Coleen Nolan tells of nearly becoming victim of Jimmy Savile aged 14

Coleen Nolan has told the frightening story of how she nearly became a victim of paedophile Jimmy Savile.

Coleen, 54, revealed that Savile had invited her to his hotel room after her sisters had been on Top of the Pops, which Savile hosted.

He died in 2011, and the following year he was exposed as a paedophile and has since been identified by a joint Scotland Yard and NSPCC investigation as one of the UK's biggest sexual predators.

Over more than 50 years, estimates put his number of victims in the hundreds.

Speaking to Dan Wootton on his talkRADIO Drive Time show, she told: "I remember Jimmy Savile invited me to his hotel when I was 14, when my sisters were doing Top of the Pops.


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"He didn't do it in front of them, but I went back after the show and I said, 'Jimmy Savile's invited me back to his hotel suite' and not thinking anything of it and not thinking I would go because to me even then he was just an old, ugly man, but my sisters were like, 'Did he now?' "

Coleen added: "Luckily my sisters and I had been in the business so I was kind of surrounded by older, lecherous guys at that point.

"Also, my sisters protected me, but I thought since then that if I had just been a young fan and thought 'wow', he was massive in his day, you would be so thrilled to tell your friends. Awful."


She also opened up about the death of her sister Bernie in 2013, and how her experience with social media after her death convinced her to leave Twitter .

"The only thing I'm still on is Instagram ," she continued, "Twitter I've been on for a good…probably not long after Bernie, my sister, died.

"Even then, the day she died, I remember getting a tweet saying , 'I hope you die of cancer like your sister.'

"Literally, the day she died, and I just thought, 'Nah. I don't want this on my phone. I don't want these people in my life.'

"99 per cent of the comments I get on social media are so lovely, from lovely, intelligent humans, but sadly it's that one per cent that stays in your brain.

"I had so many lovely messages the day my sister died and that one stayed with me for a few days, and I thought, 'No, I can't do this.'

"I wouldn't go down the street and give a stranger my mobile telephone number, and yet I've opened my mobile telephone to hundreds of thousands of people.

"They may as well phone me up, because it's the same thing. So I haven't missed it.

"I definitely feel my mental health has been so much better because of it."

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