
She was also reported to be replacing Dermot O'Leary on Big Brother's Little Brother. The Daily Mirror journalist Rob Leigh commented that "her sharp delivery makes her the best presenter they’ve had on this series". She also hosted Big Brother's Big Mouth during the 2008 series. įlack 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. Subsequently, she hosted the CBBC show Escape from Scorpion Island together with Reggie Yates. From 2006 to 2008 she co-presented the Saturday morning show TMi with Sam & Mark, which aired on BBC Two and the CBBC Channel. In 2005 she had a regular segment on the video games show When Games Attack. She then presented the International Pepsi Chart Show, and Fash FC which followed footballer John Fashanu managing an amateur team. In 2002 Flack gained her break on television playing Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles on the sketch show Bo' Selecta!. Between 19 she studied dancing and musical theatre at the Bodywork Company in Cambridge. As a pupil, she was given medical treatment for being underweight. She developed an interest in dancing and performed in village pantomimes while at school. Flack attended Great Hockham Primary School and Wayland High School in Watton, Norfolk. When Flack was seven, they moved again to nearby East Wretham. Shortly after her birth, her father was promoted to the company's management, and the family moved to Thetford, Norfolk. Jody, the elder twin by six minutes, was originally supposed to be called Caroline, but her mother decided the name did not suit her. Flack and her twin sister, Jody, were born when their sister Elizabeth was 10 and their brother Paul was 8.


Ĭaroline 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 ( née Callis). On 15 February 2020, aged 40, Flack was found dead at her home in North East London in August, a coroner's inquest recorded a verdict of suicide. She left Love Island in December 2019 after being arrested for assault allegations. The following year she began presenting The X Factor (2015) – replacing the long-standing presenter Dermot O'Leary – and Love Island (2015–2019). Her Strictly Come Dancing win (2014) was praised for achieving a record perfect score in the final.
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She began her professional career as an actress, starring in Bo' Selecta! (2002) and presented various ITV2 shows including I'm a Celebrity.Get Me Out of Here! NOW! (2009–2010) and The Xtra Factor (2011–2013).
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She won the twelfth series of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and presented The X Factor and later Love Island.įlack grew up in Norfolk and took an interest in dancing and theatre while at school. Caroline Louise Flack (9 November 1979 – 15 February 2020) was an English television and radio presenter and actress.
