Coleen Nolans Year from Hell: Financial Woes and Feuds

She has sold millions of records, written bestselling books, toured theatres, survived reality television and spent 26 years perched around the table.

So when insisted last week that she was ‘far from a millionaire’, plenty found it difficult to believe.

After all, generations watched her glide from Seventies chart fame into the cosy, seemingly lucrative world of daytime television – complete with Loose Women pay cheques, reality show circuits and the sort of career many fading celebrities spend years desperately trying to cling on to.

But behind the fixed grin of daytime television and her sprawling Staffordshire farm lies a considerably less glamorous reality.

For I can reveal that Nolan’s company, Tufty Productions Limited, collapsed into liquidation earlier this year owing more than £118,000 to , according to documents filed at Companies House.

Corporation tax accounted for more than £74,000 of the debt alone, while the company had also racked up thousands more in PAYE, National Insurance and penalties and interest – suggesting the financial problems had been mounting quietly behind the scenes for some time.

‘Coleen has made a living discussing everybody else’s scandals and financial troubles on daytime television, yet her own company has collapsed owing six figures to HMRC,’ one source tells me

And despite the eye-watering liabilities, there appeared to be remarkably little left behind.

Liquidators valued the company’s furniture and equipment at just £151, while the estimated recoverable value of its assets was repeatedly listed as ‘NIL’ or ‘uncertain’.

In one particularly awkward detail, documents show Nolan received more than £152,000 through a director’s loan account in the year before the company collapsed, with more than £110,000 still outstanding at year end.

By the time the company folded, Tufty Productions’ total net assets stood at a wafer-thin £1,387.

And with ITV simultaneously slashing Loose Women’s output amid sweeping daytime cuts, it is therefore perhaps little surprise Nolan has spent the past year desperately seeking out fresh revenue streams.

In February, the presenter embarked on a seven-date UK tour titled This Is Me – an evening of what promoters described as ‘unfiltered stories’ from her life alongside ‘a couple of songs that reflect my life’.

Fans willing to pay £102 for VIP tickets were promised a pre-show meet and greet with the television star and the best seats in the house, while standard admission cost £31.50.

The tour followed her earlier Naked Tour in 2024, which drew unflattering commentary after clips of Nolan singing on stage circulated on social media.

But perhaps the clearest sign yet of her determination to keep cashing in came when she signed up for the most recent series of Celebs Go Dating. The fee, sources tell me, would have been around £40,000 – a payday not to be scoffed at for a couple of weeks’ work.

Insiders say the 61-year-old likely hoped the E4 series would kill two birds with one stone: boost the bank balance while finally landing the elusive happy ending she has spent years searching for.

‘I’m known for being a Loose Woman,’ she declared in promotional clips. ‘So let‘s see if my dates can handle it.’

Channel 4 bosses had hoped Nolan would become the series’ resident ‘cougar’, with younger suitors lined up for the Loose Women panellist.

There was, however, something quietly bleak about the spectacle of a veteran daytime star – once one of ITV’s most dependable fixtures – sitting beneath the fluorescent lights of a reality dating show searching for validation from younger men.

And despite entering the agency proclaiming she was ‘ready to find the love of [her] life’, the Daily Mail understands Nolan ultimately failed to find lasting romance during filming and came away empty-handed.

‘She had a great time,’ says a friend of the star. ‘But she didn’t find love, she hoped she would but it just didn’t happen for her.

‘It was a bit disappointing for her.’

No whirlwind relationship, no glamorous reinvention – and no fairytale ending to distract from the mounting difficulties and financial anxiety that has only deepened amid brutal cuts at ITV, where the once-reliable gravy train of daytime television is slowing.

In short, it has been something of an annus horribilis for Nolan which began when she was told of the ITV cuts last summer.

Loose Women – long marketed as a glossy celebration of female friendship, celebrity gossip and sisterly camaraderie – has been dramatically scaled back as part of sweeping cost-cutting measures across the broadcaster’s daytime output.

The programme has moved from year-round broadcasting to just 30 weeks a year, while its traditional 100-strong studio audience has been axed altogether.

Meanwhile, the panel has quietly relocated from White City in London to significantly smaller studios at Celebro – privately mocked by insiders as resembling a ‘broom cupboard’.

Now, with fewer episodes being commissioned and celebrity bookings dramatically reduced, stars are understood to be facing substantial drops in their income.

The irony is unlikely to be lost on Nolan.

Because after spending years discussing other people’s problems around the Loose Women table, it seems her own have become increasingly difficult to keep private.