Four by four feet: Natasha Kaplinsky on her Sussex farm with her Land Rover Defender and dogs“Growing up in the countryside with the nearest shop a 30-minute walk away, I was desperate to get a car,” says the newsreader and television presenter Natasha Kaplinsky. “Rather than take my parents’ advice and get something really safe, I plumped for an old Morris Minor with red leather seats. There’s something very special about driving an old car like that, though it was clearly the wrong motor for a first-time driver,” admits Kaplinsky, 47, who won the first series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2004. “But I was very strong-willed.”It took an accident when she was 18 for her to reconsider: she skidded on black ice, crashed and broke a rib. “It was the most terrible shock — but it could have been

Source: The Times March 21, 2020 23:52 UTC