Loose Women’s Coleen Nolan Shares Worries for Daughter Ahead of Life-Changing Milestone trucc
Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has opened up about her fears over her daughter Ciara's love life before she got engaged to her now-fiancé Maxx Innes with the pair now expecting a baby
Coleen Nolan has opened up about her initial concerns regarding her daughter's romantic relationship before the engagement announcement.
During an episode of the Loose Women: Just Between Us podcast, Coleen and fellow ITV presenter Jane Moore tackled a listener's dilemma concerning her daughter's new partner.
Jane, relaying the concerns of a listener called Joanne, explained there was "something about him" that didn't sit right with her.
Whilst he "treats her well", Joanne worried they came from contrasting backgrounds and believed her daughter could "do better".
Jane responded by suggesting she sounded rather "snobby", with her co-presenter nodding in agreement.
Coleen, who has three children, highlighted that since he treats her daughter well, "isn't that all you want?"
She encouraged Joanne to allow her daughter to "live her own life a bit".
The pair, with Jane and Coleen - mother to sons Shane Jr and Jake from her marriage to ex-husband Shane Richie, plus daughter Ciara with former partner Ray Fensome - then shared their own stories about bringing boyfriends home to meet the parents.
This sparked a discussion about Ciara and how Coleen first encountered her daughter's fiancé, Maxx Innes (the pair are now awaiting their first baby).
She revealed that whilst she harboured initial doubts, he has since shown himself to be "absolutely brilliant".
Coleen disclosed that he performed guitar in Shane's group, and their first meeting occurred at a family gathering. She continued: "She came out and I was sitting outside with my friend, and she said, 'Oh, Mum, she said, 'The guitarist'. She went, 'I might have to kiss him; he's very attractive'.
"And I went: 'Oh God, how funny; what's she like? And she walked in, and I said to my friend, 'Oh God, no, please don't let her end up with a musician because I'd just divorced one, that being her dad."
Coleen revealed that her worries quickly disappeared once the pair began their romance.
She remarked it was the "best thing that's ever happened", with Jane responding that he's a "nice young man".
Coleen went on to say he's "absolutely brilliant".
Reports surfaced in April last year suggesting Maxx had popped the question to Ciara during their Vietnamese getaway.
Following the proposal, Ciara shared a photograph of the couple's intertwined hands, showing off her sparkling new engagement ring, reports the Mail.
She captioned her post: "It was like a fairytale and I can't wait to spend forever with you @maxxiness I love you xxx."
Meanwhile, Coleen turned to Instagram to share her own photograph alongside heartfelt congratulations.
She posted: "Well what can I say... I'm so so delighted that @maxxinnes has asked my beautiful girl @ciarafensome to marry him.
"I love them both sooooo much. Miss them even more! Can't wait to see them. Off to buy a hat."
Melissa Gorga Reveals 'Nightmare' Experience on Wife Swap: Real Housewives Edition trucc
Find out what sent RHONJ's Melissa Gorga into "sensory overload" on Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition.
After jetting off to Georgia for Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition, Melissa Gorga instantly clocked some things that would never fly in her Garden State home.
As part of the social experiment, the perfectionist mom from The Real Housewives of New Jersey first stepped outside her comfort zone and adopted swap counterpart Michelle Clark's more free-flowing lifestyle, including lax rules for her three children (Sean Jr., 8, Phoenix, 7, and Maverick, 3), as well as a an emphasis on quality family time over household cleaning and organization.
After helping prepare a vegan meal for the kids — while she begrudgingly joined swap husband Sean Clark in a juice cleanse — Melissa encountered one of the experience's biggest challenges: going to bed with dirty dishes still in the kitchen sink.
Though Sean insisted they could just clean up later, Melissa still asked, "Really? Are you sure? I'm in sensory overload."
As the RHONJ 'Wife further declared to a producer, "Oh my god, this is my nightmare. I am in a different world right now. Like, we're just gonna go to bed and leave that all in the sink right now? None of what goes on in this house goes on in mine."
Melissa Gorga reflects on her Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition experience
Melissa noted that she joined Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition to learn "to just let some things go," after husband Joe Gorga said that her rigidity in their Franklin Lakes, N.J. home was "too much" to handle, at times. Post-filming, she opened up about the experience and what she learned in the process in an exclusive interview with The Daily Dish.
Referring to the Clark kids as "the sweetest, most polite, amazing children," the real-life mom to Antonia, 20, Gino, 18, and Joey Gorga, 15, said she "couldn't have gotten luckier" to be paired with the East Point, Georgia-based family. That's at least partly because seeing Sean's hands-on approach to fatherhood taught Melissa a valuable parenting lesson.
"Everything was a learning experience," she elaborated. "I'm like, wow, I spent a lot of time with my kids, but I don't make everything a learning experience when it really could be. ... So, I think just with motherhood, it gave me a lot of insight."
Though she still keeps her house "spotless," nowadays, Melissa "for sure" channels her swap husband when faced with parenting challenges. She added, "When something happens with my children, I think, like, 'What would Sean do? What would Sean have a conversation about right now?'"
Having introduced more structure and organization into the Clark family's highly intertwined lives on the show, Melissa, in turn, also hoped that she taught Sean and Michelle a thing or two about the importance of taking some alone time amid their daily "grind" as well.
"Divide and conquer does work," she remarked. "And you can think a little bit when you have some time on your own and you're not together 24/7."
Where Melissa Gorga stands with her Wife Swap family now
Even after filming wrapped, Melissa said she stayed in touch with the Clark family — and is still in close contact with them today.
"I talk to them all the time," she revealed. "They're an amazing family. They're trying to come out to New Jersey to hang out with us. They're originally from New York, so when they come to visit their family, we're going to see them."
After Melissa stepped in to finish off the couple's 10-day cleanse — and Michelle whipped up some healthy beverages for the Gorgas back in Jersey — on Wife Swap's Oct. 28 episode, the Clarks even shipped her an appropriate gift.
As Melissa further shared, "They sent me the most amazing juicer recently."
