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Caroline Flack found dead

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LittleScottish · 15/02/2020 17:39

Poor, poor woman...

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ShatnersWig · 15/02/2020 22:54

I'm not sure it is speculation on her innocence or guilt but looking at reasons she may have taken her life. Because there was a huge rush to blame X, Y and Z. Any, all or none of which may be involved.

Mayorquimby2 · 15/02/2020 22:59

"This is the third suicide by someone who has appeared in Love Island, surely they’ll have to axe it now?"

But this is surely really distinguished.
The others involve the question of catapulting people who were brickies or lower rung models a week before in to the national conscious and dealing with the fall out of huge levels of fame without any coping method.

This is someone who was in the initial eye and was then allowed to fulfill their professional ambition by being the host of the biggest show on the country. I don't think you can say that giving a professional presenter a presenting job is somehow negligent if they subsequently experience a personal meltdown/fall from grace and are swallowed up by it.

"What else can we do when there’s nobody to stand trial? That poor woman was never found either innocent or guilty."

I think everyone will draw their own line on this. The recent Kobe threads show that, some people think let sheeting dogs lie, others think it's important to highlight the other side of people who are being venerated in death.

Defenbaker · 15/02/2020 23:02

Very sad news. She was young, beautiful and talented, but for some reason life had become intolerable for her.

It is especially shocking when somebody who seems to have so much going for them takes the decision to end their life. I hope she is at peace now.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 15/02/2020 23:02

I think any one assuming that this tragic event was due to a tv show are likely very much mistaken

Whatever caused this, it was about her private life, from her mental health to recent events

It was clearly not due to events on a tv program

Spot on.

Aureum · 15/02/2020 23:09

She was being ripped apart in the media, she’d basically lost her career because multiple jobs were being cancelled, and then she found out she was being prosecuted and could potentially be facing jail. No wonder she killed herself. Poor girl must have been terrified about her future.

LoveNote · 15/02/2020 23:21

Those saying we should axe love island.....should we also axe strictly come dancing too then?

LoveNote · 15/02/2020 23:22

@Aureum which multiple jobs were being cancelled?

GabsAlot · 15/02/2020 23:27

she lost her career because of what she did not because people werent giving her jobs

Hadenoughofitall441 · 15/02/2020 23:32

@SpanishFly I’m not saying it’s acceptable, just saying it happens on a daily basis but because she’s a celebrity it’s made a big spectacle. It’s exactly the type of news that doesn’t need reporting, because people straight away jump on the nasty bandwagon when they don’t know all of facts.

Aureum · 15/02/2020 23:32

@Aureum which multiple jobs were being cancelled?
They booted her off Love Island so she lost her £1.2m salary. And C4 cancelled her presenting The Surjury and said they don’t want to associate themselves with her.

Donkeytail · 15/02/2020 23:34

Actually Coconuttt the first person to say she nearly killed him was the boyfriend when he made his 999 call.

How can you say this and then go on to quote what was said 'she tried to kill me'. He had very minor injuries for someone who 'was nearly killed'.

The people in the car Ant crashed into could say if he would have hit us a bit harder, a bit to the left or whatever he would have killed them. Does that mean he nearly killed them?

AmelieTaylor · 15/02/2020 23:35

I hadn’t heard of her before tonight.

If you haven't heard of Caroline Flack why the fuck are you posting on this thread? You've nothing to add then have you?!

I don’t think reading SM posts about her or watching some crap on TV makes your post any more worthy than mine or anyone else’s, so jog on...

I am very sorry to hear she’s taken her life. She was just 40, (seemingly) fit & healthy - many years ahead of her, it’s sad. It’s sad that she felt that was her best, or only, option & my heart breaks for the people who knew & loved her and whose lives will never be the same again 💕🌷

LoveNote · 15/02/2020 23:37

@aureum she was not ‘booted off’ love island!!! Jeez

She left of her own accord....stepped down

So not multiple jobs at all then really, you just made it up Hmm

JaneJeffer · 15/02/2020 23:38

May she rest in peace.

Aureum · 15/02/2020 23:40

She left of her own accord....stepped down
Jumped before she was pushed, more like.

LoveNote · 15/02/2020 23:42

she was being prosecuted for a violent crime! Her management probably advised that she step down til it’s over....don’t you think!? Or do you prefer your dramatic ‘jump before push’?

ShatnersWig · 15/02/2020 23:44

No, she stepped down for the court case and someone else stood in for the latest series. As Ant did with Holly W stepping in. Had she been found not guilty in the court case, she'd have been back on.

MrsJemimaDuck · 15/02/2020 23:44

Oh, Caroline. I couldn’t help but to like you. I’m very, very sad.

GabsAlot · 15/02/2020 23:46

thats the phone call him saying help shes trying to kill me-at that point noone knew what she was doing

FakeFraudSquad · 15/02/2020 23:48

Did anyone see Ella Whelan commenting about her death on Sky News tonight? She kept banging on about how Caroline was a “woman of a certain age”, “Not afraid to wear little dresses even though she was edging towards 40”, “a good time girl who dated younger men”, “I’m 28 and she was considerably older than me” etc?

I was watching with my mouth hanging open at just how insensitive and bitchy it was and how she seemed to be implying that once you hit 40 it’s all over. She also said that Caroline knew the risks when she put herself in the public role and seemed to be implying that she brought all the negativity on herself.

Really horrendous, vile attitudes expressed at such a delicate time towards a woman who has taken her own life tragically young. How do these people sleep at night?

Hurricane10 · 15/02/2020 23:50

I genuinely hadn`t heard of her before. But if anyone feels they need to take their own life they are deeply troubled and they and their loved ones are deserving of compassion.

Isitrainingihadntnoticed · 15/02/2020 23:51

at the beginning of this week i felt so low as i lost my job at xmas due to redundancy.

i literally cannot pay one bill, i cannot feed myself...i've felt like ending it all, i've felt like i cannot go on and the the world is better off without an oxygen thief like me. if i die, no matter what i am a financial burden.

feeling like you are better of dead and life is just too hard to face...its honestly the most fucking painful feeling you'll ever have.

I'm so devastated for caroline and her family,

Stargazers0 · 15/02/2020 23:54

The loss of a young woman like this is heartbreaking and tragic.
Whatever she may or may not have done (we will never know as the poor woman never made it to trial), it was not at the point she couldn’t have came back.
I’m so sad to read what has happened.

I feel that it cannot be complete coincidence that there have been three suicides linked to love island.
I hope this will be looked into.
There is something about that show. The shallow nature of it. The bubble reality. The way contestants are pitted against each other for popularity etc.
Two suicides from previous contestants. And now the previous presenter.
I hope questions are asked.

notthisshitagain · 15/02/2020 23:57

@Isitrainingihadntnoticed Please stay strong. Please talk to someone. I don't know you, but I care that you feel so low. You're not a burden. You are going through a hard time and that could be any of us.Thanks

SpanishFly · 15/02/2020 23:59

Stargazers sorry, but that's far too simplistic. Mike had lots of family issues. Sophie and her partner both died - her partner had nothing to do with the show. Caroline was going to face trial for an alleged offence- where is there any evidence that the show was connected to this?? Other than obv it must have been torture that she wasnt involved in it, when it was previously her livelihood

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