There is a new challenger for the most baleful piece of television commissioning. It is called “Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth”, a two-part Disney documentary into the entertainer’s 2020 suicide. The story goes something like this: Flack was a beloved star of the small screen – hosting X-factor and Love Island, winning Strictly Come Dancing – before an arrest for assault, a fall from grace, a public monstering at the hands of the tabloids, and her tragic suicide. Now a TV show trawls through her final weeks under the faux-noble guise of “truth seeking”.
It’s enough to make me want to discard my phone in a lake and move to the Eurasian steppe. The show suggests that Flack was treated with unusual harshness by the police because she was a celebrity, and says that
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