Personal Life
Nolan was born and brought up in Blackpool. She married Shane Richie in 1990, and they had two sons, Shane Roche Jr (born 2 December 1988) and Jake Roche (born 16 September 1992), together before splitting up in 1997 and divorcing in 1999. She gave birth to a daughter, Ciara, on Tuesday 19 June 2001 and became engaged to her longtime boyfriend Ray Fensome (a musician who is from Leeds, West Yorkshire) when he proposed on her 40th birthday in 2005. They married in November 2007.
Nolan has undertaken charity work for the Alzheimer's Society, including cycling the Nile River in Egypt. Her late mother, Maureen, was a sufferer. In 2006 Nolan opened the first Alzheimer's Society information centre on the Fylde coast.
Nolan's mother died on 30 December 2007.
In March 2008, Nolan supported a Learn Direct national campaign to improve English and maths skills, and in April she helped launch Sentry Parental Controls, a real-time content-control software that that logs, notifies and blocks inappropriate internet content that may be unsuitable for children.
In January 2008, Nolan claimed that various slimming techniques had enabled her to drop five dress sizes and 5 stone (70 lb) in weight to 8 st 13 lb and size 10. Whilst participating on Dancing on Ice, Nolan had a cancer scare after finding a lump in her breast, but was later given the all-clear.
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