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Coleen Nolan’s ex Shane Richie admits he was a s*** husband as hi lifts lid on ill-fated marriage
Shane Ritchie has admitted he was a ‘s*** husband’ to ITV Loose Women panellist Coleen Nolan, as he lifted the lid on the pair’s ill-fated marriage.
The celebrity pair stayed together for nearly a decade before splitting. However, it has been said their relationship began to break down after they both struggled with infidelity.
The pair aren’t shy about speaking out about their relationship and what ultimately led to their divorce. In a recent interview with Kaye Adams on her podcast How To Be 60, Shane said: “Me and Coleen were babies when we were together, we became parents when we were very young.
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“That was first and foremost my job was father and a husband. I’m not sure I was a great husband but I’m pretty sure I was a good dad.
“I think Coleen will probably admit I was a s*** husband,” he added.
Blackpool’s Coleen and Shane first met in 1986 when they were in their early twenties. At first, the couple had planned to wed in a big ceremony four years later, but instead called it off and eloped to Florida, reports the Express.
Coleen previously said on Loose Women: “Shane pulled me to one side and said, ‘I can’t do this. I feel like we’re just being told to turn up on the day and it’s nothing to do with us,’ so we cancelled it all and eloped and didn’t tell anybody.”
Despite problems on both sides, the pair went on to have two sons, Jake Roche, 30, and Shane Richie Jr, 34. But, it then didn’t take Coleen to become suspicious when she spotted a brunette woman in the corner of a room at an industry party for one of Shane’s musicals in 1996.
She recalled: “At the after-show party I can distinctly remember examining this one girl. There were loads of people there but she just stood out. She had really long dark hair and was wearing a skin-tight white dress.
“Well, it must have been female intuition because that turned out to be the girl Shane had an affair with.”
In his autobiography Rags to Riches, Shane confirmed he had cheated on Coleen with the dancer and actress in question, Claire Taylor.
“I was lying so much that I couldn’t remember which story I’d told to each of them. And I’d lie to cover up the lies,” he said.
Coleen previously said she would visit her then-husband in Manchester where he was working but he didn’t make the time for her. Since then, Coleen and Shane have been able to put their differences aside and formed a friendship as they co-parented their two children.
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