Natasha Kaplinsky
| Natasha Kaplinsky | |
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Kaplinsky in May 2014
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| Born |
Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky 9 September 1972 Brighton, East Sussex, England |
| Residence | Sheffield Park, East Sussex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
Ringmer Community College Varndean College Hertford College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Newsreader, television presenter |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Employer |
ITN (2011—) Five News (2008–10) BBC (2002–07) |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) |
| Spouse(s) | Justin Bower (m. 2005) |
| Children | Arlo Bower (b. 2008) Angelica Pearl Bower (b. 2010) |
Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972) is an English newsreader and television presenter, best known for her roles as a newsreader on Sky News, BBC News, Channel 5 and ITV News where she is the current presenter.
After two years at Sky News, Kaplinsky joined BBC News in 2002 where she co-hosted Breakfast until 2005, when she became one of the hosts of the Six O'Clock News. In October 2007, the BBC announced that Kaplinsky was to leave the corporation to join Five (now known as Channel 5), where she presented a new look, retitled Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky for three years. After leaving Channel 5, she went on to join ITV to present talent show Born to Shine and ITV News as a presenter.
Kaplinsky won the first series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in 2004.
Kaplinsky was born to Raphael Kaplinsky, an exiled Jewish South African professor of international development at the Open University, and his wife, Catherine Kaplinsky (née Charlewood), a psychotherapist.
Kaplinsky's paternal grandparents were Polish Jews who originated from the town of Slonim (then in Poland, now located in Western Belarus), and migrated to South Africa 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 the United Kingdom, 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.
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