Coleen Nolan says Jimmy Savile invited her to his hotel room when she was a child

‘I just thought: you dirty old man,’ said Loose Women star

Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has revealed that paedophile Jimmy Savile made advances towards her when she was 14.

Speaking to Piers Morgan in his interview show Life Stories, which airs tonight (18 March), she recalled how Savile invited her to his hotel room in 1979 after she and her sisters, who were in a band called The Nolans, appeared on Top of the Pops.

“He said he had a suite in a hotel and I should go up and see it and he’d look after me,” Nolan told Morgan.

“At the time I just thought, ‘You dirty old man. As if I’m going to go up there.’ I wouldn’t do it anyway. I’ve got four sisters on the stage that would have beaten the crap out of him.”

Nolan said she “was not in any way shocked” when the TV presenter’s abuse was revealed.

Following Savile’s death in 2011, 450 alleged victims of sexual abuse contacted the Metropolitan Police in just 10 weeks, with officials describing the scale of allegations against him as "unprecedented".

Read more:

• Netflix secret codes: How to access hidden films
• The Simpsons producer defends series after Homer is rewritten as a teenager in the Nineties
• Piers Morgan’s comments on Meghan and Harry interview trigger record 57,000 Ofcom complaints

The final episode of Piers Morgan’s Life Stories is being broadcast at 9pm as planned, despite the presenter’s departure from Good Morning Britain last week in the wake of his controversial comments about Meghan Markle.