Broadcaster and Strictly star Natasha Kaplinsky was on Loose Women today to discuss how she is helping Ukrainian refugees in the UK

Natasha Kaplinsky took an awkward tumble as she made her way onto the Loose Women set today.

The broadcaster and Strictly Come Dancing star was on the show today to discuss how she is helping Ukrainian refugees in the UK, with one family joining her at her home. Natasha is a well known news journalist, and was also the first ever celebrity to win Strictly, which is now had over two decades of success.

However, as she made her way onto the show, she stumbled and the panellists – Ruth Langsford, Kelly Holmes, Coleen Nolan and Janet Street Porter – rushed to check she was alright as they voiced their concern.

Natasha was on her way to the show when she nearly fell
Natasha stumbled as she made her way to the panel, insisting she was fine as the panellists checked on her from their seats.

Introducing her, Ruth revealed: “This past year she’s turned her focus to the war in Ukraine and even hosted a Ukrainian family at her home and her good work doesn’t stop there as she’s now working with a charity to raise awareness of the experience of child refugees. Please give her a warm welcome, Natasha Kaplinksky.”

As she made her way onto the show, she stumbled on the step, holding onto the wall for support as the audience let out shrieks of horror before clapping at Natasha saving herself from falling.

Natasha made it to the panel after a slight hiccup ( 
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“Mind the step. I didn’t fall,” she joked when she sat down as Coleen and Ruth said she had recovered well and checked she was ok. Talk soon turned to her decision to help house a family of Ukrainian refugees.

Speaking to The Telegraph last year, Natasha said: “I registered to give a home to a Ukrainian family straight away. I’m from a family of refugees and enormously privileged to have the space, so it was my responsibility to step up. When I collected the four of them, a father who is partially blind and so couldn’t fight, a mother, a 12-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl, they had just a small suitcase.”

Natasha was also asked about her Strictly Come Dancing stint, as she admitted she didn’t like dancing in public.

Natasha was on the first ever series of StrictlyShe previously said of her hesitancy on joining the show: “As a woman in journalism and having fought quite hard to be taken seriously as a journalist, I felt like that really wasn’t what I needed – to suddenly get into a very short sparkly dress on a Saturday night and start dancing and ask for people to vote for me.

“I didn’t want to take what I felt was a step backwards. Ultimately, I was persuaded. Once I signed the contract, I had a terrible rush of anxiety and tried to break my ankle by falling off every street corner. I was trying to think of every possible reason not to do it.”