Love Island Finalist Curtis Pritchard Pays Tribute To Caroline Flack | Lorraine

Giambi's are Richard Arnold and his old Islander

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and friend Curtis Pritchard joins us this morning. I still can't believe we're having this conversation. Really I can not. I wish we were here. I couldn't read over the weekend. I really couldn't and I'm sure we all felt that way this morning. I think everyone did because, whether you've followed Caroline's career closely or watched any of her shows, she had a massive impact, she was very much part of a The streaming landscape is a very important part of people's lives because she was always present and for me yesterday I even just complained while she was cooking the roast dinner, there was a kind of Paul, if you like to be aware of your day to day life.

I'm sure a lot of people felt this at home, so if you're just going about your day-to-day activities and getting on with it, because the news came with such a complete shock on Saturday, it's well documented that it was over and over. of pressure with this impending CPS trial that you have mentioned, there is a lot of anger after the initial commotion that emerged on social media and in the newspapers today, as well as leaving aside that the facts are too clear to see that a Absolutely horrible body. on Saturday afternoon discovered by his father after his friend Lou alerted his father to the fact that he could not return to the property and that he had actually been staying with Caroline for a while and this, of course, is coming out of the back. reports that the paramedics also came to the apartment on Friday and assessed Caroline and told us that Caroline said no I really don't need to go to the hospital for that and they thought she was in a better place, tragically it clearly seemed like that's not the case so which you can only imagine what it must be like for her to be in that fishbowl under this enormous amount of pressure, understandably, LaVon was taken off the air this weekend.

We have a statement from ITV here, a lot of people had done it. Knowing Caroline well and holding her with great affection, we are all absolutely devastated by this tragic news after careful consultation between Caroline's representatives and the be

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d Island production team and given how close we still are to the news of the tragic death of Caroline, we have decided not to broadcast Lavina's program tonight, doubtful respect for Caroline's family love. Island will return tomorrow night, which will include a

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to Caroline, who will be in our hearts forever, so, sir, obviously, tonight she will be paid in the show that she absolutely loved, she loved nature and and she It completely sunk, then she was, she hosted, she was synonymous and you must have felt that a lot, so Curtis and her became friends because of the series, yes, she was such a big part of the show that everyone knows. and the foot.

I remember the first time I met her, it was actually a memory, so we didn't have much time to talk, but she was so professional, so amazing at what she did and then I remember we met afterward. in the final and I actually had a real conversation, she was lovely, probably thanks Pat and I'll tell you that's what a lot of Love Island our contestants say and as I just said on Good Morning Britain she was always there with the registered trademark. hair flip, but she was also there with a hug and socializing with everyone, after which, very, very inclusively, it wasn't one of those turn-taking, if you like, climbing the ladder guys, you know, once the show was over and she would disappear oh no she she's the pusher she's a very important part of the band it's a tough week so for Laura Whitmore imagine Richard I mean they were clearly friends she obviously became charge of the program, yes, hello, it's just time with Laura, I know.

She did a radio show yesterday, that's right, incredibly emotional about what had happened that she was on. I know Laura very well and, of course, her partner Ian, who is that voice of Love Island. I went out on Love Island in South Africa and Laura was very sorry. that she was holding the cane, you know, and that Caroline would come back, yeah, you know, that was the place she was in and, of course, she was, as you say, Christine, she was incredibly emotional on her show this weekend. week, we can hear a little of that. It's heartbreaking, actually, it's very difficult to listen to each other, and you mean the irony?

Social media has been used a lot to express grief and rightly so, but it is coming. I hope no one actually gives anything to Laura Whitmore. problems or any snake or any grief because she was a great addition to the Love Island show and I hope people don't put pressure on her saying that she took a job or something like that. She just wanted that to come out. As you say, she was just holding her back, yes, I absolutely adore her, she had total support paralyzed when she took on the job, obviously more

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s poured in from celebrities and stars alike.

Anton Tech tweeted that we are both devastated here, the news about Caroline Flack is beyond sad. Beyond words, so tragic, our thoughts and prayers are with her family. Rest in peace. Caroline Ali was also heartbreaking over the weekend. If you read her Instagram post of hers, she says my heart is forever broken. Today I lost something that I will never, ever lose. come back and that's you and of course they got her ex back together they were very very good friends. Louise Redknapp posted this on Caroline when things were difficult for me and you were going through an equally difficult time, you reached out to me.

I was so proud to be your friend, you were our girl, which again Curtis echoes that your feelings are part of the love of the Allen family, very, very inclusive and finally, from Cheryl, this is so absolutely Heartbreaking and tragic that I can't even find my words at rest. peace Clara and Louis Burton of course, her partner with whom Caroline due to the impending CPS case was unable to have any contact, which in itself is heartbreaking. Obviously she posted and retweeted a post that Caroline said: you know in a world where you can be anything, be kind. and that's the thing and that's amazing, no, I think we need to be more in 2020 now, I don't think people should use social media to comment negatively on people because it really has a huge impact. impact, it's alive and you know doors, you know Curtis and when it's in black and white it's so hard to escape it, you can walk out of the show and have a dozen positive comments and then you see one and you feel completely dejected. and you think you know you could be in the public eye but what you do deserves this amount of scrutiny is from people you've never met and it's very easy to pick up a phone or a computer and you know to write something else anonymously on that and I think it's okay, but then how do you change it?

Then you think well, actually maybe we all have to be responsible if you're willing to put something in black and white. I have to have the right to be in touch with So, in fact, I have to go to thousands of people that you know, who connected today with an online petition, that you know the legacy would be ideal if we can get something out of this terrible, tragic event. Carolina law, you know where the source is that a lot of these stories that are online and in the press are attributed to they are responsible, they know they are under scrutiny and they are guilty, yes, if that happened and we got to that stage because that gets skipped, it needs a much bigger problem than just a show or being a celebrity because this toxic conversation is happening in every workplace and it's happening on playgrounds, God forbid and we have to take this down .

I don't know how we can reverse that link, but we have to do it and you. You helped him yourself, didn't you, Curtis? When you leave Love Island then you're thrown into this world which is strange and it's really because we went in there as normal people and we came. one hundred percent, you know, it's not, we've been thrown fifty percent, we go out and you're right in the public eye and that's amazing, so I can't say a bad word about the show because it really is amazing and it's made me helped a lot, but if you're not prepared and you don't have anyone to talk to, and that's why I encourage people to talk to someone, no matter how small it is, no matter how big the problem is, there will be someone out there.

There is someone to listen to you and people just need to talk. Get things off your chest.