Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972) is an English newsreader, currently employed by Five.
Kaplinsky started out presenting on F2F, a youth chat show, for LWT's Talk TV in the late nineties with co-host Sacha Baron Cohen. She then moved to presenting early morning news bulletins at Meridian. Within six months she was co-presenting their evening news programme Meridian Tonight. She later moved to ITV's London News Network where she hosted London Today and London Tonight and a political programme called Seven Days.
In November 2000, she moved to Sky News, where she co-presented Live at Five with Jeremy Thompson, as well as the breakfast news programme Sunrise.
BBC News
Kaplinsky joined the BBC to present BBC Breakfast in November 2002, from Monday to Thursday alongside Dermot Murnaghan, following the departure of Sophie Raworth to present the BBC News at Six. Kaplinsky eventually left Breakfast in May 2005, to become an occasional presenter on the News at Six. Kaplinsky also acted as main weekday presenter on the News at Six, when Sophie Raworth was on maternity leave in October 2005. She was replaced as the main Weekday presenter on Breakfast by Sian Williams.
In 2006, Kaplinsky became only the third woman to present the BBC's BBC Ten O'Clock News, after Fiona Bruce (regular presenter) and Sian Williams who had co-presented the programme from the studio in Westminster with Huw Edwards in April 2005. She continued to present on the programme occasionally in 2007, and was also been on the BBC One O'Clock News.
From mid-2007, Kaplinsky took part in a trial on BBC One in Birmingham, where she presented a special news update at 8 pm, between 60-90 seconds long.[7]
On 5 October 2007 the BBC confirmed that Kaplinsky had decided to depart the BBC to become a presenter of Five News. She presented her last Six O'Clock News on 5 October with former Breakfast colleague Dermot Murnaghan.[8] Her BBC salary was a reported £175,000 and her salary at Five was reported to be "in excess of" £300,000.[9] This is believed to make her the highest earning newsreader in Britain.
Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky
On 18 February 2008 Natasha presented her first broadcast for Five. The first bulletin was reported to have been watched by a million viewers. Bulletins are at 17:00 and 19:00 on Five, which Natasha presents Monday to Thursday. On Fridays, one of her colleagues, either Helen Fospero or Matt Barbet will stand in for her.
Natasha began her maternity leave following the 19:00 bulletin on 21 August 2008. Isla Traquair and Matt Barbet stood in for her until Monday 16 February 2009 when Natasha returned to Five News.
Although "Live from Studio Five" is to start on Five which will replace Five News at 7, Natasha will still continue to present Five News at 5pm on FIVE.
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