Kerry Katona recalls Rolf Harris encounter after Coleen Nolan ‘kissed on lips aged 10’
EXCLUSIVE: Kerry Katona has opened up about working with Rolf Harris on SMTV and the tragic death of Caroline Flack’s brother Paul in her latest new! magazine column…
Kerry Katona opened up about meeting Rolf Harris
Kerry Katona has reflected on her time working with Rolf Harris. She said she had to appear alongside him on children’s TV show SMTV: Live, saying he was a “very grumpy old man”.
It comes after a new documentary about the disgraced star titled Rolf Harris: Primetime Predator aired. She wrote in her New magazine column: “I haven’t seen the Rolf Harris documentary but I did see Coleen Nolan claiming that he’d repeatedly insist on ‘kissing her on the lips’ when she was 10.
“I worked with him once on SMTV. All I remember was a very grumpy old man. I don’t worry about my kids if they were to go into showbiz though – they’re so emotionally mature. They know more about boundaries than I ever did at their age!”
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Kerry also worked with Rolf Harris
Speaking on Loose Women about meeting Rolf as a child, Coleen said: “I thought ‘oh I don’t like it if he goes to kiss me’ because he always tried to kiss you on the lips. And with a ten-year-old that’s just weird.
“I straightaway thought that was weird so I’d be like [swerve away] so I just wouldn’t kiss him, it was always slightly mouth open.”
Speaking about her famous sisters in the The Nolans she added: “When it all came out into the public domain and everything was talked about and discussed, their instinct was ‘oh I’m not surprised.’
“Whereas I was like: ‘What? Rolf Harris? Because to me he was, when I was 10, obviously, he was fun, he played the instruments and loved animals. So I never picked up on that apart from the kissing side of things.”
Kerry Katona is on tour with Super Troupers (Image: Instagram)
Elsewhere in her column she said: “By the time you read this, I’ll have finished my run of Super Troopers. I loved it so much, but it took a lot out of me – especially juggling it with other projects and just being a mum!
“I have some nice Pride appearances this month, then I’m taking August off, just to spend quality time with Paolo and the kids. I’ve been in fight or flight mode for 44 years and now I have a really special set-up with my family – I want to stop and appreciate that.”