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Caroline Flack found dead

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  • #52
    brevity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,587 ✭✭✭brevity


    The gutter press and social media mobs are disgusting imo.

    No consideration or empathy.


  • #53
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    NIMAN wrote: »
    ... and for second time, I didn't delete it.

    EDIT: won't be posting here any more.....annoying some fans too much.

    I'm not a fan of hers or the programme she was on. Also not a fan of morons that post 'who' on a thread about a death when a link to who they were is contained in the OP.


  • #54
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    That's shocking news. I dont watch Love Island but I remember Caroline from The x factor when she co hosted with Olly Murs. She was a talented presenter. Very sad her life has ended like this. May she Rest In Peace.


  • #55
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    I only occasionally follow showbiz, but I'm not surprised.

    I'd hate to be in any way famous.
    You have no personal life in the media spotlight.
    Any faults and failings are everyone's news and if you've any troubles, you're even more entertainment.
    It's a tough game as without them you are nothing.

    Poor girl and her family.


  • #56
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,585 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    CullyhannaMan2 wrote: »
    Fake news RTÉ not reporting it yet.

    https://news.sky.com/story/caroline-flack-former-love-island-presenter-found-dead-11935068


  • #57
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    NIMAN wrote: »

    EDIT: won't be posting here any more....

    Good decision.


  • #58
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    Rmgblue wrote: »
    I actually can't get my head around this. The media have alot to answer here...

    It’s awful but I can’t see how it’s the media’s fault she wasn’t even in the papers recently


  • #59
    Rmgblue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 306 ✭✭Rmgblue


    She never stood a chance when they had her reported guilty from the get go.
    Blaze420 wrote: »
    For reporting her correctly as an a abusive partner?


  • #60
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    For reporting her correctly as an a abusive partner?

    She wasn't convicted of anything. Not saying it didn't happen, just pointing out it was an alleged assault. She was due back in court next month.


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  • #61
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Mod

    I deleted a 'who?' comment and various reactions to it.

    Whether a serious question or AH level wit, this is not the place for it. No more discussion of it.


  • #62
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    NIMAN wrote: »

    This is AH, its full of crass, off the cuff and flippant remarks.

    Not in death threads for fuck sake. Don't post here again.


  • #63
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,918 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    S.G.M. wrote: »
    And if you think that gives you license to make an insensitive remark about a woman who just committed suicide then you may want to re-evaluate some things

    What's the point of the thread then?

    It is after hours and why should we all be bound by your moral compass?

    There needs to be an RIP section for stuff like this imo.


  • #64
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Whatever she was like as a person, she was someone's daughter, and no parent should have to bury their child.


  • #65
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    It’s very sad that a 40 year old has lost their life, however I disagree with people on here (and in their droves on Twitter) blaming the press for “bullying” her. She did something horrific, and it was widely reported. It wasn’t a “minor indiscretion”; she viciously attacked her partner. It’s a huge shame that she couldn’t see any other way out but I disagree that the press should be blamed.

    And as much as I hate to say it, I do think if genders were reversed the reaction would be different.


  • #66
    Die Hard 2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭Die Hard 2019


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Whatever she was like as a person, she was someone's daughter, and no parent should have to bury their child.

    The media didn't kill her. She killed herself


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  • #67
    Ironicname
    Registered Users Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭Ironicname


    Kermit.de.frog wrote:
    It is after hours and why should we all be bound by your moral compass?

    Because if you need a moral compass to point that posting crass comments about someone who committed suicide literally minutes after the news breaks is a ****ty thing to do, you may not be on the right site.

    After hours may be a little "wild" but it isn't 4chan.


  • #68
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    dark crystal wrote: »
    She wasn't convicted of anything. Not saying it didn't happen, just pointing out it was an alleged assault. She was due back in court next month.

    Really yeah? And what would the reaction be if it was a
    male instead? Sorry but I’m not buying the innocent until trial bull**** because plenty of men have been excoriated in public forums before that even happens, but now it’s a female we have to deflect and feel sorry? Not happening, equality etc etc


  • #69
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,063 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    There needs to be an RIP section for stuff like this imo.

    There is

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1360

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



  • #70
    Ironicname
    Registered Users Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭Ironicname


    dark crystal wrote:
    She wasn't convicted of anything.

    In fairness, would you say the same for Jimmy saville?


  • #71
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Die Hard 2019 wrote: »
    The media didn't kill her. She killed herself
    Did you mean to quote me? I didn't suggest otherwise.


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  • #72
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Immortal Starlight wrote: »
    That's shocking news. I dont watch Love Island but I remember Caroline from The x factor when she co hosted with Olly Murs. She was a talented presenter. Very sad her life has ended like this. May she Rest In Peace.

    She was shockingly bad at that, I think that might have been where her career started to take a dip.
    She was bag of nerves on that, they made the mess up with the verdict one week and she got worse as it went on.


  • #73
    strandroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭strandroad


    By all accounts she was looking at a criminal conviction but it's still terribly sad that she chose to go like that. She was talented and entertaining in her work, and not beyond rehabilitation as a person.


  • #74
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    It’s very sad that a 40 year old has lost their life, however I disagree with people on here (and in their droves on Twitter) blaming the press for “bullying” her. She did something horrific, and it was widely reported. It wasn’t a “minor indiscretion”; she viciously attacked her partner. It’s a huge shame that she couldn’t see any other way out but I disagree that the press should be blamed.

    And as much as I hate to say it, I do think if genders were reversed the reaction would be different.

    I do agree with all of the above, but the court case was yet to come, and the bf didn’t want to press charges so it seems odd I doubt she’d have served time, I’d imagine the problems run deeper


  • #75
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    Really yeah? And what would the reaction be if it was a
    male instead? Sorry but I’m not buying the innocent until trial bull**** because plenty of men have been excoriated in public forums before that even happens, but now it’s a female we have to deflect and feel sorry? Not happening, equality etc etc

    I'm really not interested in feeding into this gender war BS. I was just pointing out a fact, not taking a stance either way.


  • #76
    Ikozma
    Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Ikozma


    Another death caused by media scum


  • #77
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    Ikozma wrote: »
    Another death caused by media scum

    Booo hoo, maybe the scum is not the media at all here? Just a thought


  • #78
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,933 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    .

    And as much as I hate to say it, I do think if genders were reversed the reaction would be different.

    I was going to post similar tbh.

    If a Male was violently abusive to their sleeping partner and then killed themselves before trial, one can make a fairly good guess at them being labelled a coward, narcissistic or not wanting their carefully constructed world shown up...

    This isn't a thread to be laying blame and tbh many people reading this thread and the outpouring of grief on social media are likely in a dark place.

    Seeing someone lionised after death, when they indeed all of us are far from perfect is a dangerous thing.

    Far too many troubled people take their life and don't seek help.

    If anyone, anyone at all feels troubled by the demon of suicide or depression.

    Reach out, the Samaritans are great, as are Pieta House.
    Criticism and anger happens, don't let that take away your own agency...
    Seek help.

    R.I.P Caroline, and to those affected by her loss don't glamourise it please.


  • #79
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    Booo hoo, maybe the scum is not the media at all here? Just a thought
    Ah it's obviously awful for her parents that their daughter killed herself. The media didn't kill her, her behaviour was atrocious, but no need for the "boo hoo" stuff when she has a family.


  • #80
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,752 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Very sad news and again so young.

    It doesn't matter who you are, whether rich and famous or poor and unknown, maybe just your average person. No one knows what is going on in their head or how they are feeling, a lot of the time people just keep it to themselves.

    Whatever she may or may not have done is irrelevant in that this is a tragedy for her family, friends, colleagues and suicide is a tragedy for society every time it happens.
    It is just so sad when people mistakenly think this is the only way out, they can't help it and it can be invisible to the people who matter in a person's life who is suffering like this.
    It's just terrible.


  • #81
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Of course the media arent totally to blame , they obviously didnt physically kill her.

    But the UK tabloids are the worst type of parasites. A totally different league. They will hound people and week after week, month after month try to drag them down and if possible get a photo of them at their most vulnerable. They have no limits and they think they can just abuse and push people until they crack, unfortunately this is the ultimate price.

    Yes, she did a horrible thing , and yes it was rightly reported in the media. It was going through the proper channels and she was due in court.

    But thats not good enough for the scum, they needed more entertainment from her obvious personal issues and now they've got their Sunday morning headlines.

    Anyone defending the gutter tabloids on this one has some warped morals of whats okay


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  • #82
    Die Hard 2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭Die Hard 2019


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Did you mean to quote me? I didn't suggest otherwise.

    Nope donno what happened there 😁


  • #83
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    strandroad wrote: »
    By all accounts she was looking at a criminal conviction but it's still terribly sad that she chose to go like that. She was talented and entertaining in her work, and not beyond rehabilitation as a person.

    It's a cliché in these circumstances but she took a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Unfortunately lots of people do the same and if only they could see there is way out if everything and things get better.

    Condolences to her family and friends.


  • #84
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    I do agree with all of the above, but the court case was yet to come, and the bf didn’t want to press charges so it seems odd I doubt she’d have served time, I’d imagine the problems run deeper

    The aggrieved party often doesn’t want to. That’s nothing new.


  • #85
    Dots1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Dots1982


    Blaze420 wrote: »
    Booo hoo, maybe the scum is not the media at all here? Just a thought

    “Boohoo”, stay classy


  • #86
    DavidLyons_
    Registered Users Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭DavidLyons_


    Cina wrote: »
    Man why don't you cop the f*ck on? Someone just committed suicide and you're almost trying to justify it as a good thing and bring anti feminist nonsense into it. It's pathetic.

    ♫ Here he comes to save the daaaay!! ♫


  • #87
    Dots1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Dots1982


    Im guessing the press will subtlety blame the boyfriend


  • #88
    Gabriel Drab Mandrill
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Gabriel Drab Mandrill


    SeaFields wrote: »
    It's a cliché in these circumstances but she took a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Unfortunately lots of people do the same and if only they could see there is way out if everything and things get better.

    Condolences to her family and friends.

    Losing her tv career and being up for trial is a bit more than a temporary problem to be fair.


  • #89
    munster87
    Registered Users Posts: 4,304 ✭✭✭munster87


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Losing her tv career and being up for trial is a bit more than a temporary problem to be fair.

    Of course they were only temporary problems


  • #90
    Blaze420
    Closed Accounts Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Blaze420


    Dots1982 wrote: »
    “Boohoo”, stay classy

    No different to the comments here if it was a fella at the centre of a domestic abuse situation. So **** off :)


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  • #91
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    I have the upmost sympathy for anyone suffering a mental illness especially if it leads them to this but can we please try to think logically about this?

    First of all can we stop with blaming the press - she and she alone took the decision to do what she did. No one else. She was obviously suffering but there has to have been more to it than being hounded by the press which by all accounts she brought on herself.

    Secondly why is everyone so determined to ignore the fact that she viciously assaulted her boyfriend? If this was man we were talking about everyone would be saying good riddance.

    You can’t have one reaction for one and a different one for the other.


  • #92
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,457 ✭✭✭Tork


    This is going to be traumatic for the boyfriend. Even though I believe she assaulted him, he's not going to see it that way. He tried to retract the charges and will be torturing himself now over his decision to pick up the phone. And naturally, the media spotlight will be trained back on him again.


  • #93
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,855 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    tastyt wrote: »
    Of course the media arent totally to blame , they obviously didnt physically kill her.

    But the UK tabloids are the worst type of parasites. A totally different league. They will hound people and week after week, month after month try to drag them down and if possible get a photo of them at their most vulnerable. They have no limits and they think they can just abuse and push people until they crack, unfortunately this is the ultimate price.

    Yes, she did a horrible thing , and yes it was rightly reported in the media. It was going through the proper channels and she was due in court.

    But thats not good enough for the scum, they needed more entertainment from her obvious personal issues and now they've got their Sunday morning headlines.

    Anyone defending the gutter tabloids on this one has some warped morals of whats okay

    The press don't exist in a vacuum though and there are a massive amount of people that consume tabloids and gossip rags. There's a market for it and that reflects more on society than on the people operating in that market.

    I know little about this situation but I'd guess social media was fairly merciless towards her as well and if tabloids are cess pits, social media is a few steps down from that because lots of people think they can throw whatever abuse they want. I'd venture a guess that a lot of people jumping on Flack for the assault are the same people lamenting her death and having a go at tabloids.

    Desperately sad to see a 40 year old die. If the allegations are true, it says a lot about her as a person but to die at such a young age is sad.


  • #94
    nervous_twitch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭nervous_twitch


    banie01 wrote: »
    I was going to post similar tbh.

    If a Male was violently abusive to their sleeping partner and then killed themselves before trial, one can make a fairly good guess at them being labelled a coward, narcissistic or not wanting their carefully constructed world shown up...

    This isn't a thread to be laying blame and tbh many people reading this thread and the outpouring of grief on social media are likely in a dark place.

    Seeing someone lionised after death, when they indeed all of us are far from perfect is a dangerous thing.

    Far too many troubled people take their life and don't seek help.

    If anyone, anyone at all feels troubled by the demon of suicide or depression.

    Reach out, the Samaritans are great, as are Pieta House.
    Criticism and anger happens, don't let that take away your own agency...
    Seek help.

    R.I.P Caroline, and to those affected by her loss don't glamourise it please.

    No-one is lionising it, though. The gravity of her mistakes and an unrelenting media couldn't be turned off. Domestic abuse is horrific, male or female, but this isn't the solution.


  • #95
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »

    Secondly why is everyone so determined to ignore the fact that she viciously assaulted her boyfriend? If this was man we were talking about everyone would be saying good riddance.

    You can’t have one reaction for one and a different one for the other.

    I suspect the gender war proponents on here would be inclined to assume the innocence of a male celebrity until proven guilty in a court of law.

    You can’t have one reaction for one and a different one for the other.


  • #96
    Ironicname
    Registered Users Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭Ironicname


    SeaFields wrote:
    It's a cliché in these circumstances but she took a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Unfortunately lots of people do the same and if only they could see there is way out if everything and things get better.

    I'm actually only two days out of hospital for self harm and suicidal thoughts. Obviously, the extent wasn't as bad as this situation but, man, this horrible event really hit home.

    It will be sickening to see the media who caused this, in the coming days, sing her praises.

    (I have no issue with the media reporting her indiscretions as she was a celebrity, but the trash media like the the daily mail, TMZ etc etc took it too far)


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  • #97
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,933 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    nervous_twitch wrote: »
    No-one is lionising it, though. The gravity of her mistakes and an unrelenting media couldn't be turned off. Domestic abuse is horrific, male or female, but this isn't the solution.

    Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your point of view, many on my own social media feeds are.

    And nowhere in my post did I suggest that this was a solution to domestic violence.


  • #98
    tinofapples
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,963 ✭✭✭tinofapples


    Yet again pity someone couldn't help her through what was obviously a difficult period in her life. God love her and her family, so sad. Beautiful and successful girl in a tough industry.

    Problems are temporary.


  • #99
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


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    getimage.aspx?regionKey=RsSO86R%2BMXpBsSWzUBhyTw%3D%3D

    F4J-DOMESTIC-ABUSE-AD.jpg

    Media did nothing wrong...


  • #100
    Tork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,457 ✭✭✭Tork


    Naturally, there are already people spewing hatred towards Lewis Burton. It's all his fault, apparently.


  • #101
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    Ironicname wrote: »
    I'm actually only two days out of hospital for self harm and suicidal thoughts. Obviously, the extent wasn't as bad as this situation but, man, this horrible event really hit home.

    It will be sickening to see the media who caused this, in the coming days, sing her praises.

    (I have no issue with the media reporting her indiscretions as she was a celebrity, but the trash media like the the daily mail, TMZ etc etc took it too far)

    I know how you feel and a part of me is envious of her as she now has peace, something I crave, but it’s her family I really feel for


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