Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has been living with the winner of a reality TV competition for a year after she became estranged from her mum

Coleen Nolan has been living with a TV competition winner for a year, who she calls her secret “daughter”.

The Loose Women star, 58, took in reality TV winner Orlagh Hartnett after she became estranged from her own mum.

Orlagh, 21, has just been crowned the winner of E4’s Fred’s Last Resort and moved into the Nolan’s Cheshire home last year.

She revealed how the television personality calls her a “daughter”.

The pizza waitress joked to the Sun : “Honestly, my birthday card is Orlagh, the daughter I never wanted!”

Orlagh bagged the £10,000 prize money after she won the show hosted by First Date’s Fred Sirieix.

Orlagh won Fred Sirieix’s TV competition ( 
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The series saw 12 young people compete for a top hospitality contract during the summer season at a five star hotel on the French Riviera.

During her appearance on the show, Orlagh kept her friendship with Coleen under wraps and fellow contestants had no idea of the connection until they visited Orlagh at home.

Orlagh said: “I didn’t tell anyone on the show who she was, or who I lived with. When the recruits came round to my house afterwards I was like ‘this is Coleen and I live with her.”

The winner first met Coleen when she was just 7-years-old and spent time at her home growing up.

Orlagh left home at 16 and contact dwindled with her own mum, yet she has admitted Coleen stepped in to offer her guidance.

Coleen calls Orlagh her ‘daughter’ ( 
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She added: “As awful and upsetting the situation is I have to pick myself up everyday and get on with life and go get what I want.

“The support that Coleen’s given me has been…honestly, I don’t know what I do without her.”

Orlagh is now set to move to London to train in hospitality, with the hopes of one day owning her own hotel.

Coleen recently opened up on Loose Women about her sister Linda Nolan ‘s cancer diagnosis as The Nolans singer revealed that her cancer has spread.

Linda revealed her cancer had spread to her brain after first being diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in 2005 before getting the all-clear in 2006.

In 2017, she was diagnosed with a form of incurable secondary cancer in her hip, which later spread to her liver in 2020.

Coleen said: “It’s her strength and her will to live, she’s strong all the time and it makes the rest of us strong.”