'Love Island' Host's Death Confirmed as Suicide
by EG
Caroline Flack, former host of Love Island, died last Saturday in London. It had been speculated that her death was the result of suicide, and a coroner's report released on Wednesday confirmed that to be true. Flack, 40, was a host of the UK reality show between 2015 and 2019. She was replaced last year by Laura Whitmore. Read on for details.
Caroline Flack, the former host of U.K.'s Love Island, died by suicide, a coroner said in London on Wednesday.
Her death was confirmed by her family on Saturday. She was 40. "We can confirm that our Caroline passed away today," her family said Saturday. "We would ask that the press respect the privacy of the family at this difficult time."
While no cause of death was given at first, multiple reports in British news outlets noted that Flack was found unresponsive at her apartment in London.
A coroner in a Wednesday hearing at the start of the inquest said Flack's provisional cause of death was death by suicide by hanging.
Flack began her career on the comedy series Bo' Selecta! in 2002 and went on to present shows on the ITV network such as The Xtra Factor. Flack began presenting ITV's hit dating reality series Love Island in 2015, for which she became well known. The show follows a group of young men and women living in a Spanish villa together and hoping to find romantic connections.
Flack stepped down from the series in 2019 following a domestic assault charge involving her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton. She was replaced by Irish TV host Laura Whitmore.
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