Caroline Flack on THAT Harry Styles fling: ‘I was called a pervert’

Caroline Flack's romance with singer Harry Styles may have only lasted a few months, but the negative press surrounding it all still stings.

The 35-year-old has opened up about her 2011 fling with Harry, then 17, in her new tell-all autobiography.

X Factor host Caroline says it was all just "a laugh" at first, but their romance ended soon after the tabloids got wind of what was going on.

"We were both single, we got on well and we had a laugh," she writes. 

"It was only when it become public knowledge that things turned sour.

"At the beginning it was all very playful. He joked about being attracted to older women."

Despite the 15-year age gap between herself and Harry, who was a minor at the time, Caroline says she never felt "much older" than him.

"I still feel 18 and I probably act that way half the time," she adds.

For the first few weeks the pair kept their fling under wraps, but after pictures of Harry leaving Caroline's house went public, the game was up. And for Caroline, it spelled the beginning of a difficult time.

"It began to go wrong when he was pictured coming out of my house one morning," she admits.

"And that was that. In the street people started shouting 'paedophile' at me in the street and 'pervert'."

However it wasn't all bad news, as Caroline confesses she turned down a €1.35m deal… to be the face of a cougar website. Hmmm…