Carole Caplin
| Carole Caplin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 January 1962 |
| Residence | London |
| Occupation | Health and wellbeing consultant |
| Website | bowskillclinic.com/carole/ |
Carole Caplin (born 8 January 1962) was the style adviser to Cherie Blair and a fitness adviser to Tony Blair, when he was the British Prime Minister. She was controversial because of her relationship with the convicted conman Peter Foster.
Caplin and her elder sister were brought up by her mother, Sylvia, of Jewish descent, who was a ballet dancer with the Festival Ballet until a car crash ended her dancing career. Her mother divorced her father, a furrier, when Carole was a toddler. Caplin was educated at Glendower, a private school in South Kensington, Lillsden School for Girls, a boarding school in Kent, and Hurlingham and Chelsea Secondary School.
She appeared as a child actor in the film Accident (1967), which has a screenplay by Harold Pinter, and in television advertisements. In 1980 she became a member of the burlesque pop band Shock.
According to The Observer, during the 1980s Caplin worked for the telemarketing company Programmes Ltd, and became involved in the related Exegesis alternative therapy programme. Later Caplin set up a series of health and well-being companies.
Caplin has written a number of health and well-being books, and appeared in several television programmes, including presenting her own Channel 4 programme The Carole Caplin Treatment.
In 2002, Caplin hit the newspaper headlines in the scandal referred to as "Cheriegate" because of her involvement with Peter Foster, an Australian with criminal convictions, who assisted the Prime Minister's wife, Cherie Blair, in the purchase of two flats in Bristol. Cherie Blair tried to distance herself from Foster and briefed the press office at 10 Downing Street to make a public statement claiming that Foster was not involved with the deal. She was caught out when Foster provided evidence that she had lied. She then made a public apology, tearfully reading a prepared statement blaming her "misfortune" on the pressures of running a family and being a mother. She again tried to distance herself from Foster, but it was later revealed that she and Tony Blair had agreed to be godparents to the yet-to-be born child of Carole Caplin (Caplin later miscarried).
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