[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. When asked for the secret to the longevity of their marriage, Lasnet said: 'Well, I think we want to make it work, you know? I had to give up eating,' she recalled. In this May 22, 1999 photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. [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. [48] He returned to cohost the show for one day in October 2010. In 2015, he also lent his voice to a Labour Party General Election broadcast. 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. Stella Tennant - a life in pictures The model married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999, after meeting him on a shoot. Scotland . Between January and May 2014, Tennant also filmed the US remake of Broadchurch, re-titled Gracepoint. When he moved to London shortly afterwards, he lodged with Weir for five years[10] and became godfather to her youngest child. [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. They married on 30 December 2011,[126] and live in the Chiswick district of London. In May 2022, in relation to the show's 60th anniversary, it was announced that Tennant would once again return to the show, alongside Tate, who would reprise her role as Donna Noble. Lasnet recalled that his mental health also contributed to the realtionship getting off to a rocky start. At the time, the cause of death was unknown, but it is believed that Stella and her photographer husband David Lasnet had split. As Tennant recalled from the audition, "they needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers". [19] In 2003 Tennant appeared in the film Bright Young Things. [11] In 2010, she starred in L.K.Bennett's Spring Summer campaign photographed by Tim Walker. [10] Hamlet transferred to the Novello Theatre in London's West End in December 2008, but Tennant suffered a prolapsed disc during previews and was unable to perform from 8 December 2008 until 2 January 2009, during which time the role was played by his understudy Edward Bennett. He follows a non-vegetarian diet. While Tennant was first . The play follows the story of two sisters, Blanche and Stella, and Stella's husband Stanley. [54][55] In 2009, he worked on a TV film version of the RSC's 2008 Hamlet for BBC Two. [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. Later that same year, he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Over the years she appeared in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Herms and Burberry. [78], In 2012 he appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media, starring in three adverts. [46][47] In November 2009, he co-hosted the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show with Christian O'Connell for three consecutive days. His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in . Mark Gatiss, Trevor Hampton, David Tennant, Alison Willett (2005). Another said: "9 year old me who sobbed for a week once David Tennant regenerated is throwing a . 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. [68], In January 2012, Tennant was appointed to the Royal Shakespeare Company board, to be on the selection committee interviewing and choosing the new artistic director. She came from a completely different background and was super-supportive of me always. [13] Soon after, Karl Lagerfeld announced Tennant as the new face of Chanel, with an exclusive contract. [4] He was educated at Ralston Primary School and Paisley Grammar School and acted in various school productions. Lambing and ewes, blood and guts and sex.. Tennant's family, including her husband, David Lasnet, and their four children . In 1995, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. [6], She died suddenly on 22 December 2020 shortly after her 50th birthday. He and their children survive her. [110], Tennant was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media on 9 July 2007, according to MediaGuardian. He made the coments in a candid interview about their marriage nine years before her death. [118] In April 2010, he lent his voice to a Labour election broadcast. [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. Is Stella Tennant related to Colin Tennant? He also received his first credit as an executive producer for the series. Tennant had a cameo appearance as the Doctor in the 2007 finale episode of the BBC/HBO comedy series Extras with Ricky Gervais. In February 2016, he began filming Mad to Be Normal (previously titled Metanoia), a biopic of the renowned Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, produced by Gizmo Films. Stella Tennant with Karl Lagerfeld in 2011. She will be greatly missed. [114] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted him the "Sexiest Man in the Universe". Previous; 1; 2; . [133][134] At the age of two, Olive had a cameo as John Barrowman's daughter in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. She was always Scottish first, born the youngest child of Tobias Tennant of the Glenconner family, which had made its fortune developing bleach for cotton cloth, and Lady Emma Cavendish, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (born Deborah Mitford). 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. Catwalk icon's career in pictures. Schiffer had looked like an Amazon Brigitte Bardot, bosom bursting out of bared bra, and she grumbled about Tennant that being cool now meant heroin chic, looking like a junkie. [45] The pilot was not picked up and the project was shelved. 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 very opposite of a social butterfly, quite unstarry, and all the more popular in the community for it, one of them said yesterday. [90], Tennant played psychopathic villain Cale Erendreich in the thriller film Bad Samaritan (2018), written by Brandon Boyce and directed by Dean Devlin. 'Stella was a wonderful woman and an inspiration to us all. British supermodel Stella Tennant died on December 22 at the age of 50. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III as Galanar, a young man who is given an assignment to discover the secrets of the Daleks. 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. Tennant was invited to set for a photoshoot with Testino in New York and the pair hit it off. [137] In 2019, they had another daughter named Birdie. 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. [16] She also appeared in numerous other advertising campaigns, including Calvin Klein, Herms, and in 2002 in an influential campaign for Burberry. In TV & Satellite Week (26 April 2 May issue), the host of the show, Derren Brown, is quoted as saying: "One of the appeals of Doctor Who for David is time travel, so I wanted to give him that experience. British model Stella Tennant during Chanel's 1996-97 fall-winter . It marked the start of a relationship that would span more than 20 years and give them four children, Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine, and Iris, now aged between 15 and 22. [2][3] He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston,[4] where his father was the local minister. [72], Tennant starred in the ITV detective series Broadchurch as DI Alec Hardy between 2013 and 2017. Following news of the model's death on Wednesday morning, the global editorial director of Vogue and Cond Nast's worldwide chief content officer shared a moving tribute about the late star in a statement to PEOPLE. 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. [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. The three stories were released in May 2016.[33]. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. 'I'm not really pursuing my modelling in the same way. In an Adventure with Scientists! She had had a unique look since childhood chopped her own black hair urchin-tousled, flaunted the punk clothes her older sister forwarded from London and wore a nose ring. [89] Also in 2017, he became the voice of Scrooge McDuck for Disney XD's DuckTales reboot, replacing the character's longtime voice actor Alan Young, who died in May 2016. Tennant, the . Tennant attended Arts Educational Schools (ArtsEd) for . [86] However, as of January2016[update], the film has been postponed indefinitely. [17] He subsequently specialised in comic roles, playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. [53] He returned to his role in the production on 3 January 2009, and appeared until the run ended on 10 January. Hoggart's son, Simon, praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper. "[101], In September 2022, Tennant starred as Reverend Harry Watling in BBC1's Inside Man, which was written by Steven Moffat. [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. The Scot made her name in the early 1990s on catwalks for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers . December 23, 2020, 9:38 AM. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man in the World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey. 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. [64] Tennant auditioned for the role of Hannibal Lecter in NBC's Hannibal; he was narrowly beaten for the part by Mads Mikkelsen. Tennant featured as the Doctor in an animated version of Doctor Who for Totally Doctor Who, The Infinite Quest, which aired on CBBC. [99] For his performance, he won the International Emmy Award for Best Actor. [103][104][105][106], In December 2022, Tennant starred as Alexander Litvinenko in the ITV1 dramatisation Litvinenko. Tennant has gone on record as saying that, contrary to tabloids reports, he was not upset at not being able to play the role in his own accent and in fact had never wanted to. She had recently had her nasal septum pierced, which was an unusual look for models at the time. [38], While playing the Doctor, Tennant was also in the early December 2005 ITV drama Secret Smile. [37] The three 60th anniversary special episodes will air in November 2023. British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of 50, her family have said. By Liam Hess. He played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. David John Tennant (n McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. The pair split in August Stella Tennant died this week just weeks after her 50th . He also starred as the Doctor in another animated six-part Doctor Who series, Dreamland. 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. Where is Glen in the Scottish Borders? The End of Time was the two-part story that served as the 2009 Christmas Special and 2010 New Year Special of Doctor Who. 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. BBC Two. Mrs Tennant also appeared in numerous advertising campaigns for the likes of Calvin Klein, Chanel, Hermes, and Burberry before retiring in 1998 as she was pregnant with her first child. 2. During the Christmas season of 2002, he starred in a series of television advertisements for Boots the Chemists. David loves surfing and skate boarding in his leisure time. [citation needed]. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. Tennant also returned for the final episode of the series with the rest of the participants from the other episodes in the series to take part in one final experiment. However, he was pleased to be able to use his own accent in one episode, when the Doctor briefly masquerades as "Dr. James McCrimmon" of Edinburgh in Tooth and Claw a nod to the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon. The Pirates! Karl Lagerfeld named Tennant the face of Chanel in 1996, and she was cited by several designers as their . [11][18], Tennant married French photographer and osteopath David Lasnet in the village of Oxnam, Roxburghshire, on 22 June 1999. Their relationship appeared idyllic, and they built a happy home in their countryside estate on the Scottish borders. He was an avid "Doctor Who" fan, and even met 4th . Stella Tennant and David Lasnet married at a parish church in the Scottish Borders in 1999 Credit: PA . 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 . [83] He also voiced the Propaganda Minister in the 2015 Square Enix video game Just Cause 3. [10] He also starred in the 2003 London production of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. We do not have the related information on Cecily Lasnet's boyfriend and her dating life. "Ask Me Anything!" the title of the post read. Tennant is survived by her four children, her husband David Lasnet, her parents Tobias Tennant and Lady Emma Cavendish, a brother and a .