Charlie Russell and Dov Freedman’s documentary captures the TV presenter’s joyful nature, the pitfalls of social media – and her family’s grief a year on from her death
The documentary Charlie Russell and Dov Freedman originally intended to make about Caroline Flack was going to focus on the media storm after she was arrested for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend in December 2019, and the effects of losing her high-profile job presenting Love Island. They had met and discussed the project with Flack, found her charming and enthusiastic about it all, despite the pressure she was under, and everyone prepared for it to go ahead. She killed herself, at the age of 40, two months later.
So what we have instead is an extended obituary-cum-eulogy in Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death (Channel 4), marking the first anniversary of her suicide. Her friends and family laugh and cry as they remember her, in all her vivacity and volatility, from childhood, through television stardom and on to disaster.
