[31] He played the Doctor in four special episodes in 2009, before his final episode aired on 1 January 2010, where he was replaced by the Eleventh Doctor, portrayed by Matt Smith. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010. He revived this performance for the anniversary of the Royal Court Theatre in a rehearsed reading. Tennant and Billie Piper returned to Doctor Who for the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" broadcast on 23 November 2013, with then-stars Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman and guest star John Hurt. Supermodel Stella Tennant 's family has confirmed her cause of death. She made a video and became one of the faces of its campaign titled Turn Up the Style, Turn Down the Heat. David Lasnet is a French photographer while Stella Tennant was a British model. Couple David and Stella were blessed with four children. Stella Tennant - a life in pictures The model married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999, after meeting him on a shoot. Born in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage. They couple shared lunch after the shoot. The unexpected next big things turned out to be very particularly British: bad-waif Kate Moss, and cool aristo Stella Tennant, who arrived on the pages of British Vogue in 1993. [23], Doctor Who returned to British screens in March 2005, with Christopher Eccleston playing the role of the Ninth Doctor in the first series. She seemed well, but did say she was very worried about [the impact of] Covid [on fashion] because she thought it might mean she never worked again. 13. 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 . Stella Tennant splits . 6 in its "Top Ten" list of the most influential British television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile, and Doctor Who. He also played an unnamed Time Lord in another Doctor Who Unbound play Exile. [81], Tennant also portrayed the villainous Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, a television series from Marvel and Netflix. [8][26], In 2009, Tennant worked with green lifestyle organisation Global Cool to promote using less energy at home. FILE In this May 22, 1999 file photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. [30] He continued to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme's fourth series in 2008. Fashion house Versace paid tribute to Tennant on Twitter, saying: "Versace is mourning the death of Stella Tennant. [121] However, in the wake of Brexit, which he called "depressing", he stated in 2017 that he would support an independent Scotland in the event of a second referendum. Tennants manner was so fresh that she soon had an agent, a flat in New York, and the unofficial record for being in the most catwalk shows, 75, in a season. 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Despite much of his work being television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being". 06:05 EST 24 Dec 2020 [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). This drama series shot in Poland is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel The Spies of Warsaw. 'I'm not really pursuing my modelling in the same way. British model Stella Tennant during Chanel's 1996-97 fall-winter . 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. [113], In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. Supermodel Stella Tennant 's family has confirmed her cause of death. Tennant had a cameo appearance as the Doctor in the 2007 finale episode of the BBC/HBO comedy series Extras with Ricky Gervais. [4] At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she was one of the British supermodels, with models Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, walking the runway in the closing ceremony. Murdaugh is heckled as he leaves court, Ken Bruce finishes his 30-year tenure as host of BBC Radio 2, Ukrainian soldier takes out five tanks with Javelin missiles, Family of a 10-month-old baby filmed vaping open up, Missing hiker buried under snow forces arm out to wave to helicopter, Hershey's Canada releases HER for SHE bars featuring a trans activist, Moment teenager crashes into back of lorry after 100mph police race. Growing up on a farm kept her grounded, she said. [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. 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. DAVID Lasnet is the husband of the late model Stella Tennant. The pair split in August Stella Tennant died this week just weeks after her 50th . He is a dog lover and owns a pet dog named Feud. Anna Wintour is mourning the loss of fashion industry icon Stella Tennant. 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. Biography, news, photos and videos . The BBC has confirmed David Tennant is the Fourteenth Doctor, which makes sense given he has now succeeded Whittaker. [11] The following year, he played a role in an episode of Dramarama. When he was 16, he acted in an anti-smoking film made by the Glasgow Health Board which aired on television and was also screened in schools. He and their children survive her. Model Stella Tennant dies aged 50. David Tennant surprised Doctor Who fans as he reprised his role as the Time Lord - with the actor set to star in three special episodes before handing over control of the Tardis next Christmas. But Tennant at Chanel gave up grunge other than her Sam McKnight spiked coiffure. [28], In August 2014, Tennant was one of 200 celebrities who signed a letter to The Guardian newspaper expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. Tennant was invited to set for a photoshoot with Testino in New York and the pair hit it off. The iconic supermodel rose to runway superstardom in the '90s serving as a muse for brands including Versace, Chanel and Alexander McQueen The 35-year-old actress posted a picture showing all . Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers . Stella Tennant was born in London on Dec. 17, 1970, the youngest of three children of Lady Emma Cavendish and the Honorable Tobias William Tennant, son of the second Baron Glenconner, himself the . They had four children together. In 2005, he starred in UNIT: The Wasting for Big Finish, recreating his role of Brimmicombe-Wood from a Doctor Who Unbound play, Sympathy for the Devil. [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. Much Ado About Nothing (Production) by William Shakespeare . Karl Lagerfeld named Tennant the face of Chanel in 1996, and she was cited by several designers as their . From then on, everything got better.'. December 23, 2020, 9:38 AM. (Her farmer father offered to lead her round his bull pen.). The gorgeous young lady, Cecily Lasnet was born to David Lasnet and Stella Tennant. The photographer, who is now trilingual, said:'I went through a period of depression from the age of 18 to 20-something. She later returned to the runway and worked on several campaigns behind the camera. [114] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted him the "Sexiest Man in the Universe". Meisel and the Vogue team invited her to Paris the next week to model for a Versace campaign (Tennant recalled I thought, well, OK, that sounds fun), and a resulting Meisel shot made the cover of Italian Vogue. [64] Tennant auditioned for the role of Hannibal Lecter in NBC's Hannibal; he was narrowly beaten for the part by Mads Mikkelsen. While Tennant was first . This personal enthusiasm for the series had also been expressed by his participation in several audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series which had been produced by Big Finish Productions, although he did not play the Doctor in any of these productions. He played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. His first full-length outing as the Doctor was a 60-minute special, "The Christmas Invasion", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005. 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. [57], In 2011, he starred in United, about the Manchester United "Busby Babes" team and the 1958 Munich air disaster, playing coach and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy. By
Tennant, who lived in Duns, a town in the Scottish borders, died on 22 December . He won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. Tennant leaves behind four children, Iris, 15, Jasmine, 17, Cecily, 20, and Marcel, 22, who she shared with husband David Lasnet. 'There's nothing better than growing old together. [10] He also starred in the 2003 London production of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. 'The first six months were very dampened by our capacity to communicate with each other,' he said previously. In one of her final interviews, Stella said she was delighted to be growing old gracefully, joking that - at her husband's request - she had even stopped dyeing her greying hair. Then David and I decided we wanted to have a family." She married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999 and had four children. Tennant was summoned to London from a Highlands holiday, travelled by sleeper train, arriving late on location in Spitalfields, and was immediately spotted as the newest face by the-then hottest photographer, Steven Meisel, despite that face being obscured by panda black eyepaint as well as the nose ring.