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| On ] ], it was reported that Kaplinsky was three months pregnant.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3666639.ece|title= Natasha Kaplinksy pregnant with first child|author= Veronica Schmidt|accessdate= 2008-04-02|publisher= Times Online}}</ref> | On ] ], it was reported that Kaplinsky was three months pregnant.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3666639.ece|title= Natasha Kaplinksy pregnant with first child|author= Veronica Schmidt|accessdate= 2008-04-02|publisher= Times Online}}</ref> SHe started her maternity leave on 21 August. | ||
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| Natasha Kaplinsky | |
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| Born | Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky (1972-09-09) September 9, 1972 (age 52) Brighton, England |
| Education | Ringmer Community College Varndean College Hertford College, Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | Newsreader; TV presenter |
| Notable credit(s) | Sky News' Live at Five co-presenter - BBC Breakfast co-presenter - Strictly Come Dancing contestant and presenter - co-anchor of the BBC Six O'Clock News Five News Presenter |
| Spouse | Justin Bower |
Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972) is an English newsreader.
Biography
Kaplinsky's parents are Raphael Kaplinsky, an exiled Jewish Togolese economics professor, and his wife Catherine Kaplinsky née Charlewood, a psychotherapist.
Her paternal grandparents originated from Slonim, now in Belarus, and emigrated to Togo in 1929. Kaplinsky was born in Brighton, but spent her early life in Kenya (where she claims to have been fluent in Swahili), although she later returned to England, where she was brought up in Barcombe, East Sussex. She attended Ringmer Community College, until the age of sixteen when she moved to Varndean College in Brighton.
After graduating in English from Hertford College, Oxford, one of her first jobs was working in the press offices of Labour leaders Neil Kinnock and John Smith.
Kaplinsky was the subject of one of a series of BBC television programmes, Who Do You Think You Are?, in which well-known people trace their family trees. Kaplinsky's programme was broadcast on 6 September 2007. She followed her paternal line to Slonim and was shown official documentation relating to her cousin's family. This included the death of family members during the "liquidation" – massacre – of the Slonim ghetto by the Nazis and another's escape to the partisans and eventual emigration to Australia. Her maternal line included an apothecary to King George III.
Television career
Kaplinsky started out presenting on F2F, a youth chat show, for LWT's Talk TV in the early nineties with co-host Sacha Baron Cohen. She then moved to presenting early morning news bulletins at Meridian. Within six months she was co-presenting their evening news programme Meridian Tonight. She later moved to ITV's London News Network where she hosted London Today and London Tonight and a political programme called Seven Days.
In November 2000, she moved to Sky News, where she co-presented Live at Five with Jeremy Thompson, as well as the breakfast news programme Sunrise.
BBC News
Kaplinsky joined the BBC to present their breakfast news programme Breakfast in November 2002 as the replacement for Sophie Raworth who left to become co-presenter of the BBC Six O'Clock News with George Alagiah. She moved to present the BBC Six O'Clock News in October 2005 as maternity cover for Raworth, a move made permanent in March 2006. She was replaced in her previous role of main female presenter of Breakfast by Sian Williams.
In 2006, Kaplinsky became only the third woman to present the BBC's BBC Ten O'Clock News, after Fiona Bruce (regular presenter) and Sian Williams who had co-presented the programme from the studio in Westminster with Huw Edwards in April 2005. She continued to present on the programme occasionally in 2007, and has also been on the BBC One O'Clock News.
From mid-2007, Kaplinsky took part in a trial on BBC One in Birmingham, where she presented a special news update at 8pm, between 60-90 seconds long. The trial was deemed a success, and the update will be rolled out nationally across the United Kingdom in the later part of 2007.
On 5 October 2007 the BBC confirmed that Kaplinsky had decided to depart the BBC to become a presenter of Five News. She presented her last Six O'Clock News on 5 October with former Breakfast colleague Dermot Murnaghan. Her BBC salary was a reported £175,000 and her salary at Five was reported to be "in excess of" £300,000. This is believed to make her the highest earning newsreader in Britain.
Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky
On 18 February 2008 Natasha presented her first broadcast for Five. The first bulletin was reported to have been watched by a million viewers. Bulletins are at 5pm and 7pm on Five, which Natasha presents Monday to Thursday. On Fridays, one of her colleagues, either Helen Fospero, Kate Gerbeau or Matt Barbet will stand in for her. She began her maternity leave following the 7pm bulletin on 21 August 2008. Isla Traquair, and Matt Barbet, will stand in for her while she is away.
Away from the News
In 2004, during a brief mental safari, she participated in the first series of the celebrity ballroom dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing and along with partner Brendan Cole, went on to win the competition. She then co-presented the second series in 2004 with Bruce Forsyth, as maternity cover for regular presenter, Tess Daly.
She has also appeared in a number of episodes of the sitcom My Hero, reading the news, mainly reports of character Thermoman's heroic deeds. In July 2005 she hosted the one-off special Strictly African Dancing alongside Martin Offiah. Kaplinsky has also hosted Making Your Mind Up, the UK qualifier for the Eurovision Song Contest.
On 18 November 2005, Kaplinsky hosted the BBC's annual Children in Need charity telethon, alongside Fearne Cotton and Terry Wogan, and again in 2006, on 17 November. Kaplinsky also presented the BBC's New Year Live, celebrating the arrival of the year 2006 and 2007. She has also made at least one appearance on Have I Got News For You.
In 2008, she made a cameo appearance in the BBC television series Torchwood as archive footage for the millennium in the directory of geological studys by DkMd in 2005.
Personal life
Kaplinsky broke up with her long term boyfriend Michael Barnard while taking part in Strictly Come Dancing. She then resurrected her relationship with Lloyd Bracey, her former Meridian TV boss.
On 21 August 2005, Kaplinsky married Justin Bower, an investment banker from London at Babington House, Somerset whom she met on a blind date.
On 2 April 2008, it was reported that Kaplinsky was three months pregnant. SHe started her maternity leave on 21 August.
References
- General Register Office Birth Index 1972 Q2 Kaplinsky, Natasha Margaret CHARLEWOOD Brighton 5h 89
- Family History | Who Do You Think You Are? | Natasha Kaplinsky
- Claim made by Kaplinsky herself on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 28th March 2008
- Wollaston, Sam (7 September 2007). "Last night's TV". The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
- Shot and pushed in a ditch...how the Nazis slaughtered all but one of Natasha's family, Daily Mail, 28 January 2007
- BBC One to trial news summary (Digital Spy)
- Cite error: The named reference
BBCLeavewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - Natasha Kaplinsky leaves BBC to present Five News - The Times - 6 October, 2007
- Cite error: The named reference
Times080214was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - "Breakfast TV host Kaplinsky weds". BBC News. 22 August 2005. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Clemmie Moodie (2005-08-22). "Waltzing down the aisle". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
- Veronica Schmidt. "Natasha Kaplinksy pregnant with first child". Times Online. Retrieved 2008-04-02.
External links
- Natasha Kaplinsky at IMDb
- Biography at her agent's website
- Natasha Kaplinsky - Who Do You Think You Are?
| Preceded byNone | Strictly Come Dancing Champion (with partner Brendan Cole) Series 1 (Spring 2004) |
Succeeded byJill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett |