Loose Women panellist Coleen Nolan has been living with a TV competition winner for over a year and has even begun calling her her “secret daughter”. Orlagh Hartnett was crowned the winner of E4’s Fred’s Last Resort but recently moved in with Coleen after becoming estranged from her own mother.
The E4 series saw First Dates star and French maître d Fred Sirieix recruit 12 young people into a highly demanding summer season at Les Roches Blanches, a spectacular five-star hotel on the French Riviera.
Through the eight episodes, the recruiters were tasked with organising everything from a top designer’s fashion show to wine and oyster tasting, fine-dining events, planning a doggy photoshoot, serving VIPs on a superyacht and providing personal one-to-one service on excursions outside the hotel.
Orlagh won the first series and became Fred’s leading recruit, walking away with £10,000 and a year-long contract with Accor.
However, since coming back from the series and filming in the sunny French Riviera, she has been living with Coleen Nolan in her house in Cheshire.
Orlagh joked to The Sun: “Honestly, my birthday card is Orlagh, the daughter I never wanted!”
During her time on the show, Orlagh kept her friendship with Coleen a secret from her fellow contestants, with them having no idea until they visited Orlagh at home.
She added: “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.”
Orlagh has known Coleen since she was just seven years old and spent time at her home whilst growing up, bonding with Coleen’s children.
After she left home at 16, contact with her own mum dwindled and revealed that Coleen had stepped in to offer her some guidance.
She said: “As awful and upsetting the situation is, I have to pick myself up every day 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.
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Coleen has also been going through a tough time lately with her family, as she opened up about her sister Linda Nolan’s cancer spreading to her brain.
Linda was first diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in 2005 before getting the all-clear in 2006.
However, the cancer came back in 2017 and she was later diagnosed with a form of incurable secondary cancer in her hip, which later spread to her liver in 2020.
Coleen said during an episode of Loose Women: “It’s her strength and her will to live, she’s strong all the time and it makes the rest of us strong.”
Loose Women airs weekdays from 12:30pm on ITV.
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