‘i’m scared of getting hurt again’

Coleen

It’s safe to say that Coleen Nolan has been pretty unlucky in love during her many years in the spotlight. Married to Shane Richie in 1990, they split in 1997 after he cheated on her, and her second marriage, to Ray Fensome, came to an end in 2018 after 11 years.

She thought she’d finally found her happily ever after in logistics worker Michael Jones, but their romance came to an end last spring, when he reportedly finished things after struggling to cope with Coleen’s fame.

Woman’s Own recently reported that the pair are giving things another go and even spent Boxing Day together. But it seems Coleen is so terrified of getting hurt again, she’s struggling to relax into the relationship, with a source now exclusively telling us that Coleen will ‘never marry again’. So can it ever be a happy ending for the couple?

DAMAGED BY THE PAST

Coleen recently revealed how scared she is of tying the knot again. ‘I’ve gone through two divorces and have come out the other side, and I suppose, if I’m honest, I’m still a little bit terrified of letting that happen to me again,’ she confessed.

And a source tells us that Coleen has now ruled out marriage for good. ‘Marriage would definitely be off the cards for Coleen, especially given how public the divorces were. Plus, neither Shane nor Ray got on with her sisters, which has always caused problems.’

It seems being dumped by Michael has left Coleen with some deep wounds, as this is a stark contrast to the mindset she had before their break-up last April, when she admitted that marriage was ‘inevitable’ and something they ‘talk about all the time’.

FACING FACTS

While Coleen was clearly in love with Michael, previously admitting ‘there aren’t enough adjectives’ to describe how happy he made her, it seems that she’s not banking on it working out. The star – who writes as an agony aunt – when responding to a reader keen to rekindle a former flame, said, ‘He’s the one who got away and it’s a natural human reaction to w