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Natalie Pinkham: ‘Why I’m running the London Marathon in memory of my mate, Caroline Flack’

Source: Samaritans

Natalie Pinkham can envisage her reaction to running a first marathon. Caroline’s reaction. “She would laugh. I can hear her voice now… ‘what you doing, Pinks!’ Whenever I have a low moment, I do think about Caroline and the depths of despair she must have gone through.”

It’s been more than four years since , a television presenter beloved across the country and of ITV’s in her final years, tragically at the age of 40. In the years since, Pinkham has spearheaded the organising of an annual summer festival for .

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