Staff ReporterFormer Love Island presenter Caroline Flack has been found dead in her flat, her family has confirmed.
In a statement, the family said: “We can confirm that our Caroline passed away today, the 15th of February.
“We would ask that the press respect the privacy of the family at this difficult time and we would ask they make no attempt to contact us and/or photograph us.”
A lawyer for the Flack family confirmed that Caroline took her own life and was found dead in her east London flat on Saturday.
Flack’s death comes just weeks before she was due to go on trial for allegedly attacking her boyfriend Lewis Burton with a lamp at her flat in Islington, north London, on 12 December.
She had pleaded not guilty to the charge.