Caroline Flack Dead

I only know of her from the domestic abuse case I don't really know anything else about her to be honest.

I have been aware of her from Strictly and the Court case. It is so sad that a woman of her age feels it is the only answer.

The poor soul must have beeen in such a dark place, i feel for her family. Trial by media is a curse and trial by social media is evil

I new who she was,but never watched anything she was in.
How very sad..I wished she reached to someone as she obviously was struggling.

Very sad. Agree with you grannypiper.

Very sad. I will always remember her Argentine Tango on Strictly. She wore purple and no-one has ever danced it so beautifully.

I do wonder if social media trolls have been hounding her.( Never seen Love Island but remember her on X Factor.)

I dont agree that people were wrong to call for het suspension.
If you or I were awaiting trial for assault we would be suspended from work until the trial. I do not think people were wrong to call out TV producers on that..

Thats not trial by media IMO. Its standard to be suspended until you have a "real" trial with that sort of case

So sad.

This is so, so sad

Incredibly sad to hear this news tonight about Caroline. I remember watching her in Strictly every week and was so pleased when she won with Pasha. She did seem to have a very troubled personal life and the last few weeks must have been hard with a court case looming.

Just so sad, I cannot imagine how her poor family are feeling

Incredibly sad ..

So terribly sad, the hash tag 'being kind ' , you know, let's just all try and be just that

That hash tag is being used passive aggressively against people... its being used to bully..
Social media has been full of hypocrites today.

Lots of
"You have blood on your hands #bekind"

Irony.

So sad people we really do need to take a long hard look at ourselves this girl was pushed to the edge by social media so so sad

And now people are using social media and #bekind to bully others on her behalf.

Her poor family

Dreadfully sad - the media have a lot to answer for. Such a beautiful girl in the prime of her life. I don't watch Love Island but knew her from other shows she had presented. Her family and ex (who didn't want the assault trial to take place) must be devastated

I Don’t really understand why she was on trial she was accused of hitting her partner with a lamp she denied it and he didn’t want to pursue it and yet the CPS went ahead and put her on trial the couple were not allowed to meet although they both wanted to spend Christmas together it all seems to have got completely out of kilter and I would think the legal teams hell bent on pursuing this are also to blame unless there is much more to this then has come out
Poor lady obviously felt trapped and we don’t know what messages she was receiving from social media
the partner must be in bits

Her partner must have reported her to the police?
How else did they know about it?

There are a lot of issues here and the blanket coverage on both social media and MSM is not helping with having any perspective. Like many people I only heard of her because of the court case. I had heard of Love Island because two previous contestants had committed suicide. My personal view is that programmes like that are vile and do untold damage to both contestants and the wider society.

Her agency is now accusing the CPS of a ‘show trial’. This would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. I bet they didn’t want a trial - how much money do they make from her.? The CPS decided there was a case to answer. It doesn’t matter what the assaulted partner wanted. Imagine a case where the CPS don’t prosecute a woman who attacks her partner because he doesn’t want it and she goes on to attack another partner. Yes I can imagine she was very upset by the court case and its impact on her career but many people who appear in court are very upset - their careers and reputations in tatters. That’s no reason to not prosecute. Because someone is famous doesn’t mean they are more upset as human beings than anyone else.

The hypocrisy on MS and social media now about all this is breathtaking. The celeb world is cruel and harsh - the rewards and punishments are great. Both sides feed off each other. Nothing will change once the dust settles over this case. It never does - there are too many vested interests and too much money involved in the shallow celebrity merry go round.

This is a terribly sad situation. And whilst I agree with a lot of comments being made online that the newspapers are at fault for hounding her, and for writing their sensationalist stories about her, I think we, the public, should also be looking at our own behaviour and our own posting habits.

It's all too easy to sit at home, safe behind the anonymity of an online pseudonym, and post comments and remarks about other people, be they celebrities or other posters, without having a second thought as to how those comments may be received or how they may affect the person they are being made about.

I have been saddened at some of the comments I have read on Gransnet recently, and the Robbie Williams thread about surrogacy comes to mind, as well as a lot of the threads about the Royal Family and the comments about Meghan Markle. There are some really spiteful comments on those threads - comments that I am quite sure wouldn't be made to the subject if they were face to face.

I will definitely stop and think twice before posting anything negative in future. I hope I've not been spiteful in comments I've made, or deliberately hurtful, but I can't honestly say I haven't. It's too easy to dash off a response and click send, in the heat of the moment.

My mother's mantra of "If you've nothing nice to say, say nothing at all" is never more true.

It was upsetting to read that Caroline had said in October last year (before the domestic abuse incident) that she had confided her mental health anxieties to a friend and was crushed to be told she was ‘draining’.

I bet that person feels mortified now and that comment will haunt them. It’s sad for whoever it was too, as he/she possibly didn’t realise just how vulnerable CF was feeling.

Sometimes words can unintentionally sting more than intended.
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The alleged assault was serious according to reports in the immediate aftermath. The CPS wouldn't support a criminal trial without strong belief it would result in conviction. The fact her boyfriend didn't want her prosecuted is not unusual in domestic abuse. There have been a number of threads on gransnet where posters have complained that women who attack partners aren't criticised in the same way that males facing allegations of abuse are.

It seems that Caroline Flack has talked about her struggles with mental health in the past, as well as in recent on line posts. As others have said, she's the third young person involve in the Love Island programme to commit suicide. The smiles, the beauty, the constant appearance of happiness can be a mask. Robbie Williams and so many others.

There are probably hundreds of people at least who are feeling guilt today - suicide does that to the left behind. And yes dealing with friends with mental health problems can be very draining and one’s own life has to be lived. We’ve seen loving partners on GN post of the emotional costs of dealing with high need partners