Caroline Flack breaks social media silence: ‘Mine and my family’s life is no longer up for entertainment and gossip’
Former Love Island presenter was arrested and charged with assaulting her boyfriend in December
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Your support makes all the difference.Caroline Flack has broken her silence on social media to say that her and her family’s lives are “no longer up for entertainment or gossip”.
The former Love Island host has mostly refrained from posting on Instagram since December, when she was arrested and charged with assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton by beating.
She pleaded not guilty to assault and her trial is due to begin on 4 March.
The presenter is alleged to have hit Burton over the head with a lamp, causing injury.
Posting on her Instagram story on Thursday (30 January), she wrote: “I’m going to speak today… mine and my families life is no longer up for entertainment and gossip [sic].”
The post comes amid reports that Flack and Burton have split ahead of her trial for assault. Burton has denied these claims. The couple are banned from seeing each other, as per the conditions of Flack’s bail.
Flack said she was experiencing “the worst time in my life” ahead of a court appearance in December.
Laura Whitmore, who is in a relationship with the Love Island narrator Iain Stirling, stepped in to present the show’s first winter edition, which is currently airing on ITV2.
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