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{{short description|Indian Canadian television personality (born 1980)}}
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| birth_name = Komila Jagtiani
| birth_date = {{birth date|1980|8|8|}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| death_date =
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|alma_mater = [[University of Toronto]]
| employer =
| occupation = Television personality
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'''Kim Jagtiani''' (born '''Komila Jagtiani'''; August 8, 1980) is an [[Indian Canadian]] [[television personality]] who has hosted multiple TV programmes, including regular appearances on ''[[Daily Planet (TV series)|Daily Planet]]'' for a series entitled '''India Unleashed'''. She was also a [[VJ (media personality)|VJ]] (video jockey) for [[Channel V]] India, hosting ''Cool Stop'', ''P.O.V.'' and ''Club V'', and was considered to be a household name in India.{{Citation needed|date=June 2010}}

Born in [[Mumbai]], [[India]], she and her family moved to [[Oshawa]], [[Ontario]] in Canada, and she altered her name from Komila to Kim in order to better help her adjust to Canadian society.{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}} Jagtiani won ''Miss India Canada'' in 1999, and has modelled for [[Seventeen (American magazine)|Seventeen]] and [[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]].<ref name="dailyplanet">{{Cite web
| url = http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/2578/Kim-Jagtiani-is-Daily-Planets-new-co-host.aspx
| title = Kim Jagtiani is Daily Planet's new co-host
| publisher = CTVGlobemedia
| date = 2 August 2007
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927202140/http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/rw/2578/Kim-Jagtiani-is-Daily-Planets-new-co-host.aspx
| archivedate = 27 September 2007
| accessdate = 2007-08-30
| quote = The search is over! Kim Jagtiani is Daily Planet's new co-host. Jagtiani joins veteran science journalist Jay Ingram, when the new season begins on Tues., Sept. 4.
}}</ref>

While vacationing in India, television station Channel V contacted her, asking if she'd like to audition to be a VJ. Though she declined, her aunt made her reconsider and she went to the audition. Believing her audition went poorly, she was surprised to be contacted yet again by Channel V, who offered her a full-time position. Leaving her studies at [[University of Toronto]], she moved to [[Mumbai]] in 2000 to begin her new job. Through her 5 year career at Channel V she learned to speak [[Hindi]]. Following this, she joined [[STAR One]] in India to host the travel program Exotica.<ref name="exotica">{{cite web|url=http://www.mansworldindia.com/newsite/articles/gallery/sep06/gallery03.asp |title=Kim Jagtiani |last=Mehta |first=Anita |publisher=Man's World India |date=September 2006 |accessdate=2010-06-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521102259/http://www.mansworldindia.com/newsite/articles/gallery/sep06/gallery03.asp |archivedate=May 21, 2009 }}</ref>

Jagtiani has also acted in several Indian plays and commercials and is trained in various forms of dance,<ref name="exotica" /> including [[jazz dance]] and [[Latin dance]].<ref name="dancing">{{Cite news
| url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-times/dancing-kim/articleshow/46907387.cms
| title = Dancing Kim
| newspaper = [[Delhi Times]]
| publisher = Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.
| date = 20 May 2003
| accessdate = 2010-06-01
}}</ref> She began training in [[kathak]] in 2003,<ref name="dancing" /> and enjoys attending Kathak performances.<ref name="kathak">{{Cite news
| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051224/asp/weekend/story_5613767.asp
| title = My weekend: Kim Jagtiani — model
| last = Dua
| first = Aarti
| newspaper = The Telegraph
| location = [[Kolkata]]
| date = 24 December 2005
| accessdate = 2010-06-01
}}</ref>
On 2 August 2007, Discovery Channel announced Jagtiani as the new co-host of ''Daily Planet'', a daily science feature show on Discovery Canada, starting 4 September 2007.<ref name="dailyplanet" /> She had co-hosted an India theme week for the programme in the spring of 2007.<ref name="dailyplanet" /> She left ''Daily Planet'' in September 2008, and returned to India where she currently hosts travel documentaries for [[Discovery Channel India]] and [[NDTV Good Times]].

She was one of 50 semi-finalists for [[Hamilton Island (Queensland)#The Best Job In The World|The Best Job In The World]],<ref name="bestjob">{{Cite news
|url=http://www.behindindia.com/india-news-stories/mar-09/australia-04-03-09.html
|title=Indians may bag the best job
|publisher=BehindIndia.com
|date=4 March 2009
|accessdate=2010-06-01
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118154408/http://www.behindindia.com/india-news-stories/mar-09/australia-04-03-09.html
|archivedate=18 January 2010
}}</ref> a competition created by [[Tourism Queensland]] to promote the [[Great Barrier Reef]] as a tourism destination.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927202313/http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/article.aspx?aid=1160 A short article regarding Kim Jagtiani's assistance with India Unleashed]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080915152839/http://www.mybindi.com/gallery/adayinthelife/vjkim.html An article about the life of Kim Jagtiani]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZPBHKfMPqY The Best Job In The World] video by Jagtiani
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