Caroline Flack
Caroline Louise Flack (9 November 1979 – 15 February 2020) was an English radio and TV moderator. She started her profession as an entertainer, featuring in Bo' Selecta! (2002) and introduced different ITV2 turn off shows, for example, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Presently! (2009–2010) and The Xtra Factor (2011–2013).
Flack won the twelfth arrangement of Strictly Come Dancing in 2014 and the next year started exhibiting on arrangement, for example, Love Island and The X Factor, supplanting long-standing moderator Dermot O'Leary on the last mentioned.
Flack left Love Island in December 2019, subsequent to being captured for purportedly attacking her beau. In February 2020, three weeks before the preliminary, Flack submitted suicide.
Early life
Flack was conceived in Enfield, London, the most youthful of four youngsters destined to Ian Flack and Christine Callis. The family moved to Thetford, Norfolk, soon after her introduction to the world, when her dad, who functioned as a salesperson for Coca-Cola, was elevated to the board. At the point when Flack was 7, the family moved again to close by East Wretham. Flack and her twin sister, Jody, were conceived when their sister Elizabeth was 10 and sibling, Paul, 8. Jody, who was six minutes more established, was initially expected to be called Caroline, yet her mom chose the name didn't fit her. She went to Great Hockham Primary School and Wayland Community High School in Watton, Norfolk.
Television vocation
In 2002, Flack picked up her break on TV playing Bubbles on the sketch show Bo' Selecta! She at that point introduced the International Pepsi Chart Show, before moving to Channel 4 where, in 2005, she exhibited connects between recordings on E4 Music and co-displayed The Games: Live at Trackside on E4 with Justin Lee Collins. In 2005, she additionally had an ordinary portion on the computer games show When Games Attack. A year later, she co-displayed the Saturday morning show TMi with Sam and Mark, which disclosed on BBC Two and the CBBC Channel. In this way, she facilitated the CBBC show Escape from Scorpion Island together with Reggie Yates.
In March 2007, Flack facilitated the CBBC inclusion of Comic Relief does Fame Academy, remarking on the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with Paddy O'Connell. She likewise facilitated Big Brother's Big Mouth during Week 5 of the 2008 arrangement. Day by day Mirror columnist Rob Leigh remarked that "her sharp conveyance makes her the best moderator they've had on this series".However, this was not the first occasion when that Flack was connected to Big Brother. Before the arrangement started, it had been accounted for that she was Dermot O'Leary's substitution on Big Brother's Little Brother.
In 2009, Flack supplanted Kirsty Gallacher as co-host of Gladiators with Ian Wright for the second arrangement on Sky1. In July 2009, she was a substitute moderator on the BBC's Sunday show Something for the Weekend, while Amanda Hamilton was on maternity leave. Around the same time, she started facilitating the ITV2 unscripted TV drama I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here NOW! Planning conflicts with I'm a Celebrity implied that she was unable to film the following arrangement of TMi, prompting her bowing out after three arrangement. In November 2010, she came back to have I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here Now! on ITV2. Additionally in 2009, Flack won BBC Three's Dancing on Wheels with debilitated accomplice James O'Shea and the pair spoke to Great Britain in the 2009 Wheelchair Dancing European Championships in Tel Aviv, completing sixteenth in their category.
Flack co-exhibited game show The Whole 19 Yards with Vernon Kay on ITV in 2010. She additionally demonstrated for the chaps' mag Maxim. On 16 February 2010, she exhibited behind the stage at the 2010 Brit Awards on ITV2. In 2011, Flack was a group commander on the ITV2 game demonstrate Minute to Win It.
In May 2011, Simon Cowell reported that Flack and Olly Murs would co-present the eighth arrangement of The Xtra Factor, supplanting Konnie Huq. Flack and Murs both returned for the ninth arrangement. Flack returned for the tenth arrangement in 2013, while Murs was supplanted by Matt Richardson.On 12 June 2014, it was affirmed that Flack would not return for arrangement 11 and was supplanted by Sarah-Jane Crawford.
In 2014, Flack facilitated the ITV2 show Viral Tap.In December 2014, she rejoined with Murs to have a Christmas Day and New Year's Eve program on British radio broadcast Magic. On 16 April 2015, it was declared that Flack, alongside Murs would supplant Dermot O'Leary as the hosts for the twelfth arrangement of The X Factor from August 2015.On 22 February 2016, Flack and Murs affirmed that they would not be returning for the thirteenth arrangement of The X Factor and were for all time supplanted by O'Leary.
Flack started to exhibit ITV2's Love Island in June 2015 and its side project show Love Island: Aftersun when the third arrangement was communicated from June 2017. On 17 December 2019, Flack reported that she would be remaining down as host for the 6th arrangement following claims of ambush towards her boyfriend.
Flack wrote a collection of memoirs called "Tempest in a C Cup" in 2015. On 18 December 2015, Flack was a piece of the introducing group for ITV's Christmas pledge drive Text Santa. On 8 May 2016, Flack started co-displaying Sunday Morning Breakfast from 9 am to early afternoon over the mid year with Gethin Jones over the Heart Network.
Flack had been because of present a reality arrangement about restorative medical procedure called The Surjury on Channel 4, however it was dropped following her demise in February 2020.
Carefully Come Dancing
In August 2014, Flack was reported as a challenger on the twelfth arrangement of Strictly Come Dancing. Her expert accomplice was Pasha Kovalev. The couple earned the main ideal 40 of the arrangement for their salsa in the semi-finals, trailed by an extra 3 in the finals giving them an ideal aggregate of 120 focuses, an accomplishment unrivaled throughout the entire existence of the challenge. On 20 December 2014, Flack and Kovalev were delegated the bosses of the series.
Carefully Come Dancing exhibitions
Individual life
In 2009, Flack was accounted for to date Prince Harry, yet it finished rapidly after the media wrote about the relationship, as per her autobiography.
In 2011, Flack stood out as truly newsworthy when, at that point matured 31, she was involved with One Direction part Harry Styles, who was 17 at the time.She was involved with music director Jack Street, who oversaw Sam Smith, in 2014 and 2015. In 2018, she was quickly drawn in to unscripted television star Andrew Brady.
In 2015, she came fifth in FHM's Sexiest Women.
On 14 December 2019, Flack was blamed for ambushing her sweetheart Lewis Burton. Flack denied the charges, and Burton demanded that he was not an unfortunate casualty, rather depicting himself as a witness. She was expected to go to preliminary on 4 March 2020. Burton posted a tender Valentine's Day message to Flack's Instagram account the day preceding she died.
Demise
Flack was discovered dead in her East London level on 15 February 2020.A legal counselor for her family affirmed that she had taken her own life. A Love Island features scene, due to be appeared on ITV2 upon the arrival of her passing, was counteracted of respect.Tributes were paid to her from fans, previous Love Island candidates and celebrities.
Filmography
TV
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
- 2001 Is Harry on the Boat? Blonde
- 2002, 2004 Bo Selecta! Bubbles
- 2004 Weapons of Mass Distraction Corporal Flack
- 2005 The Games: Live at Trackside Co-presenter 2 series
- 2005 When Games Attack Co-moderator and reporter
- 2006–2008 TMi Co-presenter 3 series
- 2007 Comic Relief Does Fame Academy Co-presenter
- 2007 Escape from Scorpion Island Host 1 series
- 2008 Eurovision Song Contest 2008 Semi-Finals Commentator
- 2008 Big Brother's Big Mouth Week 5 Presenter 5 episodes
- 2009–2010 I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! Co-presenter 2 series
- 2009 Gladiators Co-presenter 1 series
- 2009 Something for the Weekend Maternity-spread presenter
- 2009 Dancing on Wheels Participant Winner
- 2010 The Whole 19 Yards Co-presenter 1 series
- 2010 BRIT Awards: Backstage Co-presenter
- 2011 Minute to Win It Team captain 1 series
- 2011–2013 The Xtra Factor Co-presenter 3 series
- 2013 The X Factor Backstage presenter Live Shows
- 2014 Viral Tap Presenter 1 series
- 2014 Strictly Come Dancing Contestant Series 12 winner
- 2015–2019 Love Island Presenter 5 series
- 2015 The X Factor Co-presenter Series 12
- 2015 Text Santa Co-presenter Christmas bid show
- 2017–2019 Love Island: Aftersun Main presenter Love Island turn off show
- Unaired The Surjury Main presenter Planned communicate in 2020 dropped after Flack's death
Visitor appearances
Superstar Juice (13 May 2010, 6 October 2011, 26 April 2012, 18 October 2012, 17 October 2013, 1 May 2014, 19 March 2015, 31 March 2016) – Panelist
- Elite player Family Fortunes (12 December 2010) – Contestant
- Odd One In (2 July 2011) – Panelist
- Don't bother the Buzzcocks (2 December 2011, 12 November 2012) – Panelist
- Free Women (25 June 2012, 12 January 2015) – Guest
- Sweat the Small Stuff (30 April 2013) – Panelist
- Lemon La Vida Loca (20 June 2013) – Cameo
- Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (22 June 2013) – Contestant
- Alan Carr: Chatty Man (3 October 2014, 29 May 2015) – Guest
- Alan Carr's New Year Specstacular (31 December 2014) – Guest
- Subterranean insect and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (27 February 2016, 2 April 2016) – Herself
Radio
Year Station Show Role Ref.
2016 Heart Network Sunday Mornings Co-presenter