Carole Anne Malone (born 14 October 1954) is an English TV presenter, journalist and broadcaster.

Career

Malone was born on 14 October 1954 in the mining village of

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, near

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. She started her career as a

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before moving into television. She hosted her own light-hearted court show, '' Guilty!'', on

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from 1997 to 1999. In 2002 and 2005, Malone was a guest panellist on ''

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'', later returned as a guest anchor covering

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' maternity in 2007. Between 2006 and 2010, Malone was a regular panellist on ''

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'', and again from 2013 to 2018 on Channel 5. She appears regularly on ''

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'' on Wednesdays, its successor in the same slot. In 2006, she appeared on the

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reality show ''

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''. She was made team captain of

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and

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, and lost three stone. In 2007, Malone was the seventh celebrity housemate to enter ''

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'' in January 2007 and was second to be evicted from the Big Brother House on 12 January 2007. Malone had often been critical of ''Big Brother'' and on her entering the house, host

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read out many of Malone's criticisms, to jeers from the live crowd. After spending 10 years at the ''

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'', she then wrote for the ''

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'' until its closure in July 2011. In an article earlier in 2011 Malone had written of how proud she'd always been of the ''News of the World'', despite spending ten years working with its fiercest rival at the ''

''. From September 2007 to April 2011, she appeared as a regular discussion contributor on ''

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'' and, since 2009, has regularly reviewed the newspapers on '' This Morning''. From 2017 to 2021, Malone appeared weekly as a presenter on

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' '' The Pledge''. Since 2021, she has appeared regularly on

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and every Wednesday, on

Controversy

In 2009, a complaint was made to the

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about a Malone column in the ''

'', which claimed that illegal immigrants receive "free cars", leading to the newspaper being forced to issue a clarification that "illegal immigrants do not receive such a benefit and apologise for the error".

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, writing on 12 February 2012 in the Irish '' Sunday Independent'', said of

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"Is it any wonder she was reduced to tears in the October 2007

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interview? Did we feel sympathy for her then? No. 'Heather Mills has Melt Down' screamed the headlines, so now she had lost her marbles to boot. And if that wasn't enough, Carole Malone of the ''

'', one of the papers that were relentless in their attacks on Mills, accused her of staging an act on live TV in order to further her cause in the upcoming divorce hearing. How cruel can you get?" On 14 May 2012, while on ITV's '' This Morning'', her comments implied a family were partly to blame for the deaths of six children in an

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as they received significant state benefits which she felt drew resentment from the local populace, describing the events as "an accident waiting to happen". ITV apologised for the comments.

Personal life

Malone is married to Emir Mulabegovic, a Bosnian man. They live in London.

References

External links

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