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. 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 in the
UK singles chart. The group had further 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". On 14 January 1987, Coleen appeared alongside her sisters
Anne,
Bernie and
Maureen in the
BBC sitcom
Filthy Rich & Catflap. In 1991, the group won a
33rd Japan Record Awards Kikaku-shō (Prize for Planning) for a cover versions of Japanese pop music. Coleen left the group in 1994 to concentrate on raising a family, although she did return briefly in 1995 to promote a re-recorded version of "I'm in the Mood for Dancing". In 2000, Coleen Nolan became a regular panellist on ITV's
Loose Women. She left
Loose Women on 28 July 2011, only to return again on 7 October 2013 as a regular panellist. Since July 2014, Nolan has also been a relief anchor of the show. 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 round 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!" 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 show
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, where she was voted "least trustworthy" in the first week. In the house she struck up a friendship with
Game of Thrones actor
James Cosmo. On day 18, she was put up for eviction by
Jamie O'Hara during a nominations 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, Nolan voted for Cosmo to gain eternal immunity which he eventually won after the most housemates voted for him. On Day 32 (3 February), 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 after Nolan received criticism for bullying fellow
Celebrity Big Brother housemate Kim Woodburn on air on an episode of
Loose Women.
Guest appearances On 4 March 2002, Nolan was a panellist on 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 programme
Celebrity Fit Club, which followed overweight celebrities as they tried to lose weight for charity. In 2002 and 2003, she was a panellist 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". In September 2006, Nolan returned to
Celebrity Fit Club as part of the judging panel in the
fourth series. On 6 October 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 15 February 2013, Nolan stood in for
Matthew Wright as host of
The Wright Stuff on
Channel 5.
Other work Nolan has a weekly column in
Best magazine. She also has an
agony aunt column in the
Daily Mirror titled
Dear Coleen. In 2007, Nolan featured in television advertisements for the supermarket chain
Iceland, along with her sister
Bernie and former
Loose Women colleague
Kerry Katona. She appeared in further commercials for Iceland during the next couple of years. She was also the new face of
Park Christmas Savings and appeared in their television advertisements in December 2010. In early 2008, she released a DVD,
A Brand New You, produced with
Rosemary Conley. ==Personal life==