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Tennant also lent his voice to adverts for Tesco Mobile, Nintendo Wii, and American Express. [99] For his performance, he won the International Emmy Award for Best Actor. [113], In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. [38], While playing the Doctor, Tennant was also in the early December 2005 ITV drama Secret Smile. The drama was based on the 10-year fight of Marina Litvinenko and the London police force as they work to prove the guilt and release the names of those responsible for the 2006 poisoning of Litvinenko. Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. The model married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999, after meeting him on a shoot. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. "Ask Me Anything!" the title of the post read. She was a second cousin of artist Daphne Guinness, through their great-grandparents, Sydney and David . Tennant called in former Vogue stylist Isabella Cawdor as partner, and over the course of five years they created a range: their criterion was, whatever the garment, You have to be able to climb over a barbed-wire fence in it.. NHS risks being overwhelmed by cancer as cases set . Karl Lagerfeld named Tennant the face of Chanel in 1996, and she was cited by several designers as their . They lived briefly in Manhattan before returning to Scotland, where they had a mews house in Edinburgh and a home in Edrom, Berwickshire, with a vegetable garden and chickens. David Tennant is dying to work with Aaron Sorkin. On 13 March 2009, he presented Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall. Couple David and Stella were blessed with four children. [102] The series premiered on 26 September 2022 to mixed reviews from viewers and critics alike. [59] In October 2011, Tennant started shooting the semi-improvised comedy film, Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger in Coventry. By Max Goldbart. [16] During filming of Takin' Over the Asylum he met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. Stella met David while at the height of her fame, when he was a dashing French photographer assigned to a New York shoot with her. The first series was filmed in Clevedon, North Somerset, and Bridport, Dorset, between August and November 2012, and aired in March 2013. Tennant did not intend to keep modelling after the birth of their children, Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine and Iris, but it proved unexpectedly easy to take limited-length gigs, and she remained in demand for the rest of her life for ads, magazine work, regular catwalks, and an appearance in the 2012 Olympics ceremony as a distinctive British asset: I havent found a better part-time job., In 2015, the London gunmakers Holland & Holland, now owned by the Chanel group, asked Tennant to help design their country gear: her own off-duty uniform, from solid wet heather proof shoes through to shepherds plaid wrap, was their ideal. . [25], Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. The three stories were released in May 2016.[33]. [49] On 7 March 2010, he also appeared as George in a one-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Of Mice and Men in the Classic Serial strand. Antonia Paget For Mailonline For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010. It . When David Tennant was cast as the Doctor in 2005, one of the biggest creative decisions regarding his incarnation involved what accent he would use. 'Stella taught me English'. But Tennant at Chanel gave up grunge other than her Sam McKnight spiked coiffure. But it took a while for them to get together as a couple due to the language barriers between French-born Lasnet and aristocratic Brit Tennant. [7] Her family announced the following month that she had died by suicide after being unwell for a prolonged period of time.[8]. Also in 2008, he voiced the character of Hamish the Hunter in the 2008 English language DVD re-release of the 2006 animated Norwegian film, Free Jimmy, alongside Woody Harrelson. [125] The couple met in 2008 during the filming of the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter", in which she played the genetically engineered daughter of Tennant's Tenth Doctor. Secret Smile might just be one of David Tennant's most underappreciated projects to date. Anna Wintour is mourning the loss of fashion industry icon Stella Tennant. Stella Tennant - a life in pictures The model married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999, after meeting him on a shoot. (2011), Ferdinand (2017), Final Space (20182021), gen:LOCK (2019present), the How to Train Your Dragon films (20102019), and as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales (20172021). He's a real screamer!". He was voted the third best dressed man in Britain in GQ reader's poll for 2013. [127][128] They have five children,[129][130] including actor Ty Tennant, Moffett's child from a previous relationship whom Tennant adopted. David Tennant 's wife Georgia has taken to Instagram with a very sweet snapshot of her family. It was good, and it was smart, and it played perfectly with the boundaries of the format it was in. [69] It was announced on 23 January 2013 that Tennant would return to the RSC for the company's 2013 winter season, playing the title role in Richard II at Stratford-upon-Avon (from 10 October to 16 November) and transferring to the Barbican Centre in London (from 9 December to 25 January 2014). Later that same year, he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Stella Tennant, model and designer, born 17 December 1970; died 22 December 2020, Model who rose to fame in the 1990s, capturing the attention of Karl Lagerfeld and gracing the pages of Vogue, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. He was an avid "Doctor Who" fan, and even met 4th . In summer 2009, Tennant filmed St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. The play was written by Andrew Davies and directed by Doctor Who's James Hawes for the digital television channel BBC Four. His first full-length outing as the Doctor was a 60-minute special, "The Christmas Invasion", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005. Mark Gatiss, Trevor Hampton, David Tennant, Alison Willett (2005). She joked that "we're like George and Mildred in 20 years' time we'll probably be doing a ropey old sitcom in a terraced house in Preston". The couple then moved to an 18th-century house on the Scottish borders, where - between modelling jobs - Tennant grew her own vegetables and raised four children, Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine and Iris, now in their teens and . It was the final chronological appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and introduced Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor in the closing moments of part two. Mrs Tennant was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire and Deborah Mitford, one of the well-known aristocratic siblings, who died in 2014. The couple's daughter Olive was born in 2011. In January 2006, he took a one-day break from shooting Doctor Who to play Richard Hoggart in a dramatisation of the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial, The Chatterley Affair. The couple's move across the Atlantic inspired Lasnet to retrain and he studied to be an osteopath - a profession choice he recalls was sparked by his son Marcel developingwhooping cough as a toddler. Another said: "9 year old me who sobbed for a week once David Tennant regenerated is throwing a . The Scot made her name in the early 1990s on catwalks for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers . When he moved to London shortly afterwards, he lodged with Weir for five years[10] and became godfather to her youngest child. Although the casting was not officially announced until later in April,[24] both castmates and crew became aware of the speculation surrounding Tennant; in the live broadcast Jason Flemyng (Quatermass) changed his first line to Tennant's Dr. Briscoe from "Good to have you back, Gordon" to "Good to have you back, Doctor" as a deliberate reference. [91] Tennant also plays Crowley in the miniseries Good Omens,[92] which was released in full on Amazon Prime Video on 31 May 2019 and was released on BBC Two on 15 January 2020. Her first shoot made the cover of British Vogue in December 1993, which Mrs Tennant later said came about 'by accident', and at the end of that day's work she was asked to do a Versace campaign in Paris, which ended up as the cover of the Italian edition. LONDON - Stella Tennant, one of Britain's top models, has died at the age of 50, British media reported on Wednesday. [41] Tennant was the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" on Top Gear in December 2007, where he claimed to have unsuccessfully auditioned for a role on Taggart 26 times. In television, he appeared in the first episode of Reeves and Mortimer's revamped Randall and Hopkirk in 2000, playing an eccentric artist. Stella's father, Tobias William Tennant, meanwhile, was the son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner, and younger brother of Colin Tennant, the 3rd Baron Glenconner, who bought the Caribbean island of . [6], Raised on a 1,500-acre (6km2) sheep farm that her parents ran at Newcastleton, in the Scottish Borders,[7] Tennant went to the local primary then attended St Leonards School in St Andrews[9] followed by Marlborough College[11] before completing a degree in sculpture at the Winchester School of Art. Georgia Moffett later became David Tennant's wife. Doctor Who BBC Studios screen grab. Unusually for a fashion star, Tennant stayed faithful to her home territory. Photo: David Fisher/Shutterstock. The episode showed Tennant apparently predicting future events correctly by using automatic writing. Tennant appeared in the 2008 episode "Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm" of the radio series Nebulous (a parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent. [22] She continued to sculpt, and with her sister, a gilder, operated a luxury homewares company, Tennant & Tennant. At the time, Tennant herself was a graduate in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, who, realising she did not have enough to say to become an artist, had tried and failed to monetise her near 6ft height and remarkable bones in modelling. Read more. Tennant hoped for six months profitable work she was candid about being in modelling for the money, earned by her attitudinous slouch, unseductive catwalk locomotion, free-ranging elbows and a resting face not meant to ingratiate. Topics. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. So, David went from a McDonald to a Tennant, taking the inspiration for the name from Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, and eventually made the name change official in the 2000s. [78], In 2012 he appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media, starring in three adverts. This drama series shot in Poland is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel The Spies of Warsaw. Joel Golby of the Guardian described it: "David Tennant and Michael Sheen squabbled over Zoom as exaggerated, frustrated, hyper-thespian versions of themselves, in an actors-playing-actors miniseries with the exact same energy of a late-night Comic Relief sketch; 15-minute episodes where you got to see familiar actors with their off-duty haircuts saying words that seemed real.