Caroline Flack

Caroline Louise Flack (born 9 November 1979) is an English television presenter, 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.

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.

Early life

Flack was born in Thetford, Norfolk and attended Great Hockham Primary School and Wayland Community High School in Watton. Flack 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, Flack 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.