Coleen Nolan has finally revealed the identity of her brand new mystery man.
Yesterday saw the television personality introduce her 57-year-old boyfriend Michael Jones, whom she met on the popular dating app Tinder, via an exclusive photo-shoot and first ever joint interview.
Joining her fellow Loose Women on today's lunch-time panel, Blackpool-born Nolan, 56, who has previously remained rather secretive about her latest love interest, explained that the pair now both feel ready to let the world into the newly-formed romance.
Speaking on the show about her new bae, Nolan revealed: "He is the most laid-back, calm, takes-everything-in-his-stride guy I've ever met.
"It was like he'd always been doing them [interviews]. I was a nervous wreck, I was the one that was embarrassed, nervous, worried about him because it's just a strange world, isn't it, to come into?
"He has just had a very, very lovely, normal life and then I throw him in with all you lot and it's like - wow!"
She revealed that the two will have been together for seven months from next week, having met online last summer.
"You know me," she added. "Normally I meet someone and they've either moved in within a week or I'm pregnant or I'm married within the first month!
"I'm straight-out saying it, and this time around I did want to keep it as quiet as possible and private as possible and to myself as much as possible."
Fellow divorcee and logistics worker for a supermarket chain Michael, has been praised by Coleen for helping her feel "calm" as well as happy.
He has a 20-year-old son from his own previous relationship, while his marriage to another partner ended when he was in his 30s.
Discussing their decision to keep their relationship under the radar, Nolan admitted: "I think it's helped me and him get to know each other away from all of this, and that's been nice.
"He's just really gentle and lovely and he brings such calm to my very hectic life."
Nolan was previously married to EastEnders star Shane Ritchie, with whom she shares two sons, for seven years before divorcing in 1999.
Two years later, she and long-term boyfriend Ray Fensome welcomed a daughter, Ciara. The Leeds-born musician proposed in 2005 on her 40th birthday, however in 2018 the pair announced their divorce following two years of marital difficulties.
Nolan revealed yesterday that her first date with Michael saw the lovebirds meet at the pub for a 5pm drink before downing their pints and being "kicked off" by staff at 11 o' clock.
Their respective children have now all met, and the pair have discussed how they are enjoying blending their families together.
"I think it's been an adjustment for the kids," she added. "And certainly for Ciara, because obviously Ciara has had me to herself really for the last four or five years and we've become a really tight unit.
"But although her boyfriend lives with us as well now, it was hard for Ciara at first and hard to see a man come in and be tactile and do everything with me because Ray, her dad, wasn't like that really."
Describing how she fell for her new man, Nolan explained: "Initially, he was so the opposite of anyone I'd ever met before and been out with before and initially that was - not putting me off - but it was just freaking me out a bit.
"He was so, 'It's okay, I'll do that' - he's not 'too nice' as in boring, there's a line - and he won't let me away with anything!
"He's just caring and laid back and helping me and I was like, 'I'm just not used to this'."
