Name Caroline Flack Nationality British Role Television presenter | Occupation TV presenter Height 1.63 m Years active 2000–present Movies Is Harry on the Boat? | |
![]() | ||
Full Name Caroline Louise Flack Known for I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here NOW! (2008–10)The Whole 19 Yards (2010)The Xtra Factor (2011–13)Strictly Come Dancing (2014)Love Island (2015–)The X Factor (2015–) Siblings Elizabeth Flack, Paul Flack, Jody Flack Parents Christine Flack, Ian Flack TV shows Similar People Profiles |
Caroline Flack and Iain Stirling Talk Everything 'Love Island: Series Four'
Presenting Love Island, I'm a Celebrity, The X Factor & More! | Caroline Flack on Presenting
Caroline Louise Flack (born 9 November 1979) is an English television presenter, radio presenter and model, whose career began when she starred in Bo' Selecta! in 2002, but who has since gone on to present various ITV2 spin-off shows such as I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! from 2009 until 2010 and The Xtra Factor from 2011 until 2013, the latter with Olly Murs.
Contents
- Caroline Flack and Iain Stirling Talk Everything Love Island Series Four
- Presenting Love Island Im a Celebrity The X Factor More Caroline Flack on Presenting
- Early life
- Career
- Strictly Come Dancing
- Filmography
- Personal life
- References

Flack won the twelfth series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2014 and the following year began presenting main series such as Love Island and The X Factor, replacing long-standing presenter, Dermot O'Leary and presenting alongside Murs again.

In 2015 she came 5th in FHM's Sexiest Women, ahead of model Kelly Brook, reality star Kim Kardashian and singer Britney Spears.

Early life
Flack was born in Enfield, London and attended Great Hockham Primary School and Wayland Community High School in Watton, Norfolk. She broke her jaw in a playground accident when she was 12, spending eight weeks with it wired shut.
Career

In 2002, Flack got her break on television playing Bubbles on the sketch show Bo' Selecta! She then went on to present the International Pepsi Chart Show, before moving to Channel 4 where, in 2005, she presented links between videos on E4 Music and co-presented The Games: Live at Trackside on E4 with Justin Lee Collins. In 2005, she also had a regular segment in the video games show When Games Attack. A year later, she co-presented the Saturday morning show TMi with Sam and Mark which aired on BBC Two and the CBBC Channel. Subsequently, she hosted CBBC show Escape from Scorpion Island together with Reggie Yates.

In March 2007, Flack hosted the CBBC coverage of Comic Relief does Fame Academy, commenting on the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with Paddy O'Connell. She also hosted Big Brother's Big Mouth during Week 5 of the 2008 series. Daily Mirror journalist Rob Leigh noted that "her sharp delivery makes her the best presenter they’ve had on this series". However, this was not the first time that Flack was linked to Big Brother. Before the series started, it had been reported that she was Dermot O'Leary's replacement on Big Brother's Little Brother.

In 2009, Flack replaced Kirsty Gallacher as co-host of Gladiators with Ian Wright for the second series on Sky1. In July 2009, she filled in on the BBC's Sunday show Something for the Weekend, while Amanda Hamilton went on maternity leave. In the same year, she began hosting the ITV2 reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here NOW! Filming clashes with I'm a Celebrity meant that she could not film the next series of TMi, leading to her bowing out after three series. In November 2010, she returned to host I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here Now! on ITV2. Also in 2009, Flack won BBC Three's Dancing on Wheels with disabled partner James O'Shea and together the pair represented Great Britain in the 2009 Wheelchair Dancing European Championships in Tel Aviv, finishing 16th in their category.

Flack co-presented game show The Whole 19 Yards with Vernon Kay on ITV in 2010. She also modelled for the lads' mag Maxim. On 16 February 2010, she presented backstage at the 2010 BRIT Awards on ITV2.
In 2011, Flack was a team captain on the ITV2 game show Minute to Win It.
In May 2011, it was announced that Flack and Olly Murs would co-present the eighth series of The Xtra Factor, replacing Konnie Huq. Flack and Murs both returned for the ninth series. Flack returned for the tenth series in 2013, while Murs was replaced by Matt Richardson. In October 2013, it was announced that Flack would present The X Factor backstage during the live shows on Saturdays. On 12 June 2014, it was confirmed that Flack would not return for series 11 and was replaced by Sarah-Jane Crawford.
In 2014, Flack hosted the ITV2 show Viral Tap. In December 2014, she reunited with Murs to host a Christmas Day and New Year's Eve programme on British radio station Magic.
On 16 April 2015, it was announced that Flack, along with Murs would replace Dermot O'Leary as the hosts of The X Factor from August 2015. On 22 February 2016, Flack and Murs confirmed that they would not be returning to The X Factor.
She began presenting Love Island in June 2015 and its spin-off show Love Island: Aftersun when the third series aired from June 2017.
On 24 August 2015, Flack announced on her Twitter account that she would release an autobiography titled "Storm In A C Cup" on 22 October 2015.
On 18 December 2015, Flack was part of the presenting team for ITV's Christmas telethon Text Santa.
On 8 May 2016, Flack began co-presenting Sunday Morning Breakfast from 9am to 12pm over the summer with Gethin Jones across the Heart Network.
Strictly Come Dancing
In August 2014, Flack was announced as a contestant on the twelfth series of Strictly Come Dancing. Her professional partner was Pasha Kovalev. The couple earned the first perfect 40 of the series for their salsa in the semi-finals, followed by an additional 3 in the finals giving them a perfect total of 120 points, a feat unmatched in the history of the competition. On 20 December 2014, Flack and Kovalev were crowned the champions of the series.
Filmography
Personal life
Caroline Flack briefly dated One Direction singer Harry Styles, a relationship that garnered a degree of controversy and criticism due to Flack being 14 years older than Styles and Styles being only 17 at the time. The relationship ended in January 2012.
In 2015, she came 5th in FHM's Sexiest Women. She has a twin sister.