Colleen Nolan
- 12 March 1965
- She is the youngest of eight children and the only one born in England
- She is an English Irish singer, television personality, and author
- She also left school at 15 with no qualifications.
- She was the youngest member of one of the most successful female groups of all time – The Nolans.
- She competed in the fourth series of Dancing on Ice, finishing fourth.
- She appeared in the tenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, finishing as runner-up. She returned to Celebrity Big Brother in 2017 and won the nineteenth series.
- She has been regular panellist on Loose Women for the last 20 years
- She was criticised for bullying fellow big brother housemate Kim Woodburn on air on an episode of Loose Woman
- She admitted on Loose Women that she has regular erotic dreams about X Factor supremo Simon Cowell. Well, who hasn’t
- She married Shane Richie in 1990, and they had two sons before splitting up in 1997
- She has a weekly column in Best magazine
- She featured in TV adverts for the supermarket Iceland, along with her sister Bernie and former Loose Women colleague Kerry Katona.
- Just this month (July ‘23) she announced that she had been diagnosed with a type of skin cancer
- Her hits include “Attention to Me”, “Don’t Make Waves” and “I’m in the Mood for Dancing”
