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Coleen Nolan rushed to hospital during Big Brother stint over heart attack fears

Coleen Nolan recalled the scary health ordeal on Loose Women.

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Coleen Nolan has opened up on her terrifying health ordeal after she was rushed to hospital during her Big Brother stint in 2017.

The Loose Women star, 58, recalled the scary incident on the ITV chat show as she and her fellow panellists discussed the new findings that women are 10 times more likely to die from a heart attack than men. Coleen said she was rushed to hospital with symptoms of chest pain after being unable to sleep due to the heaviness on her upper body.


Coleen was taking part in the Channel 5 reality show for the second time in 2017 and began to feel unwell five weeks into filming. "I woke up terrible, terrible chest pains the day before the final," she told viewers.


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"I thought it was heartburn but the chest pains were really bad and I was shaking. They called me into the Diary Room and they called a paramedic and they did two ECGs and they were fine, " Coleen told her ITV co-stars.

After testing at the hospital, Coleen was happy to receive the all-clear from doctors and put the incident down to stress and over-indulgence in the Big Brother house.

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She described her second stint on the iconic reality TV show as "absolutely horrendous" as she was crowned winner of the series. Coleen added that her second time on the show was "much worse" than her 2012 appearance because of the "brutal" tests that creators put in front of the housemates.

"They were relentless. There was something every day and it was always negative. The way some people left... it was fun before. Nobody knows how to play the game better than Big Brother," she said.

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However, Coleen has her sights set on a different reality show and wants to try her hand at Strictly Come Dancing. Coleen said: "It's because I did Dancing On Ice, I've never done Strictly which devastates me. Since that show started, I've always wanted to do Strictly and so many Loose Women have done it but they never, ever ask me.

"But it's because apparently, I did Dancing On Ice, they don't have anyone who's done Dancing On Ice on Strictly."

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