Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky OBE is an English newsreader, TV presenter and journalist, best known for her roles as a studio anchor on Sky News, BBC News, Channel 5 and ITV News.
After two years at Sky News, Kaplinsky joined BBC News in 2002 where she co-hosted Breakfast until 2005, when she became the host of the Six O'Clock News. In October 2007, Kaplinsky was recruited to help relaunch Five , reportedly for the highest fee ever paid to a UK newsreader, 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 News as a presenter.
Kaplinsky has hosted a series of light entertainment and factual programmes in her career, notably Children in Need and Born to Shine. She was also the subject of the most highly rated Who Do You Think You Are. She is perhaps most famous for being the first ever winner of the first series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in 2004.
More recently 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. Wikipedia
Her general reaction to learning about the fate of her family.
"Kaplinsky's tears over family secret", interview in Metro, Tue August 28 2007, p. 23
On learning that two relatives, aged 2 and 9, were battered to death by the Nazis.
"Kaplinsky's tears over family secret", interview in Metro, Tue August 28 2007, p. 23
