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Coleen Nolan reveals ‘dirty old man’ Jimmy Savile invited her back to hotel room when she was just 14 in horrifying encounter
Coleen Nolan has said that paedophile TV presenter Jimmy Savile asked her back to his hotel room after an appearance on Top Of The Pops when she was just 14.
The Loose Women star spoke about the incident on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, saying she was not surprised when it later emerged ‘dirty old man’ Savile was a prolific sex offender.
After watching clips of herself performing on Top of the Pops as a child with The Nolans, she said: ‘You know when it came out about Jimmy Savile I wasn’t in any way shocked, thinking about it. I was 14 there and that same night, he asked me to go to his hotel.’
‘He said he had a suite in a hotel and I should go up and see it and he’d look after me.’
A year after Savile’s death in 2011, reports surfaced that he had sexually abused hundreds of people throughout his life.
The Metropolitan Police stated that the total number of alleged victims was 589, of whom 450 alleged abuse by Savile.
Nolan said: ‘Well at the time I just thought you dirty old man. As if I’m going to go up there, I wouldn’t do it anyway. I’ve got four sisters on the stage that would have beaten the crap out of him.’
Coleen also spoke about her sisters’ cancer battles on the show. Siblings Linda and Anne have undergone treatment for the disease while their other sister, Bernie, died of breast cancer in 2013 at the age of 52.
Nolan told Morgan: ‘Bernie would not accept any other scenario except she’s going to live. Whatever 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.’
Piers Morgan’s Life Stories airs tonight at 9pm on ITV.
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