Carole Anne Malone (born 14 October 1954) is an English TV presenter, journalist, newspaper columnist and broadcaster.
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 Sunday Mirror.
In 2009, a complaint was made to the Press Complaints Commission about a Malone column in the News of the World, 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".
[6] Celia Larkin, writing on 12 February 2012 in the Irish Sunday Independent, said of Heather Mills "Is it any wonder she was reduced to tears in the October 2007 GMTV interview?
And if that wasn't enough, Carole Malone of the Sunday Mirror, 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.
"[7] 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 arson attack as they received significant state benefits which she felt drew resentment from the local populace, describing the events as "an accident waiting to happen".