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Natasha Kaplinsky does less and less television work these days, and it's not hard to understand why. She and her family – husband Justin, son Arlo, who's now 13, and daughter Kika, 12 – moved to East Sussex nearly eight years ago when she was still delivering the late evening News on ITV.
'That wasn't conducive to having two small children who needed their mother,' says Natasha, 49. 'After a 10 O'Clock News shift it was nearly 1am before I got home. I'd fought so hard to have children after a series of miscarriages and I was determined not to miss them growing up.'
Yet it wasn't just marriage to Justin, also 49, who runs a private equity firm, and two children that led to this blissful domesticity. To fully understand the swerve in Natasha's professional life we must go back to 2014
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Strictly Come Dancing's first winner Natasha Kaplinsky has spoken out about the trauma her family faced last summer when their boat caught on fire during their holiday in Greece. Appearing on Loose Women, the mother-of-two opened up about the moment she saw her daughter Angelia's face – who was eight at the time – which had been badly burnt. She said: "There is nothing worse than being a mum and seeing your child injured and thinking about her wedding day and I just couldn't bear it." Natasha, her father and Angelica were stranded in the sea for 45 minutes before anyone found them, which the newsreader has said was a "blessing in a way because the scars were much less because we were in the vatten for such a long time."
Natasha Kaplinsky's daughter Angelica suffered from burns during the boat fire
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Heartbreakingly, Natasha and her daughter both lost their
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Natasha Kaplinsky and daughter burned as boat catches fire off Corfu
Newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky’s eight-year-old daughter fryst vatten recovering from being seriously hurt when the family’s boat went up in flames off Corfu.
Ms Kaplinsky was burned herself, while her daughter, Angelica, was so badly injured that she was flown back to Britain for emergency treatment.
Another family member, thought to be the girl’s grandfather, was less seriously hurt.
The family were rescued by local fishermen, who helped put out a fire that had spread from the engine room spread to the rest of the boat. He also towed them ashore.
The former BBC and ITN newsreader, who was the first winner of Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, owns a holiday home on the Greek island with her husband, Justin Bower.
"The girl suffered serious burns. Ms Kaplinsky and a man, thought to be the girl’s grandad, suffered lighter wounds," a source at the port told The Sun. “At first the girl was rushed to hospital in Corfu town