Oh Sweet Caroline!The Media need to take responsibility

Oh Sweet Caroline! A star known and loved to many but also hated by many, specifically the british media. A woman everyone knew, if you watched Love Island or didn't, Caroline was known. A woman who 'lit up the room' said by many. She was thrown from CBBC to the ‘real world’, where she couldn’t complain when the going got tough.

On 15th February 2020, Caroline took her own life by hanging, this came after she was arrested for assult of her boyfriend, Lewis Burton. That night and the next week, tributes were pouring in from ex-islanders and famous friends of Caroline’s. She also had a tribute at the Brits from Jack Whitehall.

The most heartbreaking tribute was from, former colleague and friend, Olly Murs who said he ‘lost something [he] will never get back’. They both presented The X Factor together in 2015.

If you were to ask anyone what Caroline did, they would say Love Island. Flack took the job of the remake of Love Island in 2015, after it first aired in 2005 and 2006. She became heavily synomonous with the show as it became the biggest reality TV Show in the UK.

In July 2019, 3.6 million tuned in to watch Amber Rose Gill and Greg O'Shea won the 5th series, as Caroline hosted.

She even won a BAFTA for best reality and constructed factual show, this just goes to show (see what I did there) how big she was as a host, influencer - with her 2.7 million followers on her Instagram - it came with opinons, gossip and articles, investigating her life.

Caroline didn’t do Love Island for money, she did it because she really loved it and the concept she believed in it and the fact that the whole of the UK did meant the world to her , alas it was tainted by the British media.

This post was uploaded on Christmas Eve, she talked about 'this kind of scrutiny and speculation is a lot to take on for one person to take on their own'. It just showed how Caroline was trying, trying to let the media know it was all too much.

She has talked on This Morning about the press harrassing her family about details of her relationships, this suggests that this has been going on for over 3 years and it is a lot to 'take on their own'. Her relationships was the biggest topic for the press from her alleged realtionship with Prince Harry to her arrest with her boyfriend, Lewis Burton.

The main point of this article is to press the media for what they have done, pushing and pushing people to the edge and not taking responsability. If there is one thing to take from Caroline Flack's death, 'In a world where you can be anything, be kind'. I hope somehow, Caroline’s death can save others and her love to love can be through others.

A week after her death, a letter that she wrote for Instagram was released, as she was told not to post it. She describes the pain that she has gone through and the fact that she is not a domestic abuser. It is interesting she had to say it, and the only reason for that was because that is how the media portrayed her out to be.

Caroline could never get a rest from anyone, any opinion and it became too much for her. So I urge readers, you can be kind and not taunt people or break them down to the point that Caroline was at.

If you can sign the petition for the media to take responsibility for their actions.

Anyone depressed or suicidal can call Samaritans for help on 116 123 or email [email protected] in the UK. In the US, call the Samaritans branch in your area or 1 (800) 273-TALK.

Thank you and rest easy Caroline.