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Harry Styles' Past Romance Revealed
2 Feb
Summary
- Harry Styles and Caroline Flack dated in 2011 when he was 17.
- Their age gap led to intense online bullying against Flack.
- Styles honored Flack with a black ribbon at the Brit Awards.
In 2011, Harry Styles began a relationship with Caroline Flack while he was a contestant on The X Factor. Styles, who was 17 at the time, dated Flack, who was 32, after meeting her during the show's broadcast.
Their romance quickly became public, subjecting Flack to severe online bullying and harassment. She detailed the ordeal in her autobiography, describing how public attention turned negative after she was photographed leaving his home.
The strain of the public backlash contributed to their eventual breakup after only a few months. Flack tragically passed away in 2020.
Despite their relationship ending years prior, Harry Styles publicly honored Caroline Flack by wearing a black ribbon to the Brit Awards in the year of her death.
