Coleen Nolan has secretly been living with a TV competition winner after the 21-year-old was estranged from her mother.
The Loose Women star rehoused Orlagh Hartnett after she stepped in to offer her guidance, and now she refers to her as her secret "daughter".
Orlagh has just been crowned the winner of E4's Fred's Last Resort and moved into Nolan's Cheshire home last year.
The pizza waitress joked to the Sun: "Honestly, my birthday card is Orlagh, the daughter I never wanted!"
The 21-year-old bagged £10,000 prize money after she won the show, hosted by First Date's Fred Sirieix.
The series saw 12 young people compete for a top hospitality contract during the summer season at a five-star hotel on the French Riviera.
During her appearance on the show, Orlagh kept her relationship to the star quiet and fellow contestants had no idea of the connection until they visited her at home.
Orlagh said: "I didn't tell anyone on the show who she was, or who I lived with. When the recruits came round to my house afterwards I was like 'this is Coleen and I live with her."
The winner first met Coleen when she was just seven and spent time at her home growing up.
Orlagh left home at 16 and contact dwindled with her own mum.
She added: “As awful and upsetting the situation is I have to pick myself up everyday and get on with life and go get what I want.
“The support that Coleen’s given me has been…honestly, I don't know what I do without her.”
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