Page 22 of Going Solo (The Brent Boys #2)

EXCLUSIVE! “I don’t belong here”!

Cole’s anguish over long-lost family

Pop’s newest superstar, the Go Tos’ Cole Kennedy, fears he doesn’t belong in Britain and is desperate to find his long-lost family.

The 16-year-old has spoken openly about his adoption by Suffolk dairy farmers Andy and Orla Kennedy, who fostered Cole after he was given up for adoption by his birth parents.

But now The Bulletin can exclusively reveal Cole’s private anguish at the family and future he lost when his birth parents abandoned him, and the mystery surrounding his mixed-race heritage.

Cole told a friend he felt he couldn’t “shake the feeling I’m living in the wrong country, maybe growing up in the wrong religion, and certainly in the wrong culture.”

The teenage heart-throb was also haunted by the fact he might still have blood relatives alive who “might not even know I exist.” Tragically, Cole told friends he feared tracing his birth family would “kill” his adoptive parents, who might “think they’re not enough”…

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