In light of the harrowing news surrounding athlete Chris Hoy, Coleen Nolan has opened up about her sister, Linda

Coleen Nolan explained that her sister Linda Nolan simply “doesn’t want to know how long she has left” as she continues to battle breast cancer after the news it had spread to her brain, bones, and liver.

The former Nolans star, 59, decided to open up about her family situation after Sir Chris Hoy announced his cancer was terminal. Having lost one family member to Cancer – Bernie Nolan – who lost her battle with breast cancer in 2013, Coleen knows the pain that the Hoy family is suffering right now.

Speaking about Chris’ shock diagnosis on Tuesday’s (October 22) episode of Loose Women, the former songstress told the rest of the panel that she “understood” how the cyclist and his family may be feeling at this time.

It was at this point that she addressed her sister Linda, who is currently battling with the disease every day. Updating on her situation, she told the panel, audience, and viewers: “I know my sister Linda at the moment, who’s been amazing and is still amazing, I’m in awe of her every day.

Coleen was in “shock” over Chris Hoy’s diagnosis

“But I know, for her, one of the things she doesn’t want to know is how long she’s got left. Because she feels that once she’s given that prognosis that it would probably make her just give up trying to live.”

Wearing her heart on her sleeve, Coleen updated: “At the moment, she’s still having treatment and that’s what’s keeping her going you know, ‘as long as they’re still going to treat me then I’m going to keep on going’.”

Coleen updated on her sister Linda’s cancer battle

Despite Linda’s positivity and ongoing treatment, Coleen had noted a few instances of recent where she’d felt her sister may have considered “not being here” anymore.

She went on to say: “But she does say more often than not now, she’ll say things like ‘well no, let’s do that this week because I might not be here next week. Or she’ll say she’s now doing more because she’s ‘living each day like it might be my last day’ and ‘I might not have tomorrow’ so that mindset has changed.”

Coleen shared an emotional update about her sister Linda

Coleen and her famous family have been plagued with cancer scares and individual battles – even the ITV television personality herself was using cream for skin cancer a few years back and her other sister Annie is also now cancer-free.

Despite the turmoil the disease has caused to her and her family, she is still “shocked” to learn of others suffering from cancer. She told the panel: “I was still shocked to learn about Chris, you know he was such a fit and athletic man that you just don’t think this can happen.”