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Former glamour model Katie Price has begged to return to Loose Women despite slamming her former co-stars after appearing on the ITV panel from 2015 to 2018

Katie Price has declared she wants to return to Loose Women despite slamming her exit from the show.

The former glamour model, 45, admitted she wants to go back to the ITV daytime show as a presenter. She was a regular panelist on the programme from 2015 to 2018. Katie has since re-shared a social media post of an episode from March 18, 2018 where she appeared on the panel alongside Vicky Pattison, Linda Robson and Andrea McLean.

The admission comes just days after she was declared bankrupt for a second time after dodging court six times over her £3.2million debt.

Alongside the throwback snap, Katie wrote: “I should go back as a presenter.” Last month, Loose Women’s Linda Robson revealed Katie is desperate to be allowed back on the show. Writing in her new book Truth Be Told, Linda said: “I love Katie Price but sometimes I think she deliberately tries to shock. I did an awards show with her once where we were both supposed to be presenting together but no one could find her anywhere.

“She eventually turned up with minutes to spare. When we got out on the stage, she started talking about herself and I had to tell her, ‘Oi! It ain’t about you today. Whenever I bump into her now, she tells me how she wants to come back to Loose Women. And I say, ‘But, Katie, you can’t f*** ing behave yourself, can you?’”

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Linda confessed she worries about Katie, and that the mum-of-five “used to sleep in the car on her way in and would arrive in her pyjamas and get dressed when she got there”. She added: “She always made plenty of headlines whenever she was on, though.” After leaving the show back in 2018, Katie revealed that she felt let down by the ITV team. It came at the time of her ex-husband Kieran Hayler’s affair and her mum’s terminal illness diagnosis.

Katie told the Changes With Annie Macmanus podcast in 2021: “I was doing Loose Women for two years. When I look back at that it makes me feel sick. You had me at my worst. You had me when mentally I was really going through it, which is weird because some people wouldn’t have you on the show like ‘no you are not well enough’. In fact, I wasn’t well. I wasn’t well but I was still able to perform like a seal.”

Just last year Katie slammed her former co-stars when she was asked by sister Sophie if she would ever consider returning. Speaking on The Katie Price show podcast, she said: “I’m gonna throw it back, the question is would they ever have me back on?” Her son Junior made a Loose Women appearance last summer to discuss his upbringing with famous parents, Katie and Peter Andre.

Katie added: “Although they did p**s me off when Junior was on it, not even asking a question, ‘how is your mum’ and all of that – very disrespectful. But, would I be a presenter on it? To be honest, I’ve been there and done that so probably not, no I don’t want to be a presenter on Loose Women again, so I would turn that down.” While speaking on TikTok, Katie claimed that the panellists “hated” her.

Loose Women star Denise Welch defended Nikita Kuzmin over his Celebrity Big Brother row with Fern Britton as she called out the ‘passive aggressiveness’ of one star

Loose Women star Denise Welch has hit out at Fern Britton over her comments to Nikita Kuzmin on Celebrity Big Brother.

Denise said she “felt sorry for” Nikita after he was left confused by a run-in with Fern in a recent episode. Fern appeared to call out a comment Nikita had made to her earlier in the week, which she took offence to, suggesting he was being ageist.

She appeared to think Nikita was seeing her as old and like she needed things to be explained to her. He was baffled as to where her remarks had come from, before explaining she had taken it the wrong way in awkward scenes.

Fern said to him: “You and I get on alright when we’re playing games. Can I tell you? How old are you now?” Nikita answered “26” with Fern replying: “When you’re 66, you’ll have exactly the same brain which is why you have to understand that I’ve still got a 26 year old brain.”

Baffled, Nikita then asked Fern: “I’m a bit confused about this?” Fern then explained to the professional dancer: “You shouldn’t be confused. You never change your brain. Everything is hilarious – all bum jokes, all c**k jokes. Everything is still as it is when you’re 66.”

Denise said she ‘felt sorry for’ Nikita, after he was left confused by a run-in with Fern ( 
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Not understanding where the conversation was going, a perplexed Nikita then asked Fern: “Are we having a beef? What’s happening?” “I’m just saying never look at an old person and think they’re old,” Fern insisted to her fellow housemate.

“We’re still in our heads 26.” Still confused, Nikita asked: “Referring to?” to which Fern told him: “When you said to me the other day, you were very sweet. ‘I like your stripy top, stripes are in fashion Fern.’ Bless you, you were passing me a compliment but also saying ‘actually they’re in fashion’ as if it was a surprise to me. It wasn’t a surprise.”

Discussing the moment amid rumours of a feud between her and TV presenter Fern, Denise defended Nikita as she called out Fern for being “passive aggressive” and faking a smile as she did so. Denise suggested Nikita did nothing wrong and had not meant his comments the way they were perceived.

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She said on Loose Women: “I know it’s a heated environment and emotions are heightened, and you feel very vulnerable. Sometimes there are reactions when you’re in there that people watching think are over the top, but actually you’re away from everything and everybody that you love.

However if there’s one type of behaviour that I cannot stand it’s passive aggressive behaviour. The definition is indirectly expressing negative feelings instead of addressing them.

“I cant bear anything that’s done behind a sickly painted smile. I felt very sorry for Nikita because I genuinely think it wasn’t ageist. I think it was because he nominated her four times and she didn’t like it, and I felt sorry for him. I don’t think he’s got a mean bone in his body in there and knowing him a little on the outside.”

The broadcaster shared her emotional struggle with her late mother’s deteriorating health before breaking down in tears as the cast of Loose Women remembered Paul O’Grady.

A year has raced by since Paul O’Grady drew his last breath at the age of 67 years old due to cardiac arrhythmia and Loose Women stars have decided to stroll down memory lane as they paid tribute to the comedian – and recalled their own experiences with grief.

Speaking to her co-stars and viewers, Charlene White remembered her immense struggle following the death of her late mother Dorrett, who passed away from bowel cancer at 47 years old, before breaking down in tears.

The broadcaster and mum-of-two explained that her pregnancy with her son Alfie was particularly harrowing as she faced motherhood while finding herself trying to cope without the person who could have supported her in her new chapter.

She first explained that, upon finding out she was pregnant, Charlene “was fine” but grief caught up with her unexpectedly.

The broadcaster and mum-of-two explained that her pregnancy with her son Alfie was particularly harrowing as she faced motherhood while finding herself trying to cope without the person who could have supported her in her new chapter.

She first explained that, upon finding out she was pregnant, Charlene “was fine” but grief caught up with her unexpectedly.

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“I was fine about it, I took the test, I was completely fine with it. But there was a moment, when I started showing and I was in the bath”, she remembered, “I was looking at bump in my belly and it hit me that I was going to have to learn to be a mother when I was motherless.”

Charlene insisted that she had been accustomed to taking care of others as she helped her mother raise her brother and sister, but she had no experience taking care of a new-born.

“The one person that I needed to guide through this really massive moment in my life wasn’t there”, the 43-year-old continued, “that’s the one moment where I completely lost it and I just cried and cried.”

“I couldn’t stop because grief presents itself when you least expect it and when I gave birth to Alfie, it’s that realisation that your mum is the only person you’ll physically connect to.”

Charlene remembered other women who tried to fill the void left by Dorrett, but she was unable to accept their support and “pushed them away.”

“No one knows me like my mum so if I needed help, my mum would just know”, she insisted. “I need to know how to do this by myself and as hard as that it is, I have no choice.”

Charlene’s mother passed away when she was still a teenager ( 
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In another breath, Charlene admitted she’d felt jealous of those who welcomed their children with their mothers by their sides but as she did so, emotion overwhelmed her and she choked back a few tears before being comforted by her ITV co-stars.

The popular TV host was only a 16-year-old teenager when her mother was first diagnosed with bowel cancer, as she revealed on the set of Lorraine in 2023, and, in a devastating twist, an early blood test could have been life-changing.

“Part of the reason my mum didn’t go to that appointment was because she got caught up with parenting. If she went for that early blood test it could of saved her life”, she told Lorraine Kelly at the time.

This has since led to her stressing the importance of an early diagnosis as she urged people to “check before they flush.”

Former co-stars Denise Welch and Fern Britton seemingly didn’t strike up a friendship away from work, as the Loose Women panelist continues to take swipes at the Celebrity Big Brother star

Denise Welch seemingly won’t be voting for Fern Britton to win Celebrity Big Brother on Friday night, as the Loose Women star continues to throw some subtle shade Fern’s way on social media.

Rumours of a feud between the two women began earlier this week, thanks to Denise appearing to take aim at Fern on Twitter (X). As Fern received a bit of backlash from Celebrity Big Brother fans, former Coronation Street star Denise tweeted: “The mask is slip sliding away #CBBUK.”

Fans were quick to suspect Fern was the housemate Denise was referring to with her tweet, with one replying to the star and declaring: “There’s something about her that’s very insincere to me. I don’t know her though but there’s just something, can’t put my finger on it.”

Denise, who won the Channel 5 version of Celebrity Big Brother back in 2012, has also been liking negative tweets about Fern, including one which reads: “Please get Fern out can’t stand the fake crying anymore.” Another critical tweet liked by Denise reads: “Fern again being passive aggressive, she does it in a low tone, but it’s so obvious.”

Taking to social media once again last night, Denise appeared to be disappointed Fern wasn’t the one to get the boot by Celebrity Big Brother viewers, as TV presenter Zeze Millz and Broadway Marisha Wallace were evicted from the famous house just days before the big final

“Gutted!!! #CBBUK,” Denise wrote to her 556,300 Twitter followers as Fern survived another public vote. “Who is saving Fern? She’s so sly and passive aggressive, I’m truly baffled,” one Twitter user replied, with Denise going on to like a tweet reading: “Louis calling Fern a ‘fucking cow’ and saying he didn’t care is A MOOD. #CBBUK.”

Fern Britton and Denise Welch worked together in 2018 as they both appeared in the Calendar Girls musical
It’s not known why Denise doesn’t particularly like Fern. The pair shared a stage together back in 2018, when they both appeared in a touring production of Calendar Girls the Musical. Inspired by the 2003 hit film, the musical saw Denise play Celia, while Fern took on the role of Marie.

Last night’s episode of Celebrity Big Brother saw Fern and Strictly Come Dancing star Nikita Kuzmin clash heads thanks to a stripy top and a misplaced comment. As the housemates sat around the sofas, Fern asked Nikita how old he is. When he replied “26”, she told him: “When you’re 66, you’ll have exactly the same brain which is why you have to understand that I’ve still got a 26 year old brain.”

Nikita was left puzzled by this and told Fern: “I’m a bit confused about this.” Fern tried to clear things up, telling Nikita: “You shouldn’t be confused. You never change your brain. Everything is hilarious – all bum jokes, all c**k jokes. Everything is still as it is when you’re 66.” But Nikita was still lost, asking Fern: “Are we having a beef? What’s happening?”

Fern explained: “I’m just saying never look at an old person and think they’re old,” she told him. “We’re still in our heads 26.” Nikita was still unsure, asking: “Referring to?” Fern clarified: “When you said to me the other day, you were very sweet. ‘I like your stripy top, stripes are in fashion Fern.’ Bless you, you were passing me a compliment but also saying ‘actually they’re in fashion’ as if it was a surprise to me. It wasn’t a surprise.”

Denise liked a number of tweets from Celebrity Big Brother viewers taking Nikita’s side last night. One tweet liked by Denise reads: “sorry but fern literally tried to make nikita look bad in front of the house and then told him when they were alone that she wasn’t bothered by what he said?? he was just being nice?? unfair actually #cbbuk.”

Mirror Online has reached out to Denise’s reps for comment.

Loose Women panellist Jane Moore walked off the ITV show on Friday after a discussion over Celebrity Big Brother’s backdoor eviction for Bradley Riches and the art of saying goodbye

Jane Moore walked off Loose Women on Friday after admitting she’s not a fan of goodbyes.

Host Kaye Adams and panellists Jane, Nadia Sawalha and Judi Love were discussing whether they are “good at goodbyes” following the shock exit of Bradley Riches, which saw the actor leave the show without a live eviction. Judi admitted she was left emotional watching the sad scenes as Bradley was told he had been voted out after being duped into thinking he was meeting a loved one.

He then quickly said goodbye to his housemates before leaving the Celebrity Big Brother house. Jane found the reaction to the Heartstopper actor’s exit amusing and quipped: “They’ll all see each again at the wrap party!”

Kaye pointed out that Jane isn’t one for long goodbyes and often leaves engagements without saying goodbye at all. Recalling an example of an abrupt exit, Kaye said: “It was a theatre production and there was a whole bunch of people there.

Jane was there with her friend and the production finishes, everyone claps, the friend looks across to Jane to see she’s gone.” Justifying the lack of goodbye, Jane said: “I don’t want to get stuck in that queue going out of the theatre so I go out quickly. I thought she was behind me but she didn’t follow me.”

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Interrupting, Kaye said: “We’ve got to go to the break – I have no idea whether Jane’s going to be here when we come back,” as Nadia added: “It’s a great tip for young people, just leave.”

Jane then stood up and walked away from the Loose Women panel disappearing behind the set. The Loose Women star had returned to her seat when the show returned from the ad break.

Earlier in the week, Loose Women panellist Denise Welch hit out at Fern Britton after she clashed with Nikita Kuzmin. The former This Morning presenter told the Strictly Come Dancing pro she wasn’t happy with an earlier comment he had made about her outfit, which she viewed as a backhanded compliment.

Denise fumed: “If there’s one type of behaviour I cannot stand, it’s passive aggressive behaviour. The definition of it is indirectly expressing negative opinions instead of addressing them and I can’t bare anything that’s done behind a sickly painted smile.”

She continued: “I felt very sorry for Nikita because I genuinely think it wasn’t ageist, I think it was because he nominated her four times and she didn’t like it and I felt sorry for him. I don’t think he’s got a mean bone in his body, in there and knowing him a little bit outside.”

The Loose Women star, 36, revealed the sad news on Instagram as she said her nan was ‘finally at peace’ and had ‘got her angel wings’

Christine McGuinness has shared her heartbreak as she revealed her nan had died over the Easter weekend.

The Loose Women star, 36, revealed the sad news on Instagram as she said her nan was “finally at peace” and had “got her angel wings”. Sharing a sweet photo of her nan smiling with her hair decorated with a fascinator, writing: “My Nan got her angel wings. I know wherever she is, she will be knitting and watching LFC Finally at peace.”

Among those paying their condolences was Denise Welch, who posted three heart emojis in the comments. While another wrote: “Oh noooo! Condolences to all the Tracey family. I was born and raised in Halewood and I knew your Nan well. Godbless you all and RIP Mrs Tracey. I hope your mum is as well as can be.” A third commented: “So sorry for your loss. A beautiful lady and lovely picture. X”

Christine’s loss has come during a difficult time for the TV personality, who has recently opened up about trying to find her ‘path’ in life following the split from her ex-husband, Paddy McGuinness. Despite the split, the couple still live together in the Cheshire home but live separate lives. They share two children, Leo and Penelope, 10, who have both been diagnosed with autism.

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Christine McGuinness has been rocked by the death of her nan ( 
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Christine McGuinness has said that she hasn’t found her path since her split from Paddy McGuinness ( 
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While appearing Pilgrimage: The Road Through North Wales, Christine spoke openly about her future. She said: “The only life I’ve known is with Patrick and I’m not sure what my path is now I’m on my own. I need to figure it out. Patrick and I have been separated for almost two years now, but I don’t think I’ve dealt with the separation completely yet and I know that one day I’m going to have to do that.”

Christine has also opened up on Loose Women telling the panel why she has decided to stay single since her split from Paddy. She said: “It’s important for me to take this time to be with me”. Christine said that she has been focused on raising awareness around the spectrum condition since she had her autism diagnosis in 2021.

Christine continued: “I’m still getting to know me as I was diagnosed only a few years ago. I want to spend time with my children. I just want to be with me, I’ve always been a loner, I quite like being in my own company.”

Loose Women panelist Coleen Nolan shared a video recently in which she was seen looking emotional as she came off stage on her solo tour, which concluded earlier this week

Coleen Nolan was emotional on the final night of her first solo tour and she has since shared advice with her fans after having taken on the “really scary” opportunity.

The singer, 59, embarked on her Naked tour last month and has since performed in a number of venues in the UK, prior to the final show in Swansea on Thursday night. Coleen later expressed gratitude over the experience on social media.

The Loose Women panelist took Instagram to mark the occasion, sharing a compilation video of footage from the final night of the tour. It began with a clip of a teary-eyed Coleen coming off the stage at theatre Swansea Grand.

She was then seen sitting in a makeup chair backstage at the theatre, where she opened up about the tour and gave advice to fans. Coleen said: “So it’s the last night of the tour. I’m really sad that it’s come to an end. I can’t believe I did it.”

The performer further commented: “I never thought I’d get to do it again and I did! I felt the fear and I did it anyway! I feel really proud of myself cause it was a really scary thing to do and I’ve loved it. And it’s no feeling like live performance.”

She added: “I guess my message to anyone out there who is … y’know wants to do something and thinks they’re too old or they can’t do it but they’d like to but they’re too scared – I would say ‘go and do it,’ because failure for me comes from not trying. If you try something and you fail at it, it’s still a success because you tried. Just don’t live with regrets.”

Coleen Nolan appeared emotional in a clip of her coming off stage on the final night of her solo tour ( 
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It featured in a video she’s shared, in which she also gave some advice to fans ( 
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Another clip showed her son Shane Nolan, 35, who was her support act, greeting Coleen and her vocal team backstage ahead of the final show. He said: “Can I just interrupt guys? Just want to say a few words. It’s been an absolute pleasure … I’m gonna cry … being your support act and having everyone here, you’re the best and we all love ya.”

Coleen was seen being gifted presents from her colleagues on the tour, which included a signed copy of the tour poster and a framed photo from one of the shows. She then teased in the clip: “Tonight’s gonna be a bit too emotional for me.”

Later in the footage, Coleen was seen wiping her eyes as she faced a standing ovation from the audience. Visibly emotional, she waved at the crowd before heading off stage, with the end of the clip having been seen earlier in the video.

The compilation video was shared by Coleen on Friday, with her writing alongside it: “Wow.. what a ride. Thank you to everyone involved for making a dream of mine come true.” She went on to thank people involved with the tour.

It included describing Shane as the “best support on and off stage”. Coleen concluded: “Finally to every single one of you who came and supported me, from the bottom of my heart, I will never forget you. Thank you, thank you … I love you all.”

Loose Women star Charlene White has shared a passionate message to far-right supporters after riots across the country following fatal stabbings in Southport

When far-right riots broke out around the country, the scenes of hate brought back bad memories for Loose Women ’s Charlene White.

Born and raised in south-east London, Charlene grew up a couple of miles from Eltham – a stronghold of the racist far-right National Front, and the place where black teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racially motivated attack in 1993.

Charlene, the daughter of Jamaican parents, says the language used in the recent riots was the same language she heard frequently as a child.

She says: “I grew up knowing the rumblings of the far right and racism – I’ve certainly had racist abuse thrown in my direction. But I know my worth. Those people believe that through violence, dissent, and aggression, they can control what I do with my life. The sort of language they were using was the same language of generations ago. I choose to not let those people have control over how I feel about myself.”

 

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The riots followed the fatal stabbings in Southport of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar on July 29. The ugly scenes across the country, hijacking the nation’s grief, were organised by the far right.

Newsreader Charlene adds: “There’s a small section of society that feels through behaving in that way, they can control what happens to those they don’t like – those they hate simply because of where they’re from. I choose to not give them power over me. I choose to still do the things that I want to do in my life.”

And she points to the contrasting scenes in Walthamstow, north-east London, where thousands turned out for a peaceful counter-protest and drowned out the extremists.

Charlene says: “The only thing that made me emotional during those entire few days was the thousands that turned up at Walthamstow. That’s the country that I’ve been raised in, and the place I call home.”

Home is something that holds deep resonance for the former I’m A Celebrity contestant, who is best known for presenting ITV News and sitting on the Loose Women panel.

It is at the heart of her first book, No Place Like Home. In it, she shares her own sense of home as a Jamaican Londoner, and interviews eight others who give their perspectives, shaped by events ranging from difficult family situations to political upheaval and war.

Nadia Sawalha, Charlene White, Judi Love and Jane Moore on Loose Women
It includes someone who went through the care system, and a family from Ukraine displaced by Russia ’s invasion. It is a timely piece of work. Charlene explains: “I don’t think any individual has the right to tell somebody else where they can call home. We have so many cultures who live here as a result of the empire. Great Britain wouldn’t be if we didn’t become the mix of cultures we are. My grandparents came here because they were asked to come to help rebuild the country.

“My hope is these people stop believing they can control where somebody else calls home. It’s a fundamental right to be able to be somewhere safe, where you can raise your family for the betterment of the country that you move to.”

For Charlene, home is South London, where she lives with partner Andy Woodfield and their children Alfie, seven, and Florence, five.

The seeds of her book began back in 2021 after working on her documentary Empire’s Child for ITV – exploring how the legacy of the British Empire has shaped her own family’s history. It left her feeling the need to explore further. She says: “There was a scene where the genealogist had taken me to a patch of land my ancestors had bought when they became freed slaves.

“I had a really weird reaction to it – my entire body just crumbled. It felt like I had this connection to this bit of land I’d never been to. It got me thinking about how I feel about home. I grew up in this Jamaican household in London, so my heart belongs in two places. There’s room for more than one place in your heart.”

Unexpectedly, the book also gave her dad Dennis a voice to tell a story he had bottled up for decades. He had been what is called a “barrel child” – youngsters left behind when parents move for work, eventually sent for when finances allow it.

Charlene says: “For my dad, that took over a decade. While he lived with his uncle in Jamaica, my grandparents had further children here. At 16, he arrived to two parents he’d not seen since he was a toddler – and these sisters he’d never met. It’s really hard for him. I learned about the impact on him emotionally, and why he’s the person he is. There are thousands who had to deal with that as children. Not all survived in the way my dad did.”

One thread that runs through Charlene’s book is the idea that safety and security as a child affect who you become as an adult. She says: “The partners you choose, the life you lead, the jobs you do, the people you have around you. If you’ve had a safe and secure childhood, it’s reflected in adulthood. I think we underestimate how important it is.”

She accepts that her children have a privileged life compared to many of those in her bulletins. And she ensures they know all about current affairs. She says: “They’re very aware of the world. We have conversations about it. We watch Newsround on CBBC every morning, and if they have questions, we talk about it.”

Unlike her own parents did, she would not discourage them from going into journalism. She says: “Coming from an immigrant household, there are specific jobs we were supposed to go into like doctor, dentist, lawyer, accountant. So they were really upset when I decided to do journalism. They didn’t forgive me until I got my first job!”

No Place Like Home is out on September 5

Myleene Klass broke down in tears on Loose Women today as she spoke about her best friend Lauren Laverne’s cancer diagnosis

Myleene Klass was in tears on Loose Women today as she spoke about her Lauren Laverne’s cancer diagnosis.

The Loose Women star was in tears as the panel started the show by discussing Lauren’s diagnosis. The One Show presenter and radio star shared a selfie from her hospital bed today, where she wrote: “I recently had a cancer diagnosis. It was (thank God) caught early and unexpectedly during a screening test and I am expected to make a full recovery. I ‘m in hospital at the moment and wanted to take this moment to say thank you: firstly to medical teams who have got me this far with incredible skill and kindness.

“To my family and friends who have been absolutely extraordinary every step of the way – I am so very grateful and love you so much. And of course thank you to my colleagues…. for their support and for giving me the time off that I need to get better.”

Lauren and Myleene are great friends
As she spoke at the start of the show, Myleene was clapped by the audience as she broke down in tears, with the panel reassuring her. She kept saying Lauren would be angry at her for crying, but she was just devastated to hear of her diagnosis.

“She’s gonna tell me off,” Myleene said, as she spoke of how brave her friend is. “She’s my best friend. I’m so glad we get to see what an incredible woman she is. But please get tested,” she said, urging others.

Lauren took to Instagram earlier today to urge others to get tested and not put off their appointments.

“If you’re avoiding a test or putting off an appointment to get yourself checked out please, please do it today. Half of us will get cancer at some point, and if you do, finding out asap is everything,” she said, “It’s usually my job to bring the good vibes on air but any you have to spare are very much welcome here. Sending loads of love to anyone in a similar boat, or who has made it back to shore.”

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Exclusive: Loose Women star Coleen Nolan reveals she does daily checks for breast cancer and pays a specialist for regular tests – because she’s scared she’ll miss a lump and be like Bernie, Anne and Linda

Having inflicted hell on her family, the scourge of cancer haunts Coleen Nolan every day.

So much so that for the Loose Women star, it has become a daily ritual to check for signs of the disease – as she’s terrified she will be the sister it strikes next. Speaking exclusively, Coleen reveals: “We have had so much heartache… I’m always checking. I still have this thing when I think, ‘What if I have missed it?’

“Really, from Linda, it became a big thing for me.” Coleen’s sister and fellow Mirror columnist Linda, 65, first battled breast cancer in 2006, but it returned in 2017 when she was diagnosed with incurable secondary breast cancer in her hip, which has since spread to her liver and brain.

Coleen’s sister Anne, now 73, also battled breast cancer in 2000 and 2020, while sister Bernie died from the disease aged just 52 in 2013. It’s left Coleen scared. “Whenever I’m in the shower, I will have a good feel and check,” she says. “And if there is ever a time when I think ‘I don’t like that’, I will go to the doctor straight away. And they will say ‘It’s fine, it’s a little cyst or an infection’.

The Nolans at the start of their fame in 1974: From left, Anne, 24, Denise, 22, Maureen, 20, Linda, 15, Bernie, 14, and Coleen, nine ( 
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“But it’s obviously in our family. I hope I don’t get it, but I just want to think that if I do, I’ll get it early. Linda put off going way too long. And she admits that now. She didn’t go straight away, so by the time they found it… it was huge.” Coleen has become so adamant about catching anything early that she even pays for regular appointments with a breast specialist, in addition to her NHS mammogram every two years.

“Anne was the first in our family to get it,” remembers Coleen. “There was 20 years between the first and second time, [but] both times, she got it picked up the day she felt something. I remember her saying that it felt like a grain of rice. She never had a mastectomy, she always picked it up early, which proves the point really.

“My breast specialist is £225 a year. People say, ‘It’s all right for you, you’ve got money’. But you could probably spend that in a year on takeaways, down the pub or on cigarettes.” Coleen, who turns 60 next March, has never been one to sugar-coat reality. Her ability to talk honestly about difficult issues is what made her transition from The Nolans to a much-loved Loose Women panellist and Mirror agony aunt so effortless.

Bernie (left) with Coleen in 2011. She died from breast cancer aged just 52 two years later ( 
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She’s now using her own suffering to help others, with her new book, A Hand To Hold – All I’ve Learnt About Grief, out August 29 by HarperNorth. It’s inspired by her previous Mirror-backed podcast Let’s Talk about Grief and offers advice and wisdom on dealing with one of the hardest human emotions. She shares poignant stories of her own life – from dealing with her mother’s Alzheimer’s (Read your exclusive Daily Mirror extract here) to the Three Little Words which left her furious after losing Bernie (Read your exclusive Daily Mirror extract here).

It was 2010 when The Bill and Brookside star Bernie was diagnosed, leaving her siblings – including Denise, now 72, Maureen, 70, Brian, 69, and Tommy, 74 – distraught.

Coleen actually had a premonition Bernie wouldn’t get the all-clear like Anne and Linda at the time. “I remember being told,” reveals Coleen. “It’s really weird. When I put the phone down, I cried my eyes out. With Anne and Linda I was thinking they would have chemo and they will fight it.

“[Yet] I don’t know whether it’s because I thought we can’t be three times lucky… but [with Bernie] I had this impending sense that she wasn’t going to make it.” Coleen was sadly right. The cancer spread to Bernie’s brain, lungs, liver, and bones, before she passed away in her sleep three years later.

Before Bernie’s bombshell: Coleen Nolan, Bernie Nolan, Linda Nolan and Maureen Nolan (L-R) perform in 2009 ( 
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Afterwards, Coleen battled depression. Eventually it was Bernie who saved her – Coleen remembered her sister making her promise: She could cry but only “for two weeks”, then she had to focus on the future. They were wise words – and Coleen wasn’t short of family to comfort her.

Coleen shares Ciara, 23, with second husband Ray Fensome and Shane Junior, 35, and Jake, 31, with first-husband-turned-”best-friend” Shane Richie. Having been through two divorces, Coleen believes a marriage break-up can be almost like another type of grief. Indeed for the TV star, her 2018 split with Ray was made even more difficult because they didn’t have a prenup – which she used to be against. “[Sorting out] who gets what – it’s horrible,” she says.

That’s why she’s already joked she’ll have one with her new boyfriend Michael Jones, 59, a supermarket logistics manager. The couple met on Tinder in 2021 and moved in together in Coleen’s Cheshire home earlier this year.

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“I do sometimes think, ‘Oh, it would be lovely’. Michael is my calm and peace,” she says, when asked about saying “I do” again.

“[And] I’m a hopeless romantic, and I loved being married… [However] I’ve said ‘If we ever get married, trust me we’ll have a pre-nup! 100%’”. For now it’s all about family time. Daughter Ciara, 23, recently got engaged to boyfriend Max Innes and son Jake will be welcoming his own little Nolan this Christmas.

Jake had to move into his mum’s garage in 2022 when his once-successful boyband Rixton crashed and burned. But he’s now engaged to pregnant fiancee Georgia and doing stand-up at Edinburgh Fringe. “I’m so proud of him,” Coleen says. “As a family, we have a lot to be happy for.”

The family motto is “life is to be lived right up until the end”. Bernie used her final days to plan her funeral. “Bernie had everything in place – even what car people were going in. The stress it took off my family was immense,” Coleen reveals. “She said everyone can wear what they like, and wanted a party.”

Linda has different ideas apparently. “Linda wants everyone in black, weeping and wailing,” jokes Coleen. “Linda will probably have a list of people she doesn’t want at her funeral – there are a lot of people Linda doesn’t like! I want mine to end on a laugh as that is what I’m known for.”

Daily Mirror’s Linda Nolan fighting incurable secondary breast cancer – and got the whole family together for a holiday earlier this year ( 
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Linda now lives with sister Denise in Blackpool and Coleen gets updates through the family WhatsApp group. “The two of them are always out, going for lunch, to the park,” says Coleen. “Linda gets scanned every three months and I hate it. I’m always thinking ‘Oh please God let this be a good phone call’. But she just takes it in her stride. She’s really grasping life by the horns and making memories. Her will to live and mental strength… I’ve never seen anything like it.”