Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky OBE is an English newsreader, TV presenter and journalist. She is perhaps most famous for being the first ever winner of the first series of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2004. She has hosted a series of light entertainment and factual programmes in her career, notably Children in Need and Born to Shine. In 2014 the then PM David Cameron asked Kaplinksy to become a Holocaust Commissioner leading a project to interview 112 survivors.
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Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky OBE is an English newsreader, TV presenter and journalist. She is perhaps most famous for being the first ever winner of the first series of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2004. She has hosted a series of light entertainment and factual programmes in her career, notably Children in Need and Born to Shine. She was the subject of the most highly rated Who Do You Think You Are?, in which well-known people trace their family trees. In 2014 the then PM David Cameron asked Kaplinksy to become a Holocaust Commissioner leading a project to interview 112 survivors. In 2017 she was awarded an OBE for her services to the Holocaust Commission. Kaplinski was born in Brighton, but spent her early life in Kenya, where she stated that she was fluent in Swahili. She attended Ringmer Community College, until the age of 16 when she moved to Varndean College in Brighton.
After graduating with a degree in English from Hertford College, Oxford in 1995, one of her first jobs was working in the press offices of Labour leaders Neil Kinnock and John Smith. She then moved to Granada Talk TV in 1996 with co-host Sacha Baron Cohen, presenting early morning news bulletins at Meridian. In 1999 she joined ITV’s London News Network where she hosted London Today and London Tonight. In November 2000, she initially co-presented breakfast news programme Sunrise; she later moved to early evening bulletin Live at Five, which she presented alongside Jeremy Thompson. In 2006, she became only the third woman to present the BBC’s Ten O’Clock News. In 2010, she spent her most of her three years at Channel 5 on maternity leave. On 29 October 2013, she hosted the documentary On the Run, a documentary about The Queen’s Birthday List.
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