Love Island to return tonight with tribute to ex-host Caroline Flack

The ITV2 show didn’t air episodes on Saturday or Sunday following the death of former host Caroline Flack.

There had been speculation bout whether the rest of the series would air.

However ITV confirmed that the show will return on Monday night with with a tribute to Flack.

A spokesperson for the television channel said on Sunday: ‘Many people at ITV knew Caroline well and held her in great affection.

‘All of us are absolutely devastated at this tragic news.

‘After careful consultation between Caroline's representatives and the Love Island production team and given how close we still are to the news of Caroline's tragic death we have decided not to broadcast tonight's Love Island out of respect for Caroline's family.

‘Love Island will return tomorrow night which will include a tribute to Caroline who will be forever in our hearts.’

Flack was found dead at the age of 40 at her home in east London on Saturday.

The tragedy has put the spotlight back on the pressures which come with TV celebrity.

Flack is the fourth person linked to the ITV2 dating programme to have killed themselves.

Sophie Gradon, who was a contestant in 2016, was found dead at her home in 2018 at the age of 32.

Her boyfriend Aaron Armstrong, who had found her body, killed himself three weeks later. He was 25.

Mike Thalassitis, who appeared in the 2017 series, was 26 when he was found dead in a park in March last year.

Flack's former X Factor colleague Dermot O'Leary said he had ‘candles lit’ in her memory, and her Love Island colleague Iain Stirling, the programme's narrator, shared a video of Flack from a performance on Strictly Come Dancing in 2014 and wrote: ‘Today my friend slow motion walked into heaven. I will miss her always. Thank you for everything x.’

Laura Whitmore, who replaced Flack as Love Island host for the latest series, tweeted ‘I'm trying to find the words but I can't’, followed by a broken heart emoji.