LOOSE Women star Coleen Nolan has revealed TV bosses told her she needed a gastric band and to lose weight if she wanted a successful career on the box.
The presenter, whose weight has fluctuated over the years, says she was also warned that an evening show on prime television might also be out of her reach because of her age.
Coleen, 55, said: "I have had a head of a big TV company saying: ‘if you want to get in prime time television you should get a gastric band, you’re too big to present prime time.’ "I’ve had: ‘oh, you’re getting on a bit now, so maybe you’re not right for prime time.’ "And yet you see all these guys in prime time, some overweight, some certainly in their 60s and 70s. "There don’t seem to be any women of a certain age.
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