Caroline Louise Flack was an English television presenter and actress.
43 Facts About Caroline Flack
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Caroline Flack's Strictly Come Dancing win was praised for achieving a record perfect score in the final.
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Caroline Flack left Love Island in December 2019 after being arrested for assault allegations.
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On 15 February 2020, aged 40, Caroline Flack was found dead at her home in North East London; in August, a coroner's inquest recorded a verdict of suicide.
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Caroline Louise Flack was born at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, London on 9 November 1979, the youngest of the four children of Coca-Cola sales representative Ian Flack and his wife, Christine.
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Caroline Flack and her twin sister, Jody, were born when their sister Elizabeth was 10 and their brother Paul was 8.
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When Caroline Flack was seven, they moved again to nearby East Wretham.
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Caroline Flack attended Great Hockham Primary School and Wayland High School in Watton, Norfolk.
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Caroline Flack developed an interest in dancing and performed in village pantomimes while at school.
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Caroline Flack then presented the International Pepsi Chart Show, and Fash FC which followed footballer John Fashanu managing an amateur team.
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Caroline Flack hosted the CBBC coverage of Comic Relief Does Fame Academy in March 2007, commenting on the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with Paddy O'Connell.
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Caroline Flack hosted Big Brother's Big Mouth during the 2008 series.
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Caroline Flack was reported to be replacing Dermot O'Leary on Big Brother's Little Brother.
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In 2008, Caroline Flack co-presented the reboot of Gladiators, staying for two series.
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Caroline Flack won BBC Three's Dancing on Wheels with disabled partner James O'Shea and the pair represented Great Britain in the 2009 Wheelchair Dancing European Championships in Tel Aviv, finishing 16th in their category.
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Caroline Flack modelled for the magazine Maxim in the same year.
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In 2011 Caroline Flack was a team captain on the ITV2 game show Minute to Win It.
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Caroline Flack returned for the tenth series in 2013, while Murs was replaced by Matt Richardson.
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Caroline Flack was announced as a contestant on the twelfth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2014, partnered with Pasha Kovalev.
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The win motivated Caroline Flack to do more theatre work, leading to her starring as Irene Roth in a touring version of the musical Crazy for You in 2017, and playing Roxie Hart in a production of Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre the following year.
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Caroline Flack presented the spin-off show Love Island: Aftersun when the third series was broadcast in 2017.
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Caroline Flack stood down from the role in December 2019 following allegations of common assault.
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Caroline Flack was nominated as best television presenter at the National Television Awards four times from 2017 to 2020 consecutively for her work on the show.
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Caroline Flack had been due to present a reality series about cosmetic surgery called The Surjury on Channel 4, but it was cancelled following her death in February 2020.
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Caroline Flack has a cameo role in the film Greed, which was released on 21 February 2020.
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Caroline Flack suffered from long-term mental health issues, attempting suicide and self-harming on various occasions as a young presenter and actress.
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Caroline Flack was known not to take well the criticism that came with fame, and TV producer Anna Blue said that "she just wasn't emotionally wired to deal with all the problems that came with being famous".
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Caroline Flack dated Prince Harry in 2009, but the relationship ended quickly after the media began reporting on it, according to both of their autobiographies.
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Caroline Flack was briefly engaged to the reality TV personality Andrew Brady in 2018, and dated the rugby player Danny Cipriani in 2019.
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On 13 December 2019, Caroline Flack was charged with assaulting her boyfriend, the tennis player Lewis Burton, after an incident reported by Burton at her Islington flat the previous morning.
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Police found Caroline Flack covered with blood when they arrived, and they reported that she admitted that she had struck Burton, before warning them she would kill herself.
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Caroline Flack pleaded not guilty to the charges at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December 2019.
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Caroline Flack's solicitor told the court that Burton did not support the prosecution and that "he is not the victim, as he would say, he was a witness".
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Caroline Flack was released on bail with the condition that she not contact Burton and was due to stand trial on 4 March 2020.
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Caroline Flack's management criticised the Crown Prosecution Service for continuing with what her management termed a "show trial", even after Burton decided not to support the prosecution.
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On 15 February 2020, Caroline Flack was found dead in her flat, in Stoke Newington, London.
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Caroline Flack's death raised questions about the pressures of the programme and resulted in calls for it to be cancelled, with many pointing out that The Jeremy Kyle Show had recently been cancelled after a participant had died by suicide.
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Caroline Flack later said she believed Caroline would still be alive had she not been charged with assault.
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In February 2021, on the anniversary of her death, a mural of Caroline Flack was painted by artist Scott Wilcock on a wall in Wigan as a tribute.
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In June 2021, several of Caroline Flack's friends participated in a charity fundraising event that was dedicated to her memory.
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The event, called "Climb for Caroline Flack", challenged participants to climb 24 peaks in the Lake District within a 24-hour period.
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One of Caroline Flack's friends who participated, Olly Murs, noted afterwards that the event was a particularly appropriate remembrance of Caroline Flack because exercise was one of the strategies she had used to manage her mental health.
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Caroline Flack published her autobiography Storm in a C-Cup in 2015.