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Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972)
[The Donor, News and information for blood donors, Winter 2009, National Blood Service, England, page 55] is an English
newsreader, TV presenter and journalist, best known for her roles as a studio anchor on
Sky News,
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadca ...
,
Channel 5 and
ITV News.
After two years at Sky News, Kaplinsky joined BBC News in 2001 where she co-hosted ''
Breakfast
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'' until 2005, when she became the host of the ''
Six O'Clock News''. In October 2007, Kaplinsky was recruited to help relaunch Five (now known as Channel 5), reportedly for the highest fee ever paid to a UK newsreader, where she presented a new look, retitled ''
Five News
''5 News at 5'', also known as ''Channel 5 News'', is the news programme of British broadcaster Channel 5, produced by ITN from its main newsroom on Gray's Inn Road, London.
History
''5 News'' was one of the new station's flagship programme ...
with Natasha Kaplinsky'' for three years. After leaving Channel 5, she went on to join
ITV News as a presenter.
Kaplinsky has hosted light entertainment and factual programmes during her career, including ''
Children in Need'' and ''
Born to Shine
''Born to Shine'' is an ITV entertainment programme which featured celebrities who learn a new skill taught to them by talented teenagers, live on Sunday evenings. The show was presented by Natasha Kaplinsky and won by Jason Manford.
Format
Teen ...
''. She was also the subject of the most highly rated ''
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** ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' (American TV series)
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''. She was the first ever winner of the
first series of
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's ''
Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2004. Kaplinsky has co-founded a mother and baby company, Mum & You.
In 2014, the then PM
David Cameron asked Kaplinsky to become a Holocaust Commissioner leading a project to interview 112 survivors. She was awarded an
OBE in 2017 for her services to the Holocaust Commission.
In 2022, she became the latest president of the
British Board of Film Classification
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(BBFC), after the former president, Patrick Swaffer, stepped down after a 10-year contract.
Early life
Kaplinsky was born to
Raphael Kaplinsky, a South African political refugee, Professor of International Development at the
Open University
The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...
, and his wife, Catherine Kaplinsky (née Charlewood), a
psychotherapist
Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome pro ...
.
Kaplinsky's paternal grandparents were
Jewish
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, originating from the town of
Slonim (then part of
Poland
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, now located in western
Belarus
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), and immigrated to South Africa in 1929. Kaplinsky was born in
Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
, but spent her early life in
Kenya
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; she has stated that she was fluent in
Swahili. The family immigrated to the United Kingdom and Kaplinsky was brought up in
Barcombe
Barcombe is an East Sussex village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex. The parish has four settlements: old Barcombe (), the oldest settlement in the parish with the parish church; Barcombe Cross (), the more populous settl ...
, East Sussex. She attended
Ringmer Community College
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, until the age of sixteen when she moved to
Varndean College in Brighton.
After graduating with a degree in
English
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from
Hertford College, Oxford
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in 1995,
one of Kaplinsky's first jobs was working in the press offices of
Labour
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* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
leaders
Neil Kinnock
Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (born 28 March 1942) is a British former politician. As a member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of ...
and
John Smith.
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