Love Island Caroline Flack’s suicide raises concern about how vulnerable people cope with the pressure of publicity

Caroline Flack is the third Love Island star to take her own life in recent years and her death will raise more questions about how vulnerable people cope with the pressure of publicity.

Flack, 40, hosted five seasons of the ITV series but her run ended after she was accused of assaulting her partner in December last year.

Sophie Gradon, 32, killed herself in June 2018, having appeared on Love Island the year before. Her boyfriend Aaron Armstrong, 25, killed himself three weeks after her death

Mike Thalassitis, 26, killed himself in Enfield, north London, in March last year, two years after appearing on Love Island. He was also a contestant on Celebs Go Dating and a former semi-professional footballer for Stevenage.

Meanwhile brodcaster ITV has come under pressure to cancel Love Island. 

Flack was set to face trial in March over allegations that she had assaulted her boyfriend Lewis Burton at her flat, which she denied. She entered a not guilty plea at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court in December.

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