Carole Caplin was born on 8 January 1962 and is a British former health consultant, who was the style adviser to Cherie Blair and a fitness adviser to Tony Blair, when he was the British prime minister.
13 Facts About Carole Caplin
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Carole Caplin sparked media interest because of her relationship with the convicted conman Peter Foster.
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Carole Caplin's mother divorced her father, a furrier, when Caplin was a toddler.
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Carole Caplin was educated at Glendower, a private school in South Kensington, Lillsden School for Girls, a boarding school in Kent, and Hurlingham and Chelsea Secondary School.
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Carole Caplin appeared as a child actor in the film Accident, and in television advertisements.
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Carole Caplin had a relationship with Adam Ant in 1981.
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Later Carole Caplin set up a series of health and well-being companies.
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In 2002, Carole Caplin hit the newspaper headlines in the scandal referred to as "Cheriegate" because of her involvement with Peter Foster, an Australian with criminal convictions, who assisted the Prime Minister's wife, Cherie Blair, in the purchase of two flats in Bristol.
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Carole Caplin was caught out when Foster provided evidence that she had lied.
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Carole Caplin then made a public apology, tearfully reading a prepared statement blaming her "misfortune" on the pressures of running a family and being a mother.
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Carole Caplin again tried to distance herself from Foster, but it was later revealed that she and Tony Blair had agreed to be godparents to the yet-to-be born child of Caplin.
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On 1 November 2011 Carole Caplin announced that the Metropolitan Police had told her that her mobile phone had probably been hacked on the instructions of the News of the World.
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Once she is able to establish the extent of this invasion of her privacy, Ms Carole Caplin will decide what further action to take.