Love Island Fans Emotional Over 10th Anniversary Special, Criticize ITV for Missing Tribute to Caroline Flack

Love Island fans were left emotional after seeing Caroline Flack return to screens on Sunday night in the one-off anniversary special.

But some viewers were left upset and ‘disappointed’ that there was no tribute to remember the late presenter at the end of the show.

The TV star died at her North East London home on February 15, 2020, at the age of 40 and her death was ruled a suicide in an inquest in August of that year.

Love Island: A Decade of Love saw former Islanders return to take a trip down memory lane and look back at the last 10 years of the reality show.

Stars including newly-wed Dani Dyer, as well as Liam Reardon and Millie Court, Demi Jones and Shaughna Phillips made an iconic return for the special.

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Love Island fans were left emotional as the one-off anniversary special saw late presenter Caroline Flack return to screens on Sunday night (pictured on show in 2019)

But some viewers watched in disbelief and took to social media to share how they were ‘disappointed’ that there was no tribute at the end of the show to remember her (pictured on show in 2018)

And Caroline briefly made her return on the screen, with many left moved at her brief appearance in the special 90-minute episode.

She was seen in particular hugging Molly-Mae Hague at the fire pit after she returned from Casa Amor to meet Tommy Fury in series five.

Taking to X, fans admitted it was bittersweet to see the presenter again, and praised her for being so important to the show.

They wrote: ‘Aw, Caroline. She was Love Island. She genuinely cared about everyone.’; ‘Love seeing Caroline again’; ‘big up Caroline’.

‘The hardest part of watching back Love Island’s ten years of highlights is seeing how happy Caroline was. Love Island was truly her happy place’.

However, many also voiced their disappointment that there was no special tribute to Caroline, nor former contestants Mike Thalassitis and Sophie Gradon, who both also tragically took their lives after starring on the show.

They took to social media to write: ‘@LoveIsland really disappointed there was nothing on Caroline Flack in the birthday episode’;

‘I don’t like that they didn’t do a mini tribute to Caroline Flack, she was basically responsible for the show coming back’; ‘Ten years of love island and no sign of Caroline Flack’.

Taking to X, fans admitted it was bittersweet to see the presenter again, and praised her for being so important to the show

‘I’m shocked they didn’t even pay tribute to her Mike and Sophie’; ‘They celebrated a decade of love island without a tribute for Caroline flack, she was love island’.

‘Did anyone else thing there would be like an in memoriam thing at the end for Caroline Flack? Kind of weird there wasn’t?’

‘At the end of the day without Caroline there would be no #LoveIsland like they could of done a slide show or something to acknowledge her but they didn’t they could of payed tribute to Mike and Sophie i’m so disappointed’.

Last year, The Met has said it is making ‘further enquiries’ as new witness evidence ‘may be available’ relating to the actions of officers in appealing the initial CPS decision not to charge Caroline.

Her bereft mother, Christine Flack, said she and her family had been left with ‘important, unanswered questions’ and vowed ‘we won’t ‘stop until we get the truth’.

At the time, the TV star’s mother told the Mirror: ‘We won’t stop until we get the truth. Something very unusual happened to Carrie at the police station that night, but no one kept a proper record explaining why.

‘I have now made a complaint to compel the officer to give the -statement we think he should have given four years ago. As a family, we have been left with important -unanswered questions.’