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Natasha Kaplinsky is a television presenter who in 2005 was awarded Newscaster of the Year. BBC Breakfast, which she co-hosted, won best daytime programme at the Television and Radio Industries Club Awards. Along with with Dermot Murnaghan she was also co-presenter of BBC Breakfast which had more than seven million viewers each week.
Previously, Natasha co-presented Live At Five with Jeremy Thompson on Sky News. Natasha spent her early years in Kenya. Her father, Raphael a respected Sussex University economics professor, was thrown out of South Africa for his anti-apartheid views and originally came to Britain as a refugee. He saw his dreams for South Africa come true and Natasha says “In a way it inspired me to believe anything is possible”.
Natasha was brought up in Barcombe in Sussex where she went to a comprehensive school. In her gap-year she worked as former Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s assistant. She then went on to study English at Oxford University.
She started her journalistic career at Meridian TV in 1997. Natasha then went on to be a presenter on London Tonight alongside Alastair Stewart. This was on the lunchtime show, London Today and also the Sunday current affairs programme Seven Days.
Natasha Kaplinsky and Brendan Cole were declared champions on the first series of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing in 2004. Strictly Come Dancing returned for a second series later that year. This time Natasha hosted the series along with Bruce Forsyth.
Holocaust work:
2017 saw Natasha Kaplinsky television presenter being awarded an OBE for her work on services to Holocaust Commemoration. Natasha embarked on the mammoth task of recording testimonies of Britain’s last living Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators. In 2016 she interviewed over 100 people to ensure the memory and the lessons of the Holocaust are never forgotten.
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