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Love Island star Caroline Flack charged with assault after 'bust up with boyfriend'


TV presenter Caroline Flack has been charged with assault “following a private domestic incident” believed to involve her boyfriend Lewis Burton.

The Love Island host, 40, was charged on Friday with assault by beating, the Metropolitan Police said.

She was arrested in Islington, north London, after an incident at approximately 5.25am on Thursday after reports of a man being assaulted.

Police did not name the man but they said he was not seriously injured.

A spokesman for Flack said: “We confirm that police attended Caroline’s home following a private domestic incident.

“She is co-operating with the appropriate people to resolve matters. We will not be making any further comment for legal reasons.”

Flack will appear on bail at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on December 23.

A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “We were called yesterday at 5.28am to a residential address in Islington.

Caroline Flack has been charged with assault “following a private domestic incident”

“We treated two people at the scene and took one person to hospital.”

The presenter – who split with previous boyfriend Andrew Brady in July last year – has recently been pictured with Burton, 27, a former professional tennis player and model.

They have shared pictures with each other on their Instagram accounts.

Flack is known for hosting TV programmes including The X Factor, The Xtra Factor and I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! spin-off show Extra Camp.

In 2014, she won Strictly Come Dancing and since 2015 has hosted ITV2 reality show Love Island and its accompanying programme, Aftersun.

The winter series of Love Island is due to start in January in South Africa.

ITV declined to comment.





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