An Evening With Caroline Flack | Caroline Flack Interview 2018 | River Island

Hello and welcome to River Island Style Studio. My name is Farah Store and I am the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. I'm delighted to be here tonight with one of my favorite Cosmo cover stars of all time, the brilliant Caroline. Flack, tonight we're celebrating their first closing collaboration with River Island, which comes out on May 30, so make sure you put your journals in and it's a beautiful Christmas capsule collection. Write 19 pieces, yes, and we'll talk. through the entire collection, how you use it a little later, so let's get started so that Live Island hits the screens when it's June 4th.

June, okay, tell me, Caroline, so your career has come full circle. I did almost all the main shows, but we talked about this in the past. Live Island, how it came about and what convinced you that this was the show to do it. It was actually weird because I remember the moment my agent proposed it. me and I was sitting in a club in London and he came in with two proposals and said you were offered to be the presenter of The X Factor, he was going to do the main show and we were also offered to be The presenter is bringing back Love Island and I was like oh oh my gosh, I love that show he does, but you can't be both and I was like, well, why can't I do both?

He goes, she just can't. The schedules were conflicting, so that was the fact that it was one of those shows where it was such a big, it's such a big thing that I've been working for, it was kind of a given, I couldn't turn it down, I just couldn't. could. but I said I really want to try making love and working because I have a good feeling about it. I've worked with people before they were a big production team, please come here, Simon Cowell, please, if you can try. and take me to Spain and back and he and he did it, he was kind so we spent our time, there was talk of a private jet at some point that would take me there and back and it turned into an EasyJet flight at 4 a.m. from Manchester every Thursday, but I knew there was something about the programme.

I knew there was something about him that I would love and talk to me about because he's interesting. You want to go over everything recently that the show won a BAFTA. and I was against Blue Planet one of the categories and that's why some people will say Olive Island in their light entertainment but actually making the kind of television that Live Island is is almost like a highly scientific formula and you know what it is and how I explain it is that it's a really simple show about a really complicated topic because love is complicated in so many ways and we admit that we are all completely obsessed with other people's relationships and mainly because we relate to them and we choose people on that show who are relatable person who will be vulnerable enough to sit there and sit and tell people how they feel and it's a fast-paced version of a real-life relationship and we're all like, "Oh my God, I've done that and this is how you get sucked in." and so there's a lot more to this than what's on the tin, it's not just girls and guys and bikinis trying to fuck each other, although they do, it's the story that we fall in love with and get hooked on, you know?

Is there a point in the first series where you and the team realized it? Because of course starting Love Island, the celebrity of the original series, was a very different proposition. I don't know if anyone remembers seeing it, but at what point did you realize? I think with celebrities it's a little bit harder to let your guard down, yeah, I think when you've been on TV before, if you're an actress, oh, you're an actor. I think that when you start to relate to someone that's when you get hooked on something and for me it's always the boy and I'm always on the girl's side, I just do it, it was just for me in the first season, the first season for me was my favorite season and I sat down and watched him dressed in the first episode and I told my makeup artist I think he's going to do really well and he actually did in the first season and there was a good chance they weren't very in charge, you know?

It was a risk they were going to take and I am very happy and grateful to ITV also for having done an ITV and because I took a second chance and they gave it the second series and that suddenly worked and sometimes they did it with television. Don't give yourself that chance, everyone who takes the risk, do it again, sometimes you need it. I'll get into the flow of things and find your place, so in the second series, which is actually when me and most of the people in my office join in. huge was Terry, was Terry seriously, yeah, why do you think he's funny?

It is not yours? You remember one, yes, but really learn how important the characters are to the success of that show. They are crucial and it is not. only one, you can't really say what makes the perfect

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er, it's putting them together, you know who doesn't, you don't know how to show well, nothing is the program writes itself, we can. I don't plan it, which is when I never know when I'm going to come in because I don't know when they're going to need me, they need me to go on a hike to stir things up now, if things are going to get erratic in there, they don't need me to come in, so it's when things start to go a little slow and everyone adjusts, oh no, I need to mix things up a little so it writes itself, so you'll literally wait or they can call you.

England is doing well, he thinks, yes, crazy, no, we need you to be there. My first call to be able to plan anything, but I always have to stop whatever I'm doing. Get on a plane to New Yorker and walk through Ávila. I am terribly more. They're walking in the village more sideways, so it's actually brilliant because there's more going on in that absolutely is, but you also don't want to go in too often because you want them to go, what's that? You know sometimes you might want to. do it two days in a row because they're not expecting it or sometimes you want to leave it for two weeks and then come in so you want it to be unpredictable for them and tell me what it's like when it's always fun because you see the whole house and then when you come in, There seems to be a completely different atmosphere and they say they will be on their best behavior.

Yes, yes, what's so strange about it? I can only say that I am a spectator if I did not present it. I would see it like everyone else does and my life is taken over by it, so when I walk into the villa I like 50% of it. Actually, a big part of me just wants to talk to the manga, oh my god, this Chris and Then when Camilla was upset last year, it took every part of me not to cheer her up and give her a hug because that's what everyone they wanted to do at that moment, but I also have to do it.

I only have one chance to tell you that news. You can't deliver it twice, yeah, so I have to do it there and then, so I'm my professional side kick, it's like it's all these kinds of emotions, it's really allowed, so even if it's exactly like Camilla, where you. Your human instinct is to go and always and just look at it. You can't just go. Yes, everything is going to be fine. You will come. Could you give it as a gift? You just can't tell me what makes a love bright and contested and in fact, it's one of your favorites and why you never know, you know, you watch these casting tapes and you think they're going to be amazing, they have a certain personality, but what It is someone who has no fear or disgust, you will not know it. until you're there to tell someone exactly how you feel and that's pretty hard off camera like telling someone you like them so they're the ones who let their guard down and can actually come in with some personality but you break after. three or four days you can't, you can't fake how you feel about someone and when you start to like someone, I don't get funny, I get a little nervous, then it's someone who's not afraid to shoot, he says how to sit down and become a little more vulnerable.

For me, my favorite islander of all time goes back to season one and it was Jess who wanted it. You can see that if you can't see it, yes, she is still available to see it, but she to me is. There was something that I don't really know, I don't have much in common with her, but there were parts of her that I felt were really vulnerable and I wanted to get in there and go help her. I don't know she was good, she still is. Is vulnerability really what makes a brilliant contestant? Yes, I think so, because come on, the feeling became really vulnerable, that's what viewers are for.

You know, that's why you watch it, because you can. say whether someone is faking a relationship or not and the viewers control the show in a way, now tell me about, we talk about dropping bombs, kind of human bombs, like a wet mic or is it very, what is the importance of dropping a embarrassing microphone or rush because what the islanders do and what they experience is putting relationships to the test and it can be an accelerated version of a relationship, but we all go through moments in which we are tested and many of them are when other girls in the scene or if you see someone's ex and stuff like that, then what we like to do to test these relationships that we're creating is, hey, let's throw in the hottest guy ever and see how he reacts or see what so-and-so is like. such.

It's going to fill me up, I'm sure we put someone's ex in season 2 or 1, season 2 and things like that really bring out the worst or the best in you and then we see that you know what someone is really like, so a lot . about violence, but let's go back to the beginning, so you're from Norfolk, small villages in the north of Yaak used to pick daffodils to make money, oh yeah, one of the things you said in the past is one of the values. What you really love is grafting people who really talk to you very harshly about how much the Jews look at you now, she achieved it, but actually how difficult it has been, yes, it has been difficult.

I like fun, boy, I guess. If it wasn't fun I would have given up when I was in my twenties because if it's not fun it's just a nightmare so separate point when you were close to leaving you know what this is not for me no I didn't give up I did it. I called my mom and I was like 27 because I hadn't gotten into TV properly yet. He had done things and he was like 27 years old. My mom's phone. She was walking down the street. I thought like mom. Had I chosen wrong? race and she says, well, are you having fun?

I said yes, but I said it too late to change my mind if I want to do Slinked yes and I have chosen between paths and she said: you know what even if you have? you can do whatever you want you're young you know you're she said you can talk to people as long as you can talk to people and you're nice to people you can do whatever you want and I remember that conversation right? I think a lot of people say that at 27 is when they have a kind of semi krytus of, Am I doing the right thing?

And I'm looking at 30. Is it because a few hadn't made it at that time? In fact, stating that your big hit was your first, yes, absolutely, 27 for me was definitely a turning point. I think I was a lot more afraid of turning 30 than I was of turning 40, but that's probably part of being 30 and feeling a little more grown up. -up and maybe be settled but 20 for some reason I'm petrified turning 30 like it's apps and I'm single and I was like oh my god my life is over I was there so yeah I'd think about being that again. fair, I feel like I was probably 18 and I look back, you look really young, but do you because again you've talked about this and it's really interesting that when you were growing up it wasn't one of the things. what you wanted to do is work at c4 and you want it to be oh yeah I wanted to be a really cool Provence but I never got those jobs so I did a screen test for MTV, I tried screen 44 again and pop world and stuff like that . you know say you know you're not right and then on Sunday I dressed up as a banana for children's television and they say you have the power oh I see so children's television for me was a huge learning curve and I started at 27 and then there comes a point in your life where you have to accept that you want to be this but actually your talent ended here and what you have is something different, I mean, you are very commercial, people love you even though you were. desperately trying to be cool oh well yeah you're cool but I can see it when you're in your twenties that's what you want how disappointing it was when you never got those gigs at the time it felt disappointing but you learn your craft and you learn in what you're good at and you thought you had to learn who your audience is and what kids TV becomes family TV essentially and that was a really nice way to grow with your audience so I went from kids TV to making gladiators that the entire family watched together and then I went from gladiators to I'm a Celebrity to doing X Factor and everything seemed to go the right way and then Love Island does everything.

I feel like because you go from doing kids TV, which I think is really challenging, you do gladiators, then you do jungle, so you start doing what you expect, oh, this girl Lee and Stroh, yeah, do you always feel like when you're at a job because Cosmo people always say it's like I always feelI mean seeing something like this, feeling it and watching the way it moves. It's different than seeing it, but on a piece of paper, that's it and it feels like we like anything you create and it comes to life, you feel proud I think, and it feels a little bit like pinching yourself too, don't you believe that kind of things.

Things will surprise you because when you know people talk about imposter syndrome and designing a collection is very difficult, I imagine so, when you walked into it, did you think, God, I know enough about this? Yes, I was a little nervous. I wouldn't think my ideas wouldn't work. My God, but you know I was more. amazed at how brilliant River Island is, where and how they just didn't go, oh you know what? We're just going to put your name on this and yeah, we want you to see something like this, they didn't do that, Joanne, oh. no, we're going to take your vision, we can't wait to do it and then any kind of query they had, they would say: do you want it like this or like this, right down to the label on these labels?

It was every single detail that let me decide what it was going to be like and I was very grateful for that, which is why the mood panel actually looks very, yeah, it looks like yeah, yeah, okay, so If there was ever another celebrity version of Laval and Wickham's Nerves, could you help me tell the people who are in the original? I remember you can invest in it, oh yes, yes. I think you continue. This one came with some girls in bikinis. It's easy to love. Come on, Ollie, who else? Who is your what? What women would you want there?

Nobody else, who else would be your favorite? Could you invest in yourself? I would be, wouldn't you be really interested in putting the entire original cast back together to see how they do it? Yes like? do every day like well, there is talk Abbott, miss, I was in Alden, I'm in houses and your Lee Sharpe viescha, yes, I mean, because I really want, I would love to see you, I see what would happen, no one is drinking now , everyone is very good. It would be really boring, yeah, no, I think it's better with the kind of people who just aren't that camera conscious.

I think so, because I think after working in front of the camera you don't realize how things work and you realize the way things are produced, it's quite difficult and that's a point with white celebrities that they probably don't they worked as well as this one, yeah, yeah, yeah, how do you take your style from day to night? I'm quite daytime all the time and I rarely get really glamorous and I think I've always been that way. I don't think it's tomboyish, I think it's the girl Tom and I were a set back in the day and now we probably just put it on.

I put on a pair of heels and changed it for the night, however, there are moments like the BAFTAs that just happened, yeah, where I shut up because I've probably ever taken Graham in my life like a different level glove, different like I. I looked at Jess when they put it on, since I'm not going to, but they chose to do it justice and they just tried it on and because it was fine, then I put it on and felt amazing. I tripped on stage, Biden mind, because he was in such a good place and yes, it was a very difficult dress to wear, yes, it was nice, we always do it, yes, would you choose to separate his range from us?

I mean, I said it before. She said Kylie would be really good, right? Yes, because I think I just grew up with her. He was in love with her from a very young age. You know she changes the way she has changed. I simply love her. I met her. a couple of times and I got really weird ooh yeah, but at your job it seems like you're probably going to meet your heroes, yeah, and they're supposed to let you down, it's like you never met each other, yeah, she didn't meet them, she said, He said I liked my new hair and I thought what does that mean, did you know my alt, yeah, so yeah.

I don't know why I'm holding this big shoe to hold the bag but you can't cover my godmother yeah so probably Kylie Kylie would be a dream anyone oh she met her well you like her you're even better than I thought you were going to be like Gwen Stefani, really, yeah, I'm like you want to get as close to Gwen as possible, don't you? Because she is just his porcelain, yes. So ridiculously beautiful and so unique, you know how she dresses and maybe I'm still getting close. So beautiful and I also love her style when today's expert hopes so, when they used to rehearse on stage and we always use. just hanging around XJ just looking at them, do you want to have nothing to say?

So, let's say you know Gwen Stefani so well that you've always admired her. I did anything weird, yeah, no, it wasn't hers, I just wouldn't do it. It's been appropriate for me to approach him, more like, yeah, sure, have you ever done it really quickly because obviously a lot of your job is, I mean, it's a lot more what I do now, is asking questions, probing the life of the people? Has there ever been someone who you found really difficult to

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, and if that happens, how do you avoid it, how do you extract it? I have never experienced it and I know it mainly because in a way they are there to I give them an

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so that they are not difficult from the beginning and I assume that they are there to talk about whatever topic is talked about and generally I find It's pretty easy to talk to people in life.

I get along with most people and I'm pretty good at it, so that's probably why I chose the job I do and also people tell me everything. I seem to know everyone's secrets, like my peers and everything I think, so I must be a good listener. but you have the questions too and I asked the right question, you are probably a very good detective or an excellent journalist, but yes, you can tell because I found this verb knowing your verb for a little time, now I am outlining what interests you tosomeone. in which I guess it's a presentation pan, it's not what they're going to talk about, yeah, and also another thing is that I would hate with love, I go back to love island, I'm the voice of the viewer, so everyone screams and Television wants to know what people think when they go out.

I don't want to be that person who just sits on the fence and says: how do you feel? I'm going to say: Why did you do that? Why did you hurt her like that? we want to know what but why yeah and you have to move on and if it's a little bent that's okay tomorrow the next part means but if I did then I wouldn't be the right person for the job so I have to do it . have the confidence to do it, do you like to do it or not, do you love to question, get the answer, yes, we really like it and do it, yes, okay, okay, I think we are going to close the Facebook and Instagram group now, thank you so much.

Everyone for tuning in, remember May 30th, put it in your diary. Caroline's 19-piece collection will be available to purchase, so now we'll have a couple of questions from the floor.