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Love Island is to return on Monday night after Saturday and Sunday's episodes were cancelled following former host Caroline Flack's death.

ITV said the show would feature a tribute to Flack, who was found dead in her north London home on Saturday.

A lawyer for the 40-year-old's family said she had taken her own life.

Flack was replaced as host of the dating show after being charged with assaulting her boyfriend last year, and had been due to stand trial.

ITV said it had chosen not to air Sunday's show "out of respect for Caroline's family", adding "all of us are absolutely devastated".

"Love Island will return tomorrow night which will include a tribute to Caroline who will be forever in our hearts," the broadcaster added in a statement.

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Love Island's sixth season and first winter series, which is being filmed in South Africa, is due to end on Sunday, 23 February.

Flack stood down from the show after she was charged with assaulting her boyfriend, Lewis Burton, in December. She denied the charge.

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Her management company said she had been "under huge pressure" since then.

It criticised the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for refusing to drop the charge, even though Mr Burton said he did not want the case to go ahead.

Bail conditions had stopped Flack having any contact with Mr Burton ahead of her trial next month.

The CPS said it would not comment on the specifics of the case but in response to questions about its role, it outlined on Sunday how it reached decisions over whether or not to charge someone.

A statement said: "We do not decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offence - that is for the jury, judge or magistrate - but we must make the key decision of whether a case should be put before a court."

It said every decision over whether to charge someone is based on the same two-stage test - does the evidence provide a realistic prospect of conviction, and is it in the public interest to prosecute?

That includes asking how serious the offence is, the harm caused to the victim and whether prosecution is a proportionate response.

Former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said his impression was that the case had been determined to be a serious case, and one which the CPS felt it should proceed with "regardless of what the victim thought".