00:00Colleen Nolan well, it's not a 20-year age gap now that has been misreported
00:05It has yeah, it's 15 was actually 14 and a half 14 and a half
00:15You know I did celebs go dating and I had the best time and I met lovely guys and I
00:20went on lovely dates
00:21But at the end I thought none of them
00:23I just didn't feel anything other than they're lovely and they could be friends
00:27And I finished that show back in April. I don't think it went on air till May and I'd already
00:31said when I got home
00:32Do you know what? I'm done really if it's meant to be it will be I'm not looking for it
00:36anymore
00:37I'm quite happy not doing dating and
00:41Anything but I just thought I feel like I'm searching all the time and and I just believe in fate
00:47And it's gonna happen it will happen so I was quite settled with that and then I was um I
00:52was at home on my own and
00:55uh and he slid into my dm's what did the kids say say I want to know what the first
00:59it said hey
01:00How you doing or something? Hey? Yeah?
01:03How you doing drink question mark? Yeah, but you must get a lot of messages like that
01:07Oh, thousands
01:08You know what it's like you do get a lot of dm's
01:11No, I don't
01:12I don't
01:14I bet you do
01:14I bet we'll talk about that later
01:15And um
01:16But how did that stand out?
01:17So initially when he first sent the text because I have had messages and I always sent the usual I
01:23always give a heart back or a kiss
01:24Yeah, I always try and reply because I think it's rude
01:26You're very accommodating
01:27So I just say and that's it but then he continued and then all of a sudden he said something
01:32that really made me laugh
01:33Oh, that's a winner for you
01:35It's a winner for me and then it was just really nice having someone to chat to still didn't think
01:40anything of it
01:41Then it got round to so how old are you and he said I'm 46 and I went oh god
01:46now way too young
01:48Yeah, way too young straight away
01:49I said no you're too young the big thing on celebs go dating was I don't want anyone that's um
01:55You know less than 55
01:57What's your reason for that though?
02:00My own insecurity really I thought well they wouldn't fancy me anyway because I'm 61 and I'd wonder why they
02:08did and so there was that
02:09Insecurity I didn't want anyone really with younger kids because I thought I've been through the kid thing
02:14I don't understand that
02:15And um and I didn't want anyone that lived miles away and he's all three of those things
02:20Which made me realize that actually when it's the right one and the real one all those things don't matter
02:25you make them work
02:26So did you say to hit when did you say oh, no, you're too young?
02:29Yeah, did he have to convince you that he didn't bother him?
02:32He couldn't understand what the issue was and then the more we got to know each other he said you
02:38might be that in years
02:39But it's like going out with a kid
