Caroline Flack is gearing up for another steamy summer in the Love Island villa – and she’s revealed she’s in a good place romantically following her recent split from ex-fiance Andrew Brady.
In an exclusive interview and photo shoot with Cosmopolitan, Caroline said she feels ‘much more powerful on her own’.
‘[I’m] getting back on the horse,’ she told the magazine. ‘I’ve been dating and really enjoying it. I’ve decided to give people a chance, go and date and have some fun with it. There doesn’t always have to be an end-goal.’
Caroline and Andrew split after a year together, but the 35-year-old says she has no regrets.
‘You can’t look on broken relationships as failures,’ she said. ‘Being engaged was the best feeling in the world – that someone wants to spend the rest of their life with you. We had a wonderful year but it didn’t work out. I don’t want anything bad to happen to Andrew, I wish nothing but good things for him. But I feel a lot more powerful when I’m on my own.’
She then addressed rumours that she’s dating her personal trainer, Bradley Simmons. ‘Everyone keeps saying I’m dating him but I’m not,’ she explained.
‘I wouldn’t want to ruin it because he’s the best thing. He’s the only constant in my life right now.’
She added: ‘I never take my private life into work, as soon as I step on set that’s it, I’m in work mode. That’s hard for people sometimes because they see or hear that stuff is going on and they really want to mention it. But I’m like, come on, we’ve got a job to do. You’re never more important than anyone else on the team.’
The Love Island presenter was also quick to defend the show’s crew from press criticism surrounding the suicide of former contestant Mike Thalassitis.
‘It’s dangerous and I’m really, really angry,’ she said.
‘It’s not just that you’re blaming a TV show, you’re blaming people and their jobs. In life we all have a duty of care to look out for each other, but I don’t think it’s fair to point fingers of blame. This is a much bigger issue than just a reality TV show, and when something this bad happens – and I’m talking about Mike – when something this horrible and sad occurs, it’s so dangerous to point fingers within hours and minutes of it happening.
‘None of us know what’s going through someone’s mind and we can’t sit there and speculate. It’s time to think about the bigger picture, about what’s going on with young men and young people and the pressures of modern life. It’s just too sad and too sensitive to talk about. He was always a total gentleman to me and I’m going to be a total lady back.’
The July issue of Cosmopolitan is on sale from 31 May.
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