Trivia

Enjoyed playing chess.

Had a twin sister, Jody.

Once worked in an abattoir.

At the 2020 Brit Awards, a few days after Flack's death, singer Harry Styles wore a black ribbon on his jacket as a tribute to her.

Flack had long-term mental health issues, attempting suicide and self-harming on various occasions as a young presenter and actress.

She was an English television presenter and actress.

She dated Prince Harry in 2009, but the relationship ended quickly after the media began reporting on it, according to both of their autobiographies.

In 2011, she had a brief relationship with One Direction member Harry Styles.

Flack began presenting ITV2's Love Island in 2015. The programme had previously been shown on ITV a decade earlier but had not been particularly successful. With Flack as presenter, the show attracted 4 million viewers by 2018, becoming the most watched on the channel. She also presented the spin-off show Love Island: Aftersun when the third series was broadcast in 2017. She stood down from the role in December 2019 following allegations of common assault. She was nominated as best television presenter at the National Television Awards four times from 2017 to 2020 consecutively for her work on the show.

On 13 December 2019, 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. Police found Flack covered with blood when they arrived, and they reported that she admitted that she had struck Burton (saying "I did it, I whacked him round the head like that"), before warning them she would kill herself. Her inquest later found that Flack had hit and attacked Burton while he slept as she thought he was cheating, and that Burton had sustained a head wound.

In February 2020, Flack's ex-boyfriend, Andrew Brady, set-up a fundraiser in Caroline's name for the trans children's charity Mermaids, which Flack was passionate about.

In February 2021, on the anniversary of her death, a mural of Flack was painted by artist Scott Wilcock on a wall in Wigan as a tribute. It featured a quote by author Jennifer Dukes Lee that Flack had requoted, "In a world where you can be anything, be kind".

The inquest into her death opened on 19 February, and was adjourned until 5 August. On 6 August, after a two-day hearing, the coroner found that Flack's death was a suicide.

In 2014, Flack won the twelfth series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and was praised for achieving a record perfect score in the final.

She 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".

As a pupil, she was given medical treatment for being underweight.

From 2006 to 2008 she co-presented the Saturday morning show TMi with Sam & Mark, which aired on BBC Two and the CBBC Channel. Subsequently, she hosted the CBBC show Escape from Scorpion Island together with Reggie Yates.

Flack began presenting The X Factor in 2015, replacing the long-standing presenter Dermot O'Leary, and Love Island, hosting until her resignation in December 2019 after being arrested for assault allegations.

Around 2014 and 2015, she was in a relationship with Sam Smith's manager Jack Street.

Between 1996 and 1999 she studied dancing and musical theatre at the Bodywork Company in Cambridge.

She was briefly engaged to the reality TV personality Andrew Brady in 2018, and dated the rugby player Danny Cipriani in 2019.

In 2005 she had a regular segment on the video games show When Games Attack.

Flack attended Great Hockham Primary School and Wayland High School in Watton, Norfolk. She developed an interest in dancing and performed in village pantomimes while at school.

She began her professional career as an actress, starring in the comedy sketch show Bo' Selecta! (2002), and went on to present various ITV2 shows including I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! (2009-2010) and The Xtra Factor (2011-2013).

In 2002 Flack gained her break on television playing Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles on the sketch show Bo' Selecta!. She then presented the International Pepsi Chart Show, and Fash FC which followed footballer John Fashanu managing an amateur team.