Coleen Nolan wants a "friend with benefits".
The ‘Loose Women’ star split from second husband Ray Fensome – the father of her 18-year-old daughter Ciara – 18 months ago and she’s ready to date again but doesn’t want to marry again or even share her home with another man in the future.
Coleen – who also has sons Shane, 30, and 26-year-old Jake with first husband Shane Richie – said: "I don’t want to get married again. I just want to meet someone I can have a lovely relationship with.
"I’d like it to be with someone who has hit place and I have mine and when we want to see each other we do and when we don’t, we don’t. A friend with benefits."
The 54-year-old star is "terrified" at the thought of going on a date.
She told new! magazine: "It’s terrifying. It just mortifies me.
"It’s like, ‘How do you do it?’ "
The ‘I’m In The Mood For Dancing’ singer now believes she and Ray should never have married as they were better as just "friends".
She said: "We’re really good friends and we get on better than we did when we were together."
Asked if the romantic spark has gone, she added: "That’s definitely sailed and it’s made me realise that, apart from Ciara, we should have always just been friends.
"Once we got married and got older, we were very different people.
"We tried to make it work and we could have settled… I think Ray would have settled."
Though she hasn’t been on any dates yet, Coleen thinks she’s easy to get along with in a relationship.
She said: "I’m not a dominant person in a relationship, I’m very placid and easygoing, plus I’m romantic. But I’m not willing to take any s**t."
Coleen Nolan wants ‘friend with benefits’
