Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth review – a disturbing look at the star’s turbulent last months

<p>In this excellent series, Flack’s mother Christine is steely and resolute as she questions a growing number of inconsistencies and demands answers about her daughter’s death</p><p></p><p></p><p>On the evening of 15 February 2020, news broke that the television presenter Caroline Flack had been found dead at her London home. Almost six years later, her death by suicide still feels shocking. Caroline was one of Britain’s most beloved hosts, best known as the face of Love Island UK. She had also presented The X Factor, and won the 12th series of Strictly Come Dancing alongside Pasha Kovalev. As well as an enviable TV career, she had the kind of girl-next-door approachability that made viewers feel as though they knew her off-screen as well as on it. Yet in the months before her death, her career had seemingly started to crumble, as she faced charges of assault by battery against her boyfriend, Lewis Burton.</p><p>This new series comes from the makers of the 2021 documentary Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death. While that film sensitively examined the emotional issues that had beset Flack since adolescence, Search for the Truth concentrates firmly on the months that followed the alleged assault against Burton in December 2019. Caroline’s mother, Christine, has analysed the evidence and spoken to experts – among them Caroline’s former publicist, and the former chief prosecutor of the crown prosecution service (CPS), who once personally referred to the case as one of domestic abuse. Christine’s goal is to ascertain whether her daughter was treated differently by the justice system because of who she was. In other words: did Caroline’s public profile transform a charged row between a couple over accusations of infidelity into something with far more serious consequences?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/10/caroline-flack-search-for-the-truth-review-a-disturbing-look-at-the-s