| rdfs:comment | - Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972) is a British newsreader and television presenter, best known for her presenting roles with the BBC, Channel 5, Sky News and ITV. Kaplinsky joined the BBC to present the Breakfast programme from 2002-2005. She remained with the BBC, occasionally presenting their News at Six. In October 2005, the BBC announced that Kaplinsky was to leave the channel. She then joined Channel 5 and presented their news for two years, before joining ITV to present the celebrity talent show Born to Shine and the ITV News as an occasional presenter.
- Kaplinsky's parents are Raphael Kaplinsky, an exiled Jewish South African economics professor at the Open University, and his wife Catherine Kaplinsky née Charlewood, apsychotherapist. Her paternal grandparents originated from Slonim (then in Poland, now in Belarus), and emigrated 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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| abstract | - Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972) is a British newsreader and television presenter, best known for her presenting roles with the BBC, Channel 5, Sky News and ITV. Kaplinsky joined the BBC to present the Breakfast programme from 2002-2005. She remained with the BBC, occasionally presenting their News at Six. In October 2005, the BBC announced that Kaplinsky was to leave the channel. She then joined Channel 5 and presented their news for two years, before joining ITV to present the celebrity talent show Born to Shine and the ITV News as an occasional presenter. She won the first series of the BBC talent show Strictly Come Dancing in 2004.
- Kaplinsky's parents are Raphael Kaplinsky, an exiled Jewish South African economics professor at the Open University, and his wife Catherine Kaplinsky née Charlewood, apsychotherapist. Her paternal grandparents originated from Slonim (then in Poland, now in Belarus), and emigrated 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. After graduating 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. Kaplinsky was the subject of one of a series of BBC television programmes, Who Do You Think You Are?, in which well-known people trace their family trees. Kaplinsky's programme was broadcast on 6 September 2007. She followed her paternal line to Slonim and was shown official documentation relating to her cousin's family. This included the death of family members during the "liquidation" – massacre – of the Slonim ghetto by the Nazis and another's escape to the partisans and eventual emigration to Australia. Her maternal line included an apothecary to King George III.
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