Coleen Nolan Biography
Coleen Nolan is an English 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 and from 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 Award in 1992. She was a member of the line-up that re-formed 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. In January 2017 she returned as an all-star for the 19th series and went on to win with 33% of the final vote.
10 Quick Facts About Coleen Nolan
- Name: Coleen Nolan
- Age: 54 years old as of 2019
- Birthday: 12 March
- Zodiac Sign: Pisces
- Height: 5 feet 5 inches (1.67 m)
- Nationality: English
- Occupation: Singer, Television presenter, Author
- Marital Status: Divorced
- Salary: To be updated
- Net worth: $6 million
Coleen Nolan Age
She was born on 12 March 1965. She is aged 54 years as of 2019.
Coleen Nolan Daughter
Nolans’ daughter is called Ciara Fensome. She was born on 19 June 2001.
Coleen Nolan Personal Life
Nolan is the youngest of eight children and the only one born in England. She married Shane Richie in 1990, and they had two sons before splitting up in 1997 and divorcing in 1999. Nolan 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) when he proposed on her 40th birthday in 2005.
They married in November 2007. Nolan announced that she and Fensome were getting divorced after two years of marital difficulties on 6 February 2018. The divorce was finalized in mid-December 2018 and she said that she and Fensome have been able to remain good friends with each other since the divorce. Her late mother, Maureen, was an Alzheimer’s sufferer.
In 2006 Nolan opened the first Alzheimer’s Society information center on the Fylde coast. Maureen died on 30 December 2007.
Coleen Nolan’s Net Worth
Nolan is worth $6 million dollars.
Coleen Nolan Career
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. Owing 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 on 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 1991 the group won a 33rd Japan Record Awards Kikaku-shō (Prize for Planning) for the Cover version of Japanese pops. 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.
On 14 January 1987, she appeared alongside her sisters Anne, Bernie, and Maureen in the BBC sitcom Filthy Rich & Catflap. In 2000 Nolan became a regular panelist on ITV’s Loose Women. She has been with the series on and off for eleven years. She left Loose Women on 28 July 2011 only to return again on 7 October 2013 as a regular panelist. Since July 2014 Nolan has also been an occasional anchor of the show.
In September 2018, Coleen announced she would be taking a long hiatus from Loose Women following the backlash she received from her on-air argument with Kim Woodburn. It is unknown when she will return. Nolan presented the programme, The Truth About… Eternal Youth about plastic surgery on ITV in 2009, and presented The Secret Guide To Women’s Health in 2010 on Sky Real Lives.
In 2000 Nolan played the part of Janelle Cooper in the short comedy film, Rattler. 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 around 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!” She was eliminated in week 10, finishing in fourth place. She went on to co-host the spin-off show Dancing on Ice Friday with Ben Shephard in 2010. and on 27 February 2011, she hosted Dancing on Ice, in place of Holly Willoughby who fell ill. On 15 August 2012 Nolan was announced as the eleventh celebrity to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house on Channel 5.
In 2013 Nolan was a resident agony aunt on the ITV chat shows The Alan Titchmarsh Show, appearing on the show every Friday. In 2015 she took part in ITV’s Give a Pet a Home series which worked alongside the RSPCA in Birmingham. The show began airing in April 2015, with Amanda Holden as host. In 2017 Nolan participated in Celebrity Big Brother again.
In the house, she struck up a good friendship with Game of Thrones actor James Cosmo. On day 18 she was put up for eviction by Jamie O’Hara during a nomination twist in the superheroes shopping task. On day 19 it was revealed that Nolan received the most votes out of her, Chloe Ferry, Kim Woodburn, and Jedward in a live flash vote. Also on day 19, she voted for Cosmo to gain eternal immunity which he eventually won after most housemates voted for him.
On Day 32 (February 3), she was announced as the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 19. On 3 September 2018, Nolan announced that she would embark on her first solo concert tour, the Never Too Late Tour, in 2019. Originally scheduled to begin on 11 January, the tour was postponed indefinitely on 6 September 2018.
Guest appearances
On 4 March 2002 Nolan was a panelist on the BBC panel game show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. On 25 May she appeared on An Audience with Brian Conley. Later in 2002, she took part in the first series of the reality television program Celebrity Fit Club, which followed overweight celebrities as they tried to lose weight for charity. On 7 January 2003 Nolan appeared in the documentary We Are Family which chronicled the success stories of various musical acts that were made up of family members.
In 2002 and 2003, she was a panelist on the chat show The Wright Stuff on Five and guest-hosted the show herself in 2013. 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”.
Nolan returned to Celebrity Fit Club as part of the judging panel in the fourth series in September 2006. 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 on 6 October. Nolan on 19 September appeared on Al Murray’s Happy Hour 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. She was a guest panelist on an episode of Celebrity Juice on ITV2 on 13 September 2012. Nolan stood in for Matthew Wright as host of The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 on 15 February 2013.
Coleen Nolan Books
Biography
- Upfront and Personal: The Autobiography (Pan, 2009) ISBN 9780330506694
- Mum to Mum: Happy Memories and Honest Advice, From a Real Mum (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2010) ISBN 9780283071225
- No Regrets (Penguin, 2014) ISBN 9781405917322
Novels
- Envy (Pan, 2010) ISBN 9780330516983
- Denial (Pan, 2011) ISBN 9780330516976
- General non-fiction
- Coleen Nolan’s Beauty Secrets: From Drab to Fab in 15 Minutes’ (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2010) ISBN 9780283071126
Coleen Nolan Contacts
- Youtube
- Tiktok
- Website
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