I choked on my Frosties when mum talked of my sex life on live TV
Day Coleen made son Shane squirm
HAVING a Loose Women star for a mum hasn’t been easy for Shane Nolan – expecially when he’s watching her while eating his breakfast.
Today the singer – now aiming to step out of the shadow of famous parents Coleen and Shane Richie – reveals there’s always a strong chance it could end up spluttered over the kitchen floor.
Like the time his mother recounted how she heard him having sex after his mobile accidentally left a message on her voicemail during a passionate romp.
As ‘embarrassing mum’ moments go, it was priceless.
“Let me say I listened for four and a half minutes. Four and a half minutes! I was dead impressed,” Coleen told millions of ITV viewers in 2015. “I hope he’s not watching this.”
He was. “That was an awkward moment as I was having my Frosties,” says Shane.
“I was like ‘ whoa, that’s private!’ Now she rings me before she says anything on TV. I have to be very careful about what I tell my mum.”
Shane, 30 – who is named after his dad, EastEnders star Shane, 54 – today reveals the embarrassment was reversed in childhood when HE heard his parents having a romp.
“I’m still scarred by it. I had to take my little brother downstairs,” he says. “I was a kid, but old enough to know what was going on.”
Now singer-songwriter Shane, who fronts The Nolan Band, is determined to be a success in n his own right, and not just because of his is famous parents.
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“I want to break ak out of my mum and dad’s shadow,” he e says. “Everything I do, I don’t want to be like, ‘I only got that because dad is on n the album or because mum is on telly’.
“When my mum um says something on Loose Women or my dad gets a bad story line, it’s always ways me that gets negative attention.” ion.” And then there are the social media trolls to contend with. “I have had stuff like, ‘I wish it was your mum that died of cancer and not your aunty’. What kind of human being writes that?”
Shane has certainly laid good foundations for throwing off his parents’ shadow. He toured the UK and Europe and was the opening act for The Nolans’ sell-out reunion arena tour back in 2009.
He also went on to earn critical acclaim as Roddy O’Neill in the UK National theatre tour of Boogie Nights. And he toured with David Hasselhoff Hasselhof f for musical Last Night A
DJ Saved My Life. Now Shane wants to star in a soap as he has a string of friends involved in prime time TV shows.
He says: “EastEnders is my favourite – I probably have to say that, don’t I?”
With such a successful family – including brother Jake Roche, frontman of band Rixton – Shane feels he has a lot to live up to.
“My mum, dad and brothers have been really successful succ in what they’ve done, he says. “I “If they were rubbish it would be a lot easier ea for me. People say, ‘I thought you were we going to be rubbish but you were actually act really good’.”
The Nolan sisters si – Maureen, 64, Anne, 68, Linda, 59, Coleen, Denise, 66, and Bernie who died at 52 in 2013 – were famous for their feuds. But Shane says they now g get on better than ever before. “Blood is thicker t than water. But it did take my aunty a to pass away for them to think ‘ life’s too short’.”
He says m mum Coleen, 53, who recently split f from second hubby Ray Fensome, is lo looking for love again.
And this ti time, says Shane, she’s aiming for th the cream of the crop. “My mu mum wants a farmer – someone who can help with her place in the countryside,” he says.
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I was ‘whoa that’s private’. Now she calls before saying anything on Loose Women SHANE NOLAN ON BREAKFAST SPLUTTERFEST CAUSED BY MUM