Anne Nolan gives emotional bucket list update following cancer news
Anne Nolan has opened up about her bucket list ambitions following a major cancer update this week, admitting it might be "too late" to achieve them all. Appearing on Good Morning Britain this morning, the 74-year-old revealed she is now cancer-free for the second time and hopes to check off a few remaining milestones.
When asked what type of stuff was on her bucket list by presenter Ed Balls, Anne said: "I'd love to go to Krakow and visit the camps. I sent my daughter there as a gift for her wedding. She went and said it was so moving. I've always wanted to go there."
"I've always wanted to learn an instrument but I don't know if it's too late for me," she continued.
"I'd love to learn an instrument. Piano or acoustic guitar. With acoustic guitar, you go to parties and can take it out to play along for the family."
"I'd love to learn a language - French or Italian. I don't know if it's going to happen. I've also never learnt to swim so I would love to learn to swim," she added.
The singer, best known as one-sixth of The Nolans alongside her sisters, also shared the emotional moment she found out she was cancer-free, the Mirror reports. Anne was first diagnosed with cancer in 2000 and in 2020, she learnt she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
"It's been very traumatic, when I received the letter a few weeks ago, I picked it up, and it said NHS, and I thought, 'Oh I don't want to know, I'm not sure if I want to know if it's bad news,'" she told Good Morning Britain.
"And I put it aside for about ten minutes, and after a while my logical brain kicked in and said, 'You have to find out, you need to know'."
"I opened it and it was all good news, and I had a bit of a weep at the beginning. I feel lucky, blessed, relieved, and then emotional thinking about my sisters having gone through the same thing but not surviving."
Over the weekend, Anne spoke to The Mirror sharing that she thought about her late sisters, Linda and Bernie, both of whom she lost to cancer. Linda passed away in January this year at the age of 65, while Bernie died in 2013 at 52.
She opened up, saying: "Although I was absolutely thrilled, I did think about them."
"I didn't feel guilty because it's nothing to do with me but I did feel sad that they weren't as lucky as I was. It's an emotional thing for me to think about them not surviving and then I did survive. But that's just the luck of the draw."
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