heart transplant. She was series producer of the RTÉ show "Room To Improve" in 2012. Nolan presents The Great Irish Bake Off for TV3 and in 2014 was the Development Executive for COCO Television. As of 2022, Nolan is Head of Development at COCO Content. Personal life Nolan was in a long-term relationship with Dearbhla Walsh, an Emmy Award-winning drama director but in 2014 she told Brendan O’Connor on The Saturday Night Show that she "had to adjust to being single". Big Brother host Davina McCall said that Anna Nolan was the only Big Brother housemate she ever befriended and that in 2023 the two remain in contact. Nolan has also maintained contact with Craig Phillips and Mel Hill. She was also supportive of Jade Goody during her cancer battle, and met her a number of times, even though they featured in separate series of Big Brother. Nolan, who was previously a sister in Dublin's Loreto Order, today considers herself an atheist. On 10 January 2010, she hosted a special one-off programme for RTÉ One television entitled O Sister Where Art Thou? during which she attempted to track down and interview women with whom she had shared noviciate life in the order. At the end of the programme, while in conversation with a fellow former novice, she said: "I don't believe in God. I don't think there's a Heaven or Hell. I believe in the human spirit. I think we all make choices. I think we all have fears and for some people, when they get the fears or worries, they turn to a higher power. I just kind of deal with it. And when I go, that's it; I'm gone into the ground and 'goodbye world'. Which isn't depressing; some people might find it depressing. And I might be wrong and that's the good thing because if I'm wrong I'll get into heaven(!)". References External links 1970 births 20th-century Irish nuns 21st-century Irish people Living people Big Brother (British TV series) contestants The Herald (Ireland) people Former Roman Catholics Former Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns Irish former Christians Irish atheists Irish women's basketball players Irish columnists Irish television journalists Irish television personalities Irish television producers Lesbian entertainers Irish LGBT broadcasters Irish LGBT entertainers LGBT producers RTÉ Radio 1 presenters RTÉ television presenters COCO Television Irish women television producers Women television journalists Irish women columnists Lesbian sportswomen Irish LGBT