ↑ "Blackpool outraged after Coleen Nolan slur". the Mirror. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  27. 1 2 Kirby, Jane (3 June 2005). "Nolan defends offer to pay for son's sex trip". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  28. ↑ "Famous sisters are backing charity". Blackpool Gazette. 18 April 2008. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
  29. ↑ "Nolan family mourns death of mother". Blackpool Gazette. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  30. ↑ Wilkes, Neil (2 June 2005). "Richie appalled by Nolan's hooker plan". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
  31. ↑ Wilkes, Neil (6 June 2005). "Coleen Nolan defends prostitute promise". Digital Spy. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
  32. ↑ "Media Monitor Log". Loose Women ITV1 (Stonewall). 30 January 2008. Archived from the original on 24 June 2007. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  33. ↑ TV Series: Loose Women (episode: 29 January 2007). ITV Studios (Prod: Alan Boyle). 2007
  34. 1 2 Love, Ryan (19 May 2015). "Loose Women's Coleen Nolan shocks with gay rights, Isis support comparison". DigitalSpy. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  35. ↑ Percival, Ashley (19 May 2015). "Coleen Nolan Sparks Outrage On 'Loose Women' By Appearing To Compare Gay Rights With Supporting ISIS". Huffington Post. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  36. ↑ McCormick, Joseph Patrick (19 May 2015). "Loose Women's Coleen Nolan compares gay rights cake to 'ISIS cake'". Pink News. Retrieved 19 May 2015.

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Richard and Judy		 Host of This Morning
with Twiggy
2001 		Succeeded by
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