Coleen Nolan says her new live show will take her fans though the highest and lowest points of her life as she looks at a very different schedule for Loose Women
With ITV scaling back its daytime schedule as part of a massive cost-cutting exercise, Coleen Nolan is looking outside TV for new opportunities – including a second UK tour. She’s following her hit 2024 show Naked with a new one-woman show called This Is Me which kicks off next month.
The show will take audiences through Coleen’s life story. It starts with her childhood in Blackpool and following the story of success that began before her ninth birthday with an appearance on The Cliff Richard show as part of the original six-strong Nolan Sisters.
But Coleen will also touch on the more difficult aspects of her life, including her divorces from Shane Ritchie and Ray Fensome, as well as her shock basal-cell carcinoma diagnosis.
“People have asked me whether my honesty and openness has ever left me feeling vulnerable,” she told Woman’s Weekly. “I can only answer that I can sleep better knowing I’ve been honest.”
She added that it’s essential to be genuine with audiences, saying: “It’s very difficult to keep up a persona that isn’t truly authentic. The This is Me show is about embracing life, telling the truth, having a laugh and celebrating who we are — wrinkles, wobbly bits and all.”
Last year was particularly hard for Coleen, beginning with the sad death from cancer of her sister Linda. Coleen said last month that Christmas 2025 was going to be “extremely hard” without her, particularly as Linda “was the life and soul of family occasions”.
She added: ”This will be our first Christmas without Linda and it will be extremely hard because she was the life and soul of family occasions. I really think I’m going to feel it.”
Last year also saw the massive changes in Loose Women, the show she has worked on since 2000.
She explained after the ITV announcement that she was “really sad” to be saying goodbye to people on the show she has known for decades, saying: “This will be the last one I do before we move next year to a whole new beginning of Loose in different studios, different format – but we’re still coming back.”
“It’s sad to be leaving Television Centre, somewhere where I started my whole career in television when I was nine years old. So many memories of that building with my sisters and the amazing people we worked with over the years and the series we did. “
Coleen went on: It’s really sad as well because I’m saying goodbye to people that I’ve worked with some of them for 20 odd years, crew wise. I feel like they’ve shared my life with me. I’ve told them things behind the scenes that I would confide in with really good friends – and that’s what they are.”
Coleen added: “I’m really, really going to miss them. But we shall be in central London next year. Still doing our thing, still bringing our personal stories and our opinions, like them or not. I hope you join us there.
Source: Mirror
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