Linda Nolan tells sisters her cancer spread in At Home With The Nolans

Linda Nolan remained defiant when she informed her sisters her cancer had spread in her liver during an emotional clip from their show At Home With The Nolans.

The singer, 61, tried to remain positive despite the diagnosis in scenes set to air on Tuesday’s episode as they enjoyed a socially distant drink in a bar together, and she claimed the cancer is ‘not going to beat me.’

Arriving after seeing the doctor, she said: ‘Well I have to sit down and tell you that it’s not good news. The tumours in my liver, some of them have gone but some of them have got a bit bigger.’

Linda confirmed she would have to get more chemotherapy, this time in the form of pills, as her sister Maureen -who she visited the hospital with- added: ‘They [the tumours] have minutely got bigger.’

Anne was particularly upset by the news as she grew emotional and said: ‘I’m just so upset because I thought it was going to be good news.’

Linda was determined to remain positive, as she told the others: ‘It’s good news in that they can still treat it.’

She added: ‘We might have a little cry, and then we’ll have a little laugh, because we always do that. But as long as we have a piña colada at the end of it, we’ll be fine!’

Coleen tried to follow her sister’s example, as she added: ‘I think we have to continue to always try and find the positive.

‘We do grasp opportunities now to spend more time together and to live life and enjoy it for however long we’ve got.’

The Irish singer was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, cellulitis and lymphoedema in her arm in 2007 and secondary cancer on her pelvis in 2017.

However although completing chemotherapy in September, Linda was told just two weeks ago that more tumours have been found on her liver.

Having the last word, Linda said: ‘I’m living with cancer, that’s what I’m doing. It’s not going to beat me. If it does get me eventually, it’ll have had a hard fight, I’ll tell you that!’

When she headed to her appointment earlier in the episode, Linda admitted she was wracked with nerves about it.

‘It’s results day, you know? I wake up and I think “oh, why do I feel like I’m going to the dentist,” because I’m frightened of the dentist,” she explained.

‘I spoke to my counsellor; I had a sort of emergency call, I was feeling really strange about this one. Emotionally, it’s a really tough time.’

While on her way to hospital with Maureen, she said: ‘I could be around 10, 15 years so I don’t want to spend those 10 years going “oh I might die next year.’”‘

Though she said of her fears: ‘There’s always that little tiny person in your head going “but what if there is something there and we can’t treat it?”. How am I going to deal with that?’

After receiving the results of her test and informing her sisters the cancer had spread, she told them of her quest to find love.

As she received a message from one suitor, she said: ‘I’m actually talking to four gentlemen. It’s good fun, flirting a little bit on the phone!’

Linda told her sisters how one man named Steve asked to meet her for afternoon tea, which she decided to agree to after some encouragement from her siblings.

In anticipation of the date, she said: ‘On the cruise it was a laugh and we didn’t get seriously into it. I will find out now if I do want some male company and someone to have dinner with or go on a walk with.’

The pair met at the Lytham Hall in Lancashire, she claimed off camera: ‘Talking to him it kind of relaxed me almost immediately.’

Linda and Steve spoke candidly about their past relationships, with her admitting: ‘This is a big thing for me as well, this is my first date, I hope you know that. I was 15 again, getting ready to come out today!’

After their date came to an end, she gushed: ‘He was just a proper gentleman, the whole way through, really, really nice man.’