Laura pays a poetic tribute to tragic pal Caroline

Love Island host reads out poem on radio station to mark Women’s Day

LAURA Whitmore marked International Women’s Day yesterday by reading out a poem on her radio show in honour of her tragic pal Caroline Flack.

The 40-year-old TV presenter died on February 15 after taking her own life.

Laura’s poem read: “She is strong, she is fierce; she is smart, she is tough; she is happy, she is sad, she is polished, she is rough, she is vulnerable, she is insecure, she doesn’t always know what to do; but, she learns, she grows, she’s a force to be reckoned with, she is YOU.

“Happy Women’s day to all my ladies in all your shapes and forms. Love Laura x.”

It comes as the Love Island host, from Bray, Co Wicklow, is set to make £1million to host the reality dating series for the next two years after impressing TV bosses.

The 34-year-old will return to the hit ITV2 programme this summer and is also expected to reprise her role as the host of support show After Sun.

But she will no doubt be feeling a bitter-sweet connotation to the contract following the death of former host Caroline last month.

Fans, friends and former contestants of Love Island were left devastated when she took her own life aged 40 after being arrested and charged over an alleged assault last December.

Caroline dropped out of presenting the first winter edition of Love Island in January after an alleged domestic incident took place at her London home.

However, ITV and Caroline had stated the door had been left open for her to return.

On her BBC Radio 5 Live show the day after her pal’s death, Laura read out a speech she wrote, saying: “Caroline loved love. That’s all she wanted which is why Love Island was so important to her.”