Zara Arabella, Daily US Times, London, UK: TV presenter Caroline Flack has died at the age of 40. A lawyer for her family reported that Flack had died by suicide. Days before she was attributable to face trial for assaulting her boyfriend.
The previous host of ITV2’s Love Island is reported to have been found at her house in London on Saturday.
People asking about her boyfriend, because a day after her boyfriend Lewis Burton tried to contact her. She had been forbidden by a judge from communicating with Burton before the trial, which was attributable to start on 4 March.
A statement from her family mentioned: “We can confirm that our Caroline passed away today, 15 February.
“We’d ask that the press respect the privateness of the family at this difficult time and we’d ask they make no attempt to contact us and/or [photograph] us.”
A lawyer for the Flack family informed the Press Association that Caroline took her own life and was found in her East London flat.
TV host with the popular appeal
As the Love Island host for 4 years, the winner of 2014’s Strictly Come Dancing and presenter of hit reveals like The X Factor, Flack was one of the most in-demand and well-loved personalities on British TV.
Flack presented a lot of UK TV’s biggest reality TV shows and their spinoffs, from the X-Factor to I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here Now!, and won the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.
However, she hit a disaster when she was arrested in December for assault and was charged with attacking Burton, 27, with a lamp at their home in Islington.
Katie Weiss, prosecuting, told that court that Burton had “received a significant injury to his head”.
“He mentioned he had been asleep and was hit over the top by Caroline with a lamp, inflicting a visible cut to his head,” Weiss mentioned. “She had also smashed glass and she had sustained injury.”
Weiss mentioned police officers found the couple covered in blood after they arrived on the scene. However, Burton had not supported the prosecution, in accordance with Flack’s lawyer, Paul Morris.
Choose Julia Newton released Flack on bail however imposed conditions on her, forbidding her from contacting Burton in any manner till the trial.
Caroline Flack made her a fixture within the tabloids
Last week, Burton, a former skilled tennis player, posted a picture of the couple collectively and wrote: “Happy Valentine’s Day”. Flack posted a picture of her own, of a dog.
Tabloids such as the Sun which broke the news of her dying moved swiftly to delete recent negative stories about Flack.
Many followers grew with her since her breakthrough co-hosting Saturday morning show TMi with Sam and Mark on CBBC in 2007.
From there, she went on to front Gladiators on Sky One, ITV2’s I am A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! spin-off and The Xtra Factor, earlier than moving to The X Factor itself with Olly Murs in 2015.
Her attraction and popular appeal made her a perfect selection when Love Island was relaunched in 2015, and she helped make it one of the greatest shows on British TV.
Her profile made her a fixture within the tabloids, and her relationships – including with One Direction star Harry Kinds and rumours about Prince Harry- put her on the entrance pages.
However, her career was within the balance after her arrest on suspicion of assault in December, main her to be replaced on Love Island by Laura Whitmore.
Caroline Flack: Dear God, Shocked beyond belief
BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker was among the people paying tribute to Flack following news of her death.
He tweeted: “Awful news about Caroline Flack. We really must be better at taking care of one another. So unhappy.”
Eamonn Holmes tweeted: “Caroline Flack…. Dear God. Shocked beyond belief. Might she have discovered peace? Rip Needs to be repercussions for Love Island now absolutely?”
This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield paid tribute to Flack with a submit on his Instagram stories.
He added text above a message that Flack had posted on social media, which read: “In a world the place you could be anything, be kind.”
Davina McCall was amongst these paying tribute, tweeting: “I do not even know what to say. However my heart goes out to her family and friends x I might be a bit quiet tonight on social media .. simply does not appear right.”
Former Love Island contestant Amber Davies, who won the series in 2017, tweeted: “My heart is definitely damaged.”
This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield paid tribute with a post on Instagram.
He wrote: “You poor darling girl my heart is breaking #BeKind”.
Who’s Caroline Flack?
According to Wikipedia, Caroline Louise Flack was an English radio and tv presenter. She began her career as an actress, starring in Bo’ Selecta! in 2002 and introduced varied ITV2 spin-off shows similar to I am a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! NOW! from 2009 till 2010 and The Xtra Factor from 2011 till 2013.
Flack won the twelfth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2014 and the next yr started presenting on series such as Love Island and The X Factor, changing long-standing presenter Dermot O’Leary on the latter.
Flack was born in Enfield, London, and attended Great Hockham Major Faculty and Wayland Group High Faculty in Watton, Norfolk.
In 2011, Flack made headlines when, then aged 31, she was in a relationship with One Direction member Harry Kinds, who was 17 on the time. In 2015, she came 5th in FHM’s Sexiest Girls.
BREAKING: Caroline Flack found dead
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