From then on, everything got better.'. Her family said in a statement: 'It is with great sadness we announce the sudden death of Stella Tennant on 22nd December 2020. [5] T Magazine; In an interview, he revealed that when he was 18-20 years old, he was suffering from depression, and his wife, Stella Tennant, had helped him in recovering from it. In both audio productions, he worked alongside Nicholas Courtney, who reprised the character of Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. They moved to the 18th-century house from New York in the US where Lasnet had forged a successful career as a photographer while Stella excelled as a model. [37] The three 60th anniversary special episodes will air in November 2023. In a statement shared with The Telegraph, the model's family revealed that Tennant had been . 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. [42] Tennant is the voice behind the 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos, and appeared in adverts for The Proclaimers' 2007 album and learndirect in June 2008. By Max Goldbart. She came from a completely . [27], He previously had a small role in the BBC's animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. She has died suddenly, shortly after her 50th birthday. [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. He appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006. They couple shared lunch after the shoot. The film was released in September 2014. I mean, what else is there really?'. Tennant had a cameo appearance as the Doctor in the 2007 finale episode of the BBC/HBO comedy series Extras with Ricky Gervais. Blanche hides the fact she has lost her job and slowly develops a mental break with reality and comes . 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.. [131][132] Ty has acted in the film Tolkien and the 2019 television adaptation of War of the Worlds. They had four children together. [95], Tennant stars as a doctor suspected of murdering his family in Deadwater Fell, a Scottish true crime miniseries, which premiered in January 2020 on Channel 4. He revived this performance for the anniversary of the Royal Court Theatre in a rehearsed reading. [11] The following year, he played a role in an episode of Dramarama. Related Topics. All about Stella Tennant. (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 and their children survive her. The Scot made her name in the early 1990s on catwalks for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers . She was a muse of the designers Karl Lagerfeld,[18] Gianni Versace,[17][19] Alexander McQueen, Nicolas Ghesquire, Riccardo Tisci and Victoria Beckham. Tennant, who lived in Duns, a town in the Scottish borders, died on 22 December . [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. Totally Tennant. Antonia Paget For Mailonline British supermodel Stella Tennant died on Tuesday at the age of 50. David Tennant 's wife Georgia has taken to Instagram with a very sweet snapshot of her family. 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. Arrangements for a memorial service will be announced at a later date.'. 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. [39], On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC One drama written by Tony Marchant. "Its that . Their relationship appeared idyllic, and they built a happy home in their countryside estate on the Scottish borders. One of his earliest big-screen roles was in Jude (1996), in which he shared a scene with Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect. [127][128] They have five children,[129][130] including actor Ty Tennant, Moffett's child from a previous relationship whom Tennant adopted. Tennant was born David John McDonald in Bathgate on 18 April 1971, the son of Helen (ne McLeod; 19402007) and Alexander "Sandy" McDonald (19372016). [123] He has said that he believes religion "must have" shaped his character, and revealed that he is an occasional churchgoer. David lasnet and aristocratic supermodel Stella Tennant married in 1999 in Oxnam, a town on the Scottish borders. In this May 22, 1999 file photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. [35][36] Previously thought to be returning as the Tenth Doctor, in October 2022, the ending of the special episode "The Power of the Doctor" revealed that Tennant would return as the Fourteenth Doctor, a role previously thought to be played by Ncuti Gatwa, who would follow on as the Fifteenth Doctor instead. His first Shakespearean role for the RSC was in As You Like It (1996); having auditioned for the role of Orlando, the romantic lead, he was instead cast as the jester Touchstone, which he played in his natural Scottish accent. [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. Model Stella Tennant walks the runway at the Ralph Lauren fashion show during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Skylight Clarkson Sq on September 14, 2016, in New York . [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. [13] Soon after, Karl Lagerfeld announced Tennant as the new face of Chanel, with an exclusive contract. Another said: "9 year old me who sobbed for a week once David Tennant regenerated is throwing a . Supermodel Stella Tennant 's family has confirmed her cause of death. [2][3] He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston,[4] where his father was the local minister. When he moved to London shortly afterwards, he lodged with Weir for five years[10] and became godfather to her youngest child. 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. [25], Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. 'I'm not really pursuing my modelling in the same way. For the last decade, she devoted most of her time looking after her four children and promoting sustainable causes. [16] During filming of Takin' Over the Asylum he met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of 50, her family have said. Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse . [8][26], In 2009, Tennant worked with green lifestyle organisation Global Cool to promote using less energy at home. [70] Tennant repeated his performance as Richard II in the RSC's 'King and Country' cycle in 2016, starting at the Barbican Theatre in London[71] before transferring to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Shortly after the news broke, British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enniful posted a tribute to the model on Instagram . [50] In October 2010 he starred as Dave, a man struggling to raise five children after the death of his partner, in the British drama Single Father. 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. [22] She continued to sculpt, and with her sister, a gilder, operated a luxury homewares company, Tennant & Tennant. 2. LONDON (Reuters) - Stella Tennant, one of Britain's top models, has died at the age of 50, British media reported on Wednesday. She was well liked, warm and friendly. 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). British supermodel Stella Tennant took her own life after being "unwell for some time", her family have confirmed. 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. On 9 February 2015, Tennant appeared on the Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute, becoming the show's most successful debut contestant. Her family confirmed the news to the PA news agency (via BBC . Born David John McDonald in 1971, David Tennant had always wanted to be an actor. 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. Tennant's family, including her husband, David Lasnet, and their four children . 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. If it wants to pursue me, that's a different thing, but me as I am. ', 'When we moved here, Stella's mom watched me cutting down trees and said: 'Yeah, it takes 10 minutes to chop down a tree and 10 years to see it grow.'. Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. Tennant's maternal grandfather, footballer Archie McLeod, met William and Agnes' daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City FC. Later in September 2011, it was announced that Tennant would voice a character in the movie adaptation of Postman Pat named You Know You're the One with a planned 3D theatrical release for spring 2013. [13] Steven Meisel then used her on the cover of Italian Vogue. [1] His father was a minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Another said: "9 year old me who sobbed for a week once David Tennant regenerated is throwing a . [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. He began filming the new series of Doctor Who in late July 2005. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. Stella Tennant, model and designer, born 17 December 1970; died 22 December 2020. David Tennant's Time Lord also used up an extra regeneration to save himself in an episode called Journey's End. Then David and I decided we wanted to have a family." She married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999 and had four children. Tennant emerged as a top model in the 1990s and her career spanned nearly three decades. The End of Time was the two-part story that served as the 2009 Christmas Special and 2010 New Year Special of Doctor Who. [14], Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school. Between January and May 2014, Tennant also filmed the US remake of Broadchurch, re-titled Gracepoint. RELATED ARTICLES. No one in fashion could guess what would succeed the smiling, buoyant healthfulness of the international supermodels who commanded catwalks and covers in the late 1980s and early 90s. Read more. [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. British model Stella Tennant during Chanel's 1996-97 fall-winter . Stella Tennant and David Lasnet at their wedding in 1999 Credit: David Cheskin/PA Only days before she died, Tennant had turned 50, and clearly middle age can be a dangerous time. His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Peter Vincent in the horror remake Fright Night (2011), DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series Broadchurch (20132017), Kilgrave in the Netflix superhero series Jessica Jones (20152019), Crowley in the Amazon Prime fantasy series Good Omens (2019present), and Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days (2021). [citation needed], Tennant featured in an episode of Trick or Treat on Channel 4 in May 2008. The Pirates! 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. In summer 2009, Tennant filmed St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. Ki Price/Getty Images. [115] In October 2006, he was named "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards. His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in . 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. He is student Cody Tennant, still just 19, who three years ago launched a legal bid to challenge his eccentric grandfather Lord Glenconner's will in the High Court of St Lucia. Tennant, who maintained her edge throughout her lengthy career in fashion, died this week at age 50, Vogue reported. According to her family, she died by suicide after struggling with her mental health. 'I'm incredibly glad to be where I am. David loves surfing and skate boarding in his leisure time. 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. British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of 50, her family have said. [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". [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.