Coleen Nolan won't marry boyfriend she met on Tinder – unless he signs prenup

15 February 2024 , 20:00

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Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has revealed she could marry partner Michael Jones - but only if he signs a prenup agreement.

The popular presenter and Mirror columnist, who was previously married to EastEnders actor Shane Richie and musician Ray Fensome, admitted she found them unromantic, but said she hated the financial wrangling so much during her divorces, that she would never put herself in that position again.

Coleen, 58, explained: “I think Michael would very much like to get married at some point. If it meant a lot to him, maybe I would, but I’d bloody make him sign a great big piece of paper before I did, because I’m not going through that again.

“I’ve looked into it. 100 per cent. It’s sorted from there and it’s a reference point; no-one thinks they’re going to split up.” Coleen, who was married to actor Shane – the father of her two sons, Shane Jr, 34, and Jake, 31 and secondly to musician Ray, father of her daughter Ciara, 21, who met supermarket logistics worker Michael three years on the Tinder dating app, after being single for four years. “I got married twice thinking both of them were for life,” she told Kaye Adams on her How to be 60 podcast.

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Coleen Nolan has opened up about her relationship with Michael Jones (Instagram/coleen_nolan)

Coleen Nolan won't marry boyfriend she met on Tinder – unless he signs prenup

Coleen sees herself growing old with Michael (LORNA ROACH PHOTOGRAPHY)

“I never went into marriage thinking – what if it doesn’t work? And neither of them did in the end. It’s traumatic enough on an emotional level, but then when there are solicitors involved and you’re dividing up everything, what it comes down to is who owns what. How much have you got? Give him 50 per cent. Off you trot. It’s a horrible stage and I would like to have that stage worked out. That if this doesn’t work out – which I hope it will forever more – but if it doesn’t, then this is the situation that is in writing in a legal form.”

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Coleen added: “I’ve always been against prenups, because I find them really unromantic and very much like you’re going into it going: ‘well, it probably won’t work, so sign this.’” But she told podcast host Kaye Adams that her 2018 divorce from Ray Fensome had made her wary. She said: “Hopefully it will work and we’ll never have to look at that piece of paper again, but what I went through on my last divorce I don’t ever want to go through again. Even though I didn’t hate Ray, there were times when I was going: ‘Oh my God, this is so unfair.’”

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Prenuptial agreements are legal documents drawn up between a couple before their marriage, which outlines how their assets will be divided between them in the event of divorce. They are often popular with couples where one partner has more money than another and with people who are marrying later in life.

Coleen met Michael on Tinder and will only marry him on one condition (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

Coleen, who is currently touring the country with her solo show Naked said she has remained friends with her exes and that Ray is even playing guitar on her tour. But she told How to be 60 that her relationship with Michael had brought new-found stability to her life.

She said: “It’s a very different relationship and I actually feel grown-up for the first time in my life. I don’t feel like a silly teenager in a relationship. It’s a 100 per cent partnership. I live quite an unpredictable life as far as work and I just want to be peaceful in my personal life and he brings such a calmness to my crazy life. Nothing’s a drama. I’ve never had that and it’s a beautiful feeling.”

However, Coleen admitted she needed therapy before she would accept that the relationship could work. She told How to be 60: “I was so messed up that I actually finished with Michael three times. It was nothing to do with him. I went and had therapy, because I wasn’t used to being with somebody like that. I’d say: ‘I’m going to Tesco,’ and he’d say: ‘I’ll come with you,’ and I’d say: ‘why are you coming to the supermarket with me?’

Coleen is currently on her first ever solo tour

“I was pushing away everything I’d wanted in my life from a relationship because I wasn’t used to it.” Coleen revealed it was her sister Linda who persuaded her to go ahead with her tour, which sees her singing a string of hits from her days performing with her sisters in The Nolans, including Attention to Me, Don’t Make Waves and their biggest hit I’m in the Mood for Dancing.

She said: “I remember saying to Linda, I might do it next year or the year after and she said: ‘Please do it now, because there were things I was going to do and probably won’t now.’”

Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, which has since spread to her brain. Sister Bernie died from breast cancer in 2013 at the age of 52. Meanwhile, their sister Anne was diagnosed with breast cancer for a second time three years ago. Coleen herself recently had a carcinoma removed from her shoulder and has pre-melanomas on her face, which require treatment.

She said: “Cancer just loves our family. I very much live with the fear that I could be next. I go and see a breast specialist every year and I get a mammogram every two years and I constantly check myself. You could worry yourself to death and some days I do, but I’m trying not to live in a bubble of anxiety. ’ve been very lucky in love. I’ve had two great marriages. Although they didn’t last, when they were good, they were great marriages and we’ve got three beautiful children. And I’ve been very lucky to find a fantastic love again.”