Love Island pay emotional tribute to Caroline Flack while Leigh Francis and Lou Teasdale share sweet posts to mark four years since her death
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Love Island paid an emotional tribute to Caroline Flack on Thursday to mark the four-year anniversary of her death.
The official ITV dating show page shared a black and white photo of the former presenter on set as she smiled.
Next to the image they wrote: ‘Caroline. Always in our hearts.’
Meanwhile, comedian Leigh Francis wrote in his tribute: ‘Always feels like she’s on holiday. I hope she has the best time. I miss you x @flackstock.’
Caroline sadly took her own life on February 15, 2020, at the age of 40, leaving the world in shock.
Love Island paid an emotional tribute to Caroline Flack on Thursday to mark the four-year anniversary of her death
Meanwhile, comedian Leigh Francis wrote in his tribute: ‘Always feels like she’s on holiday. I hope she has the best time. I miss you x @ flackstock’
It came the day after she learned the Crown Prosecution Service would continue with a trial over the alleged attack on her model and former tennis player boyfriend Lewis Burton in December 2019.
Also paying tribute on Thursday was her good friend, hairstylist Lou Teasdale, who took to her Story for a snap of Caroline’s book as she simply dropped a kiss in the caption.
Caroline’s death was ruled a suicide at an inquest in August 2020, with coroner Mary Hassell saying: ‘The most important decision I have to make is whether Caroline committed suicide…
“I need to be satisfied that she acted in a way that caused her death, and secondly, that she intended to cause her death.
‘In Caroline’s case, I am completely convinced that she intended to cause her own death. She hanged herself. She had only one expectation: her own death. There’s not a single doubt in my mind.’
The coroner said she had experienced “variable ill health” and was “distressed” at the thought of a trial.
She said: “Caroline had mixed mental health, she had had problems in the past. She had difficulties…
‘Despite the fact that she may have led – to some – a charmed life, and the more famous she became the more some of these difficulties increased, she had to deal with the media in a way that most of us don’t. .
Also paying tribute on Thursday was her good friend, hairstylist Lou Teasdale, who took to her Story to quickly read Caroline’s book as she simply dropped a kiss in the caption.
Caroline sadly took her own life on February 15, 2020 at the age of 40, leaving the world in shock
‘It was played out in the national press, and that was extremely difficult for her. She was faced with the prospect of not being able to work in the job she loved, and of losing a lot…
‘I think the reason for her suicide was that she now knew for certain that she was being persecuted, and she knew that she would have to deal with the media, the press and publicity – it would all fall on her. For me, that’s essentially it.’
At the time, her mother Christine cried as she told the coroner via video link: “I completely agree, I think you understand it well.
“We know you can’t say certain things and it’s up to us whether we want to move forward, and we won’t. You’re spot on.’
In conclusion, the coroner recorded a death due to suicide caused by hanging.
Mrs Hassell said: ‘Caroline hanged herself at home on the morning of February 15 due to an exacerbation of fluctuating ill health and anxiety.’
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It came the day after she learned the CPS would go ahead with a trial over the alleged attack on her model and former tennis player boyfriend Lewis Burton in December 2019.