COLEEN Nolan was left red-faced as Piers Morgan quizzed her about saying her son, then 15, could go to Amsterdam to sleep with a sex worker.
The Loose Woman panellist, 56, famously made the comment on Loose Women back in 2005, when she revealed she would pay for Shane Jr to go to Amsterdam if he did well in his GCSEs – and wouldn’t mind if he slept with a prostitute while he was there.
Piers couldn’t resist asking her about the comment as she appeared on Life Stories this evening – leaving Shane, who was watching in the audience, squirming.
Coleen tried to make out that it had been reported in the press the wrong way, but son Shane piped up: “No it wasn’t!”
The 56-year-old then revealed that she didn’t actually say he could sleep with a sex worker but had told him he could go anywhere he wanted.
“He said he would like to go to Amsterdam. So I was saying this on Loose Women and they said, ‘why do you think he wants to go to Amsterdam.'”
She admitted that she wasn’t naïve about why he wanted to go there, saying “it wasn’t to smell the tulips”.
Shane revealed he never actually went to Amsterdam in the end.
Piers asked Coleen if Shane had done well in G.C.S.Es, to which she replied that he had done very well.
“Good motivation, then,” joked Piers.
Coleen appeared on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories tonight to talk about everything from her singing career and losing her sister Bernie to breast cancer in 2013.
There were many emotional moments with Coleen breaking down as she recalled some of the hardest times over the years.
Speaking about her sister Bernie, Coleen said she “convinced” the family that she was going to live during her treatment.
The star told Piers Morgan: “Bernie would not accept any other scenario except she’s going to live.
“What ever they said, she was going to live. And I guess she convinced us of that as well.
“I’ll never ever forget her. And we talk about her as if she’s still here and it still does feel like she’s a massive part of our family because whatever we do, Bernie is mentioned.
“Sometimes sadly because everything we do we say, Bernie would love this. She was just so full of life and it was, it was… hard.”
Anne and Linda told The Sun last year that they were both diagnosed days apart.
Linda has incurable liver cancer, while sister Anne has breast cancer.
