Our Loose Panel Look Back at the Two Photographs That Define Their Lives | Loose Women

Wow, it's such a simple but powerful idea, isn't it really lovely? We thought we'd give it a try. We have two

photographs

of key moments in each of our

lives

, so Kelly, do you want to go first and tell us what it is? What will happen here will be this year, at the end of this year it will be 20 years since I won Athens, which is yes, but this particular race is quite significant because since I was 14 I wanted to become an Olympic champion and I saw Sebastian Co win the 1500 meters. I had already won the 800 uh in this circumstance and my 1500 meters was the last one and winning that was obviously more than a dream come true because it's what people don't see behind the victory and the Olympic athlete, you know, the years of the years. of pain, tears, set

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s, all to chase this kind of dream you think you have.

I was also the oldest woman at 34 to win 34, so it was significant, obviously, I think more so because it was 20 years of dreaming and 12 years. of trying and then crossing that line and it's a moment that you can't put into words because people say well, how it felt, but when you do it after so much hope and trying, you almost can't believe it. So when I won the 800 meters, I still to this day can't believe I won the 800 meters at the Olympic championships. You know, I saw it a million times. I have it. I'm not going to give it

back

, but you know? and yes, that was something that one cannot even imagine, you see, but behind that we have another photograph that is a little more personal.

I think so, there you have it, so this, the lady on the left, is my PE teacher Debie Page and the three girls are my best friends from the first day at school and they remain my best friends to the today, but the thing is that with my physical education teacher I don't think I would have become an Olympic champion without her because of what she gave. For me it was a feeling of hope and self-confidence as a child, Debbie, yeah, and you know, because I wasn't academic at all in school and the only reason I went to school was for sports, P.E. and my best friends. because we were kind of like the Misfits at school and um well, I think what I'm most proud of is keeping those long-term friendships, but also they all came in my homecoming parade when I came back from the Olympics and was the first person I called when I got back to Britain to say thank you, so yeah, they mean a lot to me, so love is fantastic right?

And you, Cole, why would you start with Dan Kelly? I was going to be a teacher, well this is The day, 20 years ago, I didn't come home with a gold medal from the Olympics because she won it. Do not you know that? I love this photo of me. I know I'm talking about my kids, but I love this photo of us. four because we rarely have four. I have pictures of me with Jake, me with Kira, me with Shane, but when they said, 'Do you have a picture of you and your kids?', it took me a long time.

I have a lot of family photos with everyone in it and then I found this photo and I thought it melted my heart because it summed up us, you know, like Shane getting mad at me, Jake pretending to laugh hysterically like Denise's comical laugh that you do, and Kira sitting there saying, please get. these guys and this woman away from me and um and you know because they're the kind of reason for me everything I do I oh it's so cheesy and please get sick if you want um but everything I do I do for them you know and they You have kept me in everything you know, sweetheart, take everything and it is always my children who have helped me get ahead and all the family problems that I have had, you know, with illnesses and things like that, they are the ones who keep me go ahead, so yeah, it's beautiful, but the next image, um, which is a disgusting image, but it's, um, when in the first few months or the first year I was in this WOW 2005, um, it first appeared in 99 and then in 2005, yeah, I was kind of a full-time

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ist with you. guys, um, and the reason I chose this is because I really believe that us

loose

women

changed my life like we all do in our

lives

because obviously I grew up with my family, singing, playing records and all that stuff and then I got to an age which then you know, for two years I was, I stayed home with the kids, um and then everything fell apart emotionally and I was like, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do, it's always been like that. the baby of the family so I had never had that kind of confidence to spread my wings and certainly not on my own and then some

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women

invited me over and suddenly my life changed and I found an inner confidence and you guys Help me get through it and stuff Like my family was so shocked because I was the youngest and when we performed, whether in interviews or live on stage, I never spoke, yeah, that drove them crazy, they were like, you have to speak. and I'm like, I hate talking and then I got into Lu and they screwed me G, why did you break up dude?

But being the youngest I never had a chance to talk, yeah, but I remember you actually came on your first show as a guest for us. and we all walked away and said she should be a relaxed woman. I mean, I remember already feeling part of it, already grateful for it. Well, I'll hurry up on mine because Denise has a photo of a scam and a real British sandwich. She wants to hurry. Hurry up, well this is Charlie, my oldest daughter, who had literally a few minutes. I think right now there's my dear mum, who I miss very much, and a lovely midwife, she was such a wonderful woman that midwife, um and uh, that.

I was going to be a mother at 39 and had no idea what to do and as you can see my mom is eager to take that away from me so she can do better herself? So, yeah, that's a lovely photograph to me, and then Next up is God Takes Me Back to You'll Never Believe It Denise. I had a crazy time with you. What is this was a birthday party? I think it was my 22nd birthday and in those days you know Tarzan or whatever was very popular. who you got what's who you got but no no he's a lovely man but anyway he came in and you know they're supposed to pick you up and he was quite small let's say and I saw him come in with his little guy you know whatever I was holding and I thought I could see him measuring me thinking oh God I'm not going to be able to lift it and I was

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ing at it thinking you're not going to be able to lift me up and I thought how would I get out of the situation so I just picked it up like that but how can you see your fabric Lo, I'm not sure I really did it.

Go ahead, give us your cor Denise, let's see it Denise, hi. wake up oh here we are here we are um this was me there you go this was me in soldier soldier we talk a lot about soap operas here so I tend to focus on things like Coronation Street but this was when I played bits of Mara in a series called soldier soldier in the '90s and it was like being sent overseas with your best friends to work there was Robson and Jerome and all the people that were in it and we had to work on everything, um in All the military camps that we were living in with series of favors of life, I really loved them, but when I went to the audition it was a miscommunication and I thought it was just a couple of scenes in an episode that is still God?

I'll be grateful, but I had had some parties the night before. Anyway, I felt a bit hungover when I walked in and they said, "well, obviously, as this is a new lead in the series, we don't want another Jordie because we've got Robson Green and Rosie arguing, so I changed my accent and said, I'm from Wigan and my friend from Wigan was outside Rose and I completely sold a whole identity, I said I'm from Wigan in bold like that and poor Rose would never be able to go get a job because I had completely stolen her identity and then. , of course, Robson and Jerome had the big hit and then I did the "you don't have to say you love me" single straight at 23 and straight away the following week, but I had a single on the charts, the next photo I think. which is from my dear late mother, Annie, and the reason I want to show this

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at my glamorous mother, she got this cabbage, the new new mom didn't You and um, I talk about my dad a lot, he recently left us. in 2021 and my dad was a friend of the show and such a big character, but it was about 13 years ago that my mom died and like you, I just miss him. her every day um mattity my son was so close to his mom he wrote a beautiful song called Nana his big tattoo here says says Nana they are incredibly close and people often say you know you don't talk about your mom much but that's just because because People tend to know my dad, but I miss her, she was a proper lady in the truest sense of the word and she could, um, could become, you know, all our friends said we spent, we spent a fortune, on going, you know, going to this wedding.

My mother appears on CNA and comes out looking like a movie star, she had a lot of style and that was Annie, it's really nice to see because you talk about your mother in private, so it's lovely to see that photograph.