David Tennant 's wife Georgia has taken to Instagram with a very sweet snapshot of her family. 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. They married on 30 December 2011,[126] and live in the Chiswick district of London. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. 06:05 EST 24 Dec 2020 David Tennant returned to Doctor Who last night as the 14th Doctor after a 12-year hiatus and the Good Omens star . [83] He also voiced the Propaganda Minister in the 2015 Square Enix video game Just Cause 3. David Tennant's Doctor Who Return Explained: Everything We Know When asked by Collider if there's ever been a television show he's watched and wished he was a part of, Tennant copped to being a huge fan . A show source explained: "There have been two David Tennant Doctor Whos technically and with John Hurt playing another Doctor in the film, it basically means he can't regenerate again . British Model, Fashion Muse Stella Tennant Dies at 50 - VOA On Wednesday, Tennant's family confirmed she died by suicide in a statement shared with The Telegraph. The first series was filmed in Clevedon, North Somerset, and Bridport, Dorset, between August and November 2012, and aired in March 2013. [65] On 9 June 2012, he started filming the 3-part political drama series The Politician's Husband for BBC Two, playing an ambitious cabinet minister who takes drastic action when his wife's career starts to outshine his. Hoggart's son, Simon, praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper. Another said: "9 year old me who sobbed for a week once David Tennant regenerated is throwing a . September 10, 1933. . [23], Doctor Who returned to British screens in March 2005, with Christopher Eccleston playing the role of the Ninth Doctor in the first series. Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse . [63] Between April and June, he filmed Spies of Warsaw for BBC Four, in the lead role of Jean-Franois Mercier. Supermodel Stella Tennant 's family has confirmed her cause of death. In August, it emerged that Stella had quietly separated from her husband some 21 years. [30] He continued to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme's fourth series in 2008. Early life. [4] He later said that he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing an acting career. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010. The End of Time was the two-part story that served as the 2009 Christmas Special and 2010 New Year Special of Doctor Who. [52] From August to November 2008 he appeared at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as Hamlet, playing that role in repertory with Berowne that October and November. Stella Tennant (17 December 1970 22 December 2020) was a British model and fashion designer,[2] who rose to fame in the early 1990s and had a career that spanned almost 30 years. He played the title role in Big Finish's adaptation of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2005). McLeod was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull. 'Doctor Who' fans delighted as the Doctor regenerates as David Tennant Catwalk icon's career in pictures. David Lasnet spoke candidly about marriage to Stella Tennant [26] Writer Russell T Davies made the decision not to use Tennant's own Scottish accent for the character as he did not want the Doctor's accent "touring the regions", using Estuary English instead. In December 2008, he was named as one of the most influential people in show business by British theatre and entertainment magazine The Stage, making him the fifth actor to achieve a ranking in the top 20 (in a list typically dominated by producers and directors). British supermodel Stella Tennant took her own life last month, her family has confirmed, saying the pioneering 90s star "felt unable to go on." Tennant, who shunned traditionally feminine . 'There's nothing better than growing old together. [citation needed], Tennant featured in an episode of Trick or Treat on Channel 4 in May 2008. The podcast's episodes feature Olivia Colman, Whoopi Goldberg, Jodie Whittaker, Ian McKellen, Jon Hamm, Gordon Brown, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Tate, Krysten Ritter, James Corden, Samantha Bee, Tina Fey, and Michael Sheen. Tennant had been formally offered the role of the Doctor during rehearsals for The Quatermass Experiment. [18], Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998). [77] Tennant starred opposite Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly in What We Did on Our Holiday, a semi-improvised comedy film; shooting took place from 17 June to 30 July 2013 in Scotland. [22] She continued to sculpt, and with her sister, a gilder, operated a luxury homewares company, Tennant & Tennant. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. Although the circumstances of her death are unknown, it was claimed that the model was concerned about the impact of Covid on the fashion industry and had concerns she would not work again. Stella Tennant death: Fashion insiders pay tribute - Page Six He was an avid "Doctor Who" fan, and even met 4th . Tennant was awarded his first major TV role as Campbell Bain in the BBC Scotland drama series Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), after impressing director David Blair during filming of another drama Strathblair (1992). News of her death was confirmed only months after their split and just five days after her 50th birthday. From October 2009, he hosted the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service. He watched almost every Doctor Who episode for years and once spoke to Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker at a book-signing event in Glasgow. 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. The cast also included Charlotte Randle (Dawn), with Dominic Rowan (Bill), and Gary McDonald (William), and was again directed by Mark Brokaw. Neighbours were shocked at the news saying that, since the separation, David had seemingly moved to Edinburgh, where the couple had a mews house, and continued working as an osteopath while Stella had taken up riding. [124], Tennant is married to English actress Georgia Moffett, making him the son-in-law of actress Sandra Dickinson and Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison. 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[62], In April 2012, Tennant played lead in a one-off drama The Minor Character for Sky Arts. Lagerfeld had shrewdly seen in her a resemblance to the young Coco Chanel, who wore actual mens clothes for sports and larks, underplaying her femininity. Tennant replaced him as of the second series, making his first, brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode "The Parting of the Ways" (2005) at the end of the regeneration scene, and also appeared in a special 7-minute mini-episode shown as part of the 2005 Children in Need appeal, broadcast on 18 November 2005. He also starred as the Doctor in another animated six-part Doctor Who series, Dreamland. Much Ado About Nothing (Production) by William Shakespeare . . Model Stella Tennant Dies Suddenly at Age 50 - Peoplemag I've even got my own TARDIS!" 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. [116], Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research. [40] Later that same year he starred in Learners, a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes (another Doctor Who costar, in the episodes "Human Nature", "The Family of Blood" and "The End of Time"), in which he played a Christian driving instructor who became the object of a student's affection. Unusually for a fashion star, Tennant stayed faithful to her home territory. Stella Tennant, iconic '90s supermodel, dead days after 50th birthday - AOL Tennant had a cameo appearance as the Doctor in the 2007 finale episode of the BBC/HBO comedy series Extras with Ricky Gervais. He made his directorial debut on the Doctor Who Confidential episode that accompanies Steven Moffat's episode "Blink", entitled "Do You Remember The First Time? [20] During the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, Tennant, along with Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, was one of the British models wearing fashions created by British designers specifically for the event. Stella Tennant obituary | Fashion | The Guardian David Fisher/Shutterstock. Fashion house Versace paid tribute to Tennant on Twitter, saying: "Versace is mourning the death of Stella Tennant. 'Her family ask for their privacy to be respected. Stella Tennant, model and designer, born 17 December 1970; died 22 December 2020. 'The first six months were very dampened by our capacity to communicate with each other,' he said previously. Karl Lagerfeld named Tennant the face of Chanel in 1996, and she was cited by several designers as their . Secret Smile might just be one of David Tennant's most underappreciated projects to date. Stella's mother was Lady Emma Cavendish, daughter of Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, whose seat is the famous Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. [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. How did Stella Tennant die? - Quora In November 2008, Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the BBC and HBO biographical film Einstein and Eddington, which was filmed in Cambridge and Hungary. [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. It was good, and it was smart, and it played perfectly with the boundaries of the format it was in. She found she had style, and just what that style was, wandering the hills in unsuitable footwear and smoking rebel cigarettes round the back of fathers barn. [84][85] In autumn 2015, Tennant's name was announced for Scottish feature film I Feel Fine, a thriller set in Glasgow in the 1980s. Ty Tennant - Wikipedia The pair met when Mario Testino hired him as an assistant after he was talent spotted by the iconic fashion designer while drinking coffee outside a Paris cafe. By Tennant, 50, was found dead on December 22. He was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero. In 2015, he received the National Television Award for Special Recognition. 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. The Pirates! 'I'm not really pursuing my modelling in the same way. "Stella really lifted me out of it without knowing. But Tennant at Chanel gave up grunge other than her Sam McKnight spiked coiffure. The three stories were released in May 2016.[33]. [16][17] She also modelled frequently for other influential fashion photographers of the 1990s, including Mario Testino, David Sims and Mark Borthwick. [27] She also supported initiatives aimed at reducing fashion's effect on the environment,[17] including Oxfam's "Second Hand September". On 9 February 2015, Tennant appeared on the Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute, becoming the show's most successful debut contestant. [34] Tennant also returned to the role on 13 July 2018, as part of the live Muppets show The Muppets Take the O2 in London (in which the Tenth Doctor appeared onstage as part of a live Pigs in Space sketch). Death More from News. Stella Tennant and David Lasnet married at a parish church in the Scottish Borders in 1999 Credit: PA . 'Stella taught me English'. [111] Tennant's popularity has led to impersonations of him on various social networking sites, leading the BBC to issue a statement making it clear that Tennant does not use any of these sites and any account or message purporting to be from him is fake. [80] He is the narrator on Xbox One video game Kinect Sports Rivals, released in 2014. We will miss you forever Stella. . The play was written by Andrew Davies and directed by Doctor Who's James Hawes for the digital television channel BBC Four. [3] She worked for haute couture names like Valentino, and Dior by John Galliano and with photographers Steven Meisel, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, and Tim Walker. Stella Tennant: Family confirm supermodel's sudden death was suicide The family of late British supermodel Stella Tennant make a statement [78], In 2012 he appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media, starring in three adverts. The husband of Stella Tennant spoke candidly about their marriage years before her death saying the secret to their 20 year marriage was: 'We want to make it work'. 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Topics. Stella Tennant modelling in Paris in 2003. December 23, 2020. Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers including Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace, has died suddenly at the age of 50, her family said Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Remembering Stella Tennant, the chameleon-like supermodel who Stella Tennant took her own life, family says - The Guardian [133][134] At the age of two, Olive had a cameo as John Barrowman's daughter in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. The Transformation Of David Tennant From Childhood To Doctor Who 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. Five Intriguing Facts About David Tennant - Masterpiece TALK OF THE TOWN: Sacre bleu! Stella Tennant splits from gallic beau Related profiles. [48] He returned to cohost the show for one day in October 2010. [81], Tennant also portrayed the villainous Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, a television series from Marvel and Netflix. The Scot made her name in the mid 1990s on catwalks for planners like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. This does mean viewers should be wary of assuming Tennant is playing the same Tenth Doctor character. She announced her first retirement from modelling before she was 30, when she married (dressed by favourite designer Helmut Lang) in the local kirk with no celebs invited. . [137] In 2019, they had another daughter named Birdie. They were then the money generator, though Tennant worked without demanding supermodel premiums just to get out of bed. Karl Lagerfeld. 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. [45] The pilot was not picked up and the project was shelved. Tennant has worked extensively on stage, including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet that was later adapted for television. What was David Tennant last episode of Doctor Who called? His first such role was in the Seventh Doctor audio Colditz, where he played a Nazi lieutenant guard at Colditz Castle. Tennant was married to photographer David Lasnet for . Stella Tennant: Model dies days after 50th birthday - BBC News [24], Tennant died on 22 December 2020, aged 50,[17][25] in Duns, Scottish Borders, Scotland. [59] In October 2011, Tennant started shooting the semi-improvised comedy film, Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger in Coventry. All about Stella Tennant. (Her farmer father offered to lead her round his bull pen.). Who was Stella Tennant married to? Model was struggling - MEAWW During the Christmas season of 2002, he starred in a series of television advertisements for Boots the Chemists. [107][108], Tennant was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. Stella Tennant stepping down the aisle with French born David Lasnet in the small parish church of Oxnam / PA In 1993, aged 23, Mrs Tennant broke into modelling, posing for magazines such as . Who is Stella Tennant's husband David Lasnet? | The Sun [79] One advert was voluntarily withdrawn after a complaint lodged by BBC Worldwide, which believed that the advert broke the corporation's guidelines by featuring references to Doctor Who that appeared to be a commercial endorsement of the service. [14] In August 2020, Tennant and Lasnet announced they had separated. David Tennant's Time Lord also used up an extra regeneration to save himself in an episode called Journey's End. 15 Surprising Facts About David Tennant | Mental Floss David loves surfing and skate boarding in his leisure time. [11] Priya Elan, writing in her Guardian obituary, credits her, together with Kate Moss and Erin O'Connor, with having "introduced an era of androgyny on the catwalk". [11] In 2010, she starred in L.K.Bennett's Spring Summer campaign photographed by Tim Walker. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. 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. [103][104][105][106], In December 2022, Tennant starred as Alexander Litvinenko in the ITV1 dramatisation Litvinenko. Stella Tennant, British supermodel and fashion nonconformist, has died Tennant attended Arts Educational Schools (ArtsEd) for . [14][15] He is reported to have thought her reminiscent of Coco Chanel. 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. . [131][132] Ty has acted in the film Tolkien and the 2019 television adaptation of War of the Worlds. [5][6] Two of his maternal great-grandparents, William and Agnes Blair, were Northern Irish Protestants from County Londonderry who were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912; William was also a member of the Orange Order. Tennant, who maintained her fashionable edge throughout her lengthy career in the industry, died by suicide on December 22, 2020, at the age of 50. Tobias Tennant, son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner, and his wife, Lady Emma Cavendish. [90], Tennant played psychopathic villain Cale Erendreich in the thriller film Bad Samaritan (2018), written by Brandon Boyce and directed by Dean Devlin. The film was released in September 2014. (Lasnet later retrained as an osteopath.) Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 11 November 2007. He remarked in a radio interview: "Who wouldn't want to be the Doctor? [109], In 2008, Tennant was voted "Greenest Star on the Planet" in an online vote held by Playhouse Disney as part of the Playing for the Planet Awards. David John Tennant (n McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. Born David John McDonald in 1971, David Tennant had always wanted to be an actor. She was a muse of the designers Karl Lagerfeld,[18] Gianni Versace,[17][19] Alexander McQueen, Nicolas Ghesquire, Riccardo Tisci and Victoria Beckham. The 35-year-old actress posted a picture showing all . He joined Franz Ferdinand onstage to play the guitar on their song "No You Girls" on a special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops. Jessica Jones for Netflix", "David Tennant sets Radio 4 Just a Minute record", "Did you know David Tennant was in Just Cause 3? [37] The three 60th anniversary special episodes will air in November 2023. [11][21], In 2016, Tennant and Lady Isabella Cawdor premiered a new ready to wear collection they designed for the gunmaker and clothing retailer Holland & Holland. He was hired as a set assistant after declining the designer's offer to model for him, instead asking for a job behind the camera. 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. She was raised on a sheep farm on the Scottish Borders. And it's very easy to destroy something. British supermodel Stella Tennant dies suddenly at 50 [12][13] He later legally changed his surname to comply with rules set by the American Screen Actors Guild (which was later merged into SAG-AFTRA). The film is co-produced by Tennant's wife, Georgia, and had originally been due to co-star his father-in-law, Peter Davison; however, Davison withdrew from the film in October 2016 due to a scheduling clash. They had been married for over two decades and were in the process of splitting. Stella Tennant, Aristocratic British Model, Is Dead at 50 [16] During filming of Takin' Over the Asylum he met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. The gorgeous young lady, Cecily Lasnet was born to David Lasnet and Stella Tennant. [16] She also appeared in numerous other advertising campaigns, including Calvin Klein, Herms, and in 2002 in an influential campaign for Burberry. The Untold Story of Cecily Lasnet - Stella Lasnet Daughter Biography Model Stella Tennant walks the runway during the Versace show as part of Paris Fashion Week - Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2014-2015 on 6 July 2014 in Paris, Getty Images Model Stella Tennant attends . Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. 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 . On Wednesday, Tennant's family confirmed she died by suicide in a statement shared with The Telegraph. British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of 50, her family have said. [29] Tennant guest starred as the Doctor in a two-part story in Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, broadcast in October 2009. [113], In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. A show source explained: "There have been two David Tennant Doctor Whos technically and with John Hurt playing another Doctor in the film, it basically means he can't regenerate again . (Though they never went as far as her thermal layer; she always wore a warm vest beneath those sweaters and shirts from Paris or Milan.)