Coleen Nolan bravely apple about her skin cancer scare when questioned on Lorraine today. ITV’s Lorraine Kelly was discussing the importance of skincare when she turned to The Nolans star to speak about her own experience.
Coleen, 58, appeared on Lorraine today to speak about her upcoming performances, as the singer reflected on how “next year isn’t promised”. The star’s family has sadly been struck by cancer multiple times.
In 2013, Bernie Nolan died from metastatic cancer, while their sister Linda Nolan is also currently battling cancer. On Lorraine today, the 64-year-old Scottish host spoke to an expert about the importance of wearing sunscreen every day.
She then turned to Coleen, who revealed she had been allowed to play in the sun without any protection as a child, as there was less awareness at the time. However, the star went on to say that, following her skin cancer scare, she wears the potentially life-saving product every day.
Lorraine asked: “Coleen, I know you had a wee scare… More than a wee scare, didn’t you? Are you someone who put suncream on a lot?” Coleen replied: “Yeah, well obviously back in the 70s when I was little they didn’t you know? Your mum sent you out in the garden and you played and you got burned.
“And I went out recently just before Christmas and they said, ‘Oh you’ve got a pre-melanoma on your face’ and I had a carcinoma on my shoulder, which is now gone,” she continued. “I have to sort the melanoma out after touring.
“But yeah, big scare. And now I will not go out without SPF 50, even in the snow, even in the rain.”
The Loose Women star spoke about her skin cancer ordeal with her fellow panellists last year, revealing it was her sister Maureen Nolan who had pointed to “tiny bit of skin” on her shoulder that was a “bit red”.
The Dancing On Ice star went on to explain she was seeing a dermatologist about “another problem” when the doctor told her it was a common skin cancer basal cell carcinoma.
She added: “I went back in and he was very good and he said, ‘Look, it’s nothing to worry about.
“‘It is actually a cancer that doesn’t necessarily spread, but you do need to treat it and we’ll try it with cream and then the chemo cream and then if that doesn’t work, we’ll cut it out and give you a skin graft.’
“My first instinct, typical me, was to laugh hysterically because I just thought that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard anybody say,” she added.
“I’m sick of cancer and also, my first instinct was, I’m not telling anybody in my family because this that I’ve got at the moment seems nothing compared to what my sisters have been through.
“And… what Linda is going through, where it has gone to her brain and she’s having chemo.
“It just seemed so pathetic for some reason to go back and go, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got a carcinoma’.”
Lorraine airs weekdays at 9am on ITV.