Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has revealed she has been living with a TV competition winner for a year. She calls her her "secret daughter".
Coleen, 58, took in reality TV winner Orlagh Hartnett after she became estranged from her own mother. Orlagh, 21, has just been crowned the winner of E4's Fred's Last Resort and moved into the Nolan's Cheshire home last year, reports the Mirror.
She revealed how the TV personality calls her a "daughter". The pizza waitress joked to the Sun: "Honestly, my birthday card is Orlagh, the daughter I never wanted!"
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Orlagh bagged £10,000 prize money after she won Fred's Last Resort, which is hosted by First Date's Fred Sirieix. The series saw 12 young people compete for a top hospitality contract during the summer season at a five-star hotel on the French Riviera.
During her appearance on the show, Orlagh kept her friendship with Coleen under wraps and fellow contestants had no idea of the connection until they visited Orlagh at home. Orlagh said: "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'." The winner first met Coleen when she was just seven-years-old and spent time at her home growing up.
Orlagh left home at 16 and contact dwindled with her own mum - but she has admitted Coleen stepped in to offer her guidance. She added: "As awful and upsetting the situation is I have to pick myself up everyday 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'd 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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