Coleen Nolan has spoken about Linda’s ongoing battle after her cancer spread to her brain, she explained that she constantly looks at her sibling in ‘awe’

Coleen Nolan has praised her older sister Linda for continuing to put on a brave face, despite her intense rounds of chemotherapy.

Linda, 64, is currently battling incurable cancer which was in her hip and has since spread to her liver and brain but is remaining positive as she moves forward. The star has previously battled breast cancer as well as cancer of the liver. However, despite previously being given the all-clear, Linda recently shared a devastating health update.

The singer and presenter revealed that although she’s rang the all-clear bell in the past, she won’t be doing it again as she continues to live with the disease. But while she continues to have brutal treatment, the Irish-born stars aid her condition is now a “way of her life”. But after recent scans, medical staff revealed to Linda that her cancer was not growing anymore.

Praising her older sister, Coleen, 58, told the Mirror: “Certainly in public [there’s a smile on her face], obviously there are nights she goes to bed and I only found this out recently but there are nights she goes I think the night times because she’s totally on her own.

Coleen praised her older sibling, saying she is an ‘absolute warrior’ ( 

“You know, in your bedroom and your brain, you just overthink and I think there are the times when she has her cry and he’s scared you know, but the rest of the time. She is an absolute warrior. I look at her in awe, she treats chemo like she’s going to Tesco and it keeps coming back and battering her and she keeps on smiling and she still keeps getting out of bed and she bloody hates it.”

The Loose Women presenter went on to add: “She hates it, she hates being bald. I think that for her that’s the most dramatic thing. She’s lost her hair, this is the fourth time and she’s lost it again and then she gets embarrassed and she goes ‘That’s really of vain of me’ and I’m like ‘It’s not’.” Coleen herself was recently diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma on her shoulder and melanoma on her face. Initially, the 58-year-old had noticed a “tiny” bit of inflamed skin on her shoulder which she believed was eczema.

However, a trip to a dermatologist over a completely separate matter confirmed she had basal cell carcinoma on her shoulder. This was later treated with chemotherapy cream for a six-week period. However, her melanoma could have become more serious, she explained.

She told us: “As soon as I showed him he went ‘That’s basal cell carcinoma you need to come back in’ and I went ‘I thought you were going to tell me it was eczema, and he was like ‘You need to get undressed’ and he checked all of it and then I asked him about dry patches on my face and he said ‘They’re melanoma’ but the shocking and surprising thing is that it’s all from childhood.

“He said everything I’ve got from childhood. That one [on her shoulder] has been treated the carcinoma and touch work that’s gone and then these two [on her nose] have yet to be treated but it’s nothing major. What he said about this is if they don’t treat them then later on in life, that will become a dangerous kind of skin cancer. So I do have to get them treated. And I’m going to go on and have an all-over body. I’m going to go and see another specialist who’s been recommended to me, who literally checks every single piece of skin you’ve got because I want to know because I know you know from being in a family that you’re surrounded by cancer and I do the full monty which is about awareness. I know that catching these things in time is the most effective as scary as it is.

Discussing sharing her diagnosis live on Loose Women, she said: “To me, it’s all a bit dramatic. And like it is nothing really. I’ve got a sister whose cancer has gone to her brain. So I just felt a bit embarrassed. Initially, I was like, oh, it’s all got a bit too much. But obviously, it’s there and it’s always an important subject. But yeah, I mean, it’s it’s nothing compared to what my sister is going through.”

The star recently her Naked Tour and jokes that she may consider getting naked on stage. Speaking about getting on the road, she said: “I’m so excited and terrified all at once. It’s something I’ve never done before, hence why I’ve called it Naked because I think Naked also suggests apart from the very obvious, it also suggests feeling very vulnerable. And I do feel very vulnerable but I’m also at a stage now where I’ve always said that singing and performing is really the greatest love of my life is what I’ve done since the age of two. But I’ve never had that but I’ve always been surrounded by family.”