2009 Awards Ceremony

Natasha KaplinskyWe are pleased to announce that the Presenter for the 2009 CMYA is Natasha Kaplinsky!

Natasha Kaplinsky is one of television's best-loved broadcasters and joined FIVE News in January 2008. Before her role at Five she was at the BBC for five years. She started there in November 2002 co-presenting Breakfast with Dermot Murnaghan in a daily three-hour live show combining news, current affairs and softer items, where she developed a reputation for incisive interviewing with a gentle touch where necessary. She then moved on to co-present the Six O’clock News for two years finishing in October 2007.

In September 2007, Natasha was the subject of one of the programmes in the popular BBC1 television series, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

Alongside her news work, Natasha has also hosted the BBC's NEW YEAR LIVE, co-presented CHILDREN IN NEED with Terry Wogan, and was the winning contestant in the first series of STRICTLY COME DANCING.

Natasha has a son, Arlo, who was born in September 2008.