Natasha Kaplinsky (in-universe)
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Natasha Kaplinsky was a BBC News newsreader in the late 20th century and early 21st century. She was also a BBC Breakfast presenter.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
On New Year's Eve 1999, she presented television coverage of the ceremony, talking of how other countries had welcomed in the new year, as well as of celebrations in Cardiff. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"])
In 2005, she was a co-presenter of BBC Breakfast. Alongside another presenter, she presented the programme on 5 March, when the Ninth Doctor visited Rose Tyler’s flat. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])
At some point in the 2000s, she was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, and would win the show's final. (TV: Ghost Machine [+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"], PROSE: Torchwood: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Torchwood: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"])
During the 2000s, she reported on the Wardleswick Incident for BBC News. (COMIC: The Warkeeper's Crown [+]Loading...["The Warkeeper's Crown (comic story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the real world, Natasha Kaplinsky was employed by Sky News in 1999.
Kaplinsky is not referenced by name in Ghost Machine [+]Loading...["Ghost Machine (TV story)"], instead only being referred to as "that newsreader". Torchwood: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Torchwood: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"] later revealed that it was Kaplinsky being referred to. In the real world, she was the winner of Strictly Come Dancing in 2004.
Although the newsreader is unnamed in The Warkeeper's Crown, she is intended to be Kaplinsky. At the time of the comic story's release in 2007, Kaplinsky was the full-time presenter of the BBC's Six O'Clock News.
Technically, Kaplinsky's first appearance in the DWU was in the Doctor Who television story Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], where she and Simon McCoy can be briefly seen on the television in Rose Tyler's flat. This was reused archive footage of an edition of BBC Breakfast, likely from August 2004, and she was never identified by name in the episode.
