Coleen Nolan blasted the cost of King Charles III's Coronation on Loose Women.
The 58-year-old was on the panel of the popular ITV programme today alongside Gloria Hunniford, Brenda Edwards and Jane Moore. Coleen reacted to monarch's official crowning , which took place at Westminster Abbey on Saturday.
The singer admitted she is a royalist but explained she felt uneasy watching the extravagant ceremony at the weekend. She said: "That's because of the state that we're all in, the economy and people are struggling to eat."
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Coleen suggested the resources to fund the event could have been put to better use in the NHS as she revealed two members of her family ended up in A&E. She said: "One of whom is still in a cubicle because there's no bed, that's 24 hours later.
"My sister, who, as we know, is very ill, had to go to hospital and was in A&E for 20 hours before anyone saw her. And I'm there, watching this spectacle, thinking it's all well and good that it brought £350million in for that sector. Can we please bring that in for the NHS?
"It's not just the NHS that's dying; people are dying because the NHS is broken. Someone told me that it was like us all giving £5 towards it, which isn't that much in the grand scheme of things, but we weren't asked if we wanted to give it, and if we were, maybe 66m of us should've given it to the NHS, because we'd have had a choice.
"I know he scaled it down from 8,000 people to 2,000 people. But for me, it should've been done behind closed doors, and then he comes out on the balcony so everyone can see him, but we don't need all that money spent."
Coleen's sister, Linda, has previously revealed she has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The 64-year-old opened up about her diagnosis after she was pictured leaving a hospital last week with her sister Maureen helping her into a car. She told Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley on Good Morning Britain last month: "I just want to tell you that sadly for me that my cancer has now spread to my brain, which I only found out on Monday.
"Obviously, it's very frightening because there isn't much help for brain cancer at the moment. Apart from radiotherapy, which I'm going to be having. There is a new drug that has been in use for a year for brain cancer.
"They're going to try me on that with some other treatment. I just wanted people to know that is the situation. I'm not giving up and I'm positive." Linda has previously battled cancer as she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in 2005 but got the all-clear in 2006. In 2017, cancer returned in her hip and spread to her liver in 2020.
However, Linda admitted the brain cancer diagnosis came as a shock, as she was not displaying typical symptoms associated with the condition. She said: "Because my speech hadn't been affected or my vision, I wasn't getting any headaches, I was praying it was something maybe to do with my spine. So really it was shock when he said it’s [cancer] in your brain.
"The hope is that with this new drug, that they're hailing the wonder drug, the hope is that it’ll do wonders for me, please God."
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