Loose Women’s Kaye Adams and Coleen Nolan share their experiences of workplace sexual harassment â but some viewers were not impressed with the advice they gave
Loose Women stars Kaye Adams and Coleen Nolan have opened up sexual harassment they faced from men in their early careers on today’s episode of Loose Women.
Coleen shared it was a “terrible time” for women when she was part of girl band The Nolans with her sisters at the height of their fame in the ’70s and ’80s. “You did get guys coming up and pinching your bum,” she revealed. Explaining how she dealt with it, the 58-year-old said: “I’d just turn around and go, âIf you do that again, I’ll going to knock your head off mate!â I didn’t have to run somewhere and say, I want him fired.”
Kaye then detailed her experience when she was working as a young journalist, but said she dealt with unwanted advances slightly differently. She told the audience in the ITV studio: “There were a few occasions where older men did very much overstep the mark… and at 22 I just did not have the confidence at that point to turn around and say take a hike. They were my boss and I was scared that I would lose my job.”
Viewers took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their own experiences with one saying: “I got loads of harassment at aged 18 in my first job. It would be nice to think that things have got better since those days #loosewomen.” Another said: “#loosewomen I was in a job in my 20s and one of the girls said the boss is a bit touchy feely so don’t be alone with him… as though this is normal and no one actually mentioned or took it further!”