Trisha Goddard
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Patricia "Trisha" Goddard (born 23 December 1957) is a British
television presenter and actress best known for her morning talk show, Trisha Goddard, which is broadcast on a mid morning slot on Channel 5 in the UK. In Australia
she is known as a long time presenter of Play School
.
, England
to a black
mother from Dominica
. Until recently, she wrongly believed that her mother's white
English
husband was her father. She was brought up in Tanzania
(East Africa), and the English counties of Norfolk
and Surrey
. Ironically, she discovered that her mother's husband is not her biological father on a special edition of The Jeremy Kyle Show
for expatriates in Tanzania, followed by primary school at Heacham
in Norfolk and Sir William Perkins's School
in Chertsey
, Surrey, at the time a voluntary controlled
Church of England girls' grammar school, and which is now an independent school.
She then became a presenter and roving reporter for Australia's 7.30 Report which led to her presenting the prime-time show Everybody, after which she started a production company,with Producers Mark Greive and Phil Gerlach. She helped devise, produce and present more than 400 programmes of the chat show Live It Up, before returning to the UK in 1998 to host her own talk show on ITV
, Trisha.
Trisha Goddard launched her own independent television production company, Town House TV, with former Director of Programmes and Production for ITV Anglia, Malcolm Allsop.
She recently published her autobiography
, in which she revealed the aforementioned truth about her parentage, a fact that had previously been reported in The Daily Mail.
, she worked as a television presenter (most notably on the ABC
's The 7.30 Report
) and also as a host of the children's program Play School
. She was later chairperson of the Australian Government
's National Community Advisory Group on Mental Health
.
In 1998 after returning to the UK she became the host of an ITV
flagship daytime chat show, the BAFTA winning Trisha, produced by Anglia Television
.
In September, 2004 Goddard left ITV to join Five in a new programme titled Trisha Goddard, which made its TV debut on 24 January 2005. Similar in style to her old show, it focuses on relationships, families in crisis, and reunions. The show is produced by Town House Productions. In the early stages of the show, it was observed that repeats of her ITV show have continued to achieve higher ratings than her new programme on Five. In January 2009, Five announced it would not be renewing her contract, for financial reasons.
Goddard had always been willing to appear in comic satires of her television programmes. In 2003, a specially-shot clip of her show appeared in the ITV religious fantasy drama The Second Coming. In 2004, she filmed two short scenes for the romantic zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead
. Both scenes were filmed on the set of Trisha.
Her show was also featured on a Comic Relief episode of Little Britain
where the character Vicky Pollard
met up with her long-lost father. For a What Not to Wear Christmas special aired on 22 December 2004, Goddard was given a fashion makeover by Trinny Woodall
and Susannah Constantine
.
She appears very briefly in the 2006 Doctor Who
episode "Army of Ghosts
" in a parody episode of her own show entitled "I Married a Ghost".
She appeared as a guest on the BBC
's The Kumars at No. 42
and was also the guest host for an episode of the second series of The Friday Night Project
, for Channel 4
. Goddard also has her own talk show on Liverpool radio station City Talk 105.9
.
In March 2008, it was revealed that Goddard had breast cancer. Since then she has sought treatment through chemotherapy, and still insists on continuing to front and produce her Channel Five show. At the end of August, it had become apparent that Trisha was in remission, and seemed very healthy again. It was reported that she had lived through worse afflictions than cancer (namely, depression) and compared herself to Kylie Minogue
for motivation.
On 10 January 2009, Five announced that The Trisha Goddard show will not be returning after its current run has finished.
Goddard also made an appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
raising up to £75,000. She also made an appearance on the BBC show Shooting Stars in 2010.
Beginning in 2010, Trisha has occasional appearances on Maury
as a consultant and a guest host.
On October 20, 2011, Trisha announced that Season 21 would be her final season of Maury
to get her own talk show in Fall 2012.
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...
television presenter and actress best known for her morning talk show, Trisha Goddard, which is broadcast on a mid morning slot on Channel 5 in the UK. In Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
she is known as a long time presenter of Play School
Play School (Australian TV series)
Play School is an Australian educational television show for children produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It is the longest-running children's show in Australia, and the second longest running childrens show in the world. An estimated 80% of pre-school children under six watch the...
.
Background
Goddard was born in LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
to a black
Black people
The term black people is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a...
mother from Dominica
Dominica
Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...
. Until recently, she wrongly believed that her mother's white
White people
White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin...
English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
husband was her father. She was brought up in Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
(East Africa), and the English counties of Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
and Surrey
Surrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
. Ironically, she discovered that her mother's husband is not her biological father on a special edition of The Jeremy Kyle Show
The Jeremy Kyle Show
The Jeremy Kyle Show is an award-winning British daytime television tabloid talk show presented by Jeremy Kyle that has been broadcast on ITV since 4 July 2005. The show is recorded and produced by Granada Television at the Granada Studios on Quay Street in Manchester city centre and broadcast each...
Education
Goddard was educated at an independent schoolIndependent school
An independent school is a school that is independent in its finances and governance; it is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the...
for expatriates in Tanzania, followed by primary school at Heacham
Heacham
Heacham is a village of 4,707 inhabitants, located in north-west Norfolk, England, between King's Lynn, to the south and Hunstanton, about to the north, on The Wash.- History :...
in Norfolk and Sir William Perkins's School
Sir William Perkins's School
HeadmistressMrs Del CookeChairman of GovernorsDr Alun JonesFounded1725School typeIndependent schoolReligious affiliationSecularSpecialismNoneForms4 LocationChertsey, EnglandEnrollment575...
in Chertsey
Chertsey
Chertsey is a town in Surrey, England, on the River Thames and its tributary rivers such as the River Bourne. It can be accessed by road from junction 11 of the M25 London orbital motorway. It shares borders with Staines, Laleham, Shepperton, Addlestone, Woking, Thorpe and Egham...
, Surrey, at the time a voluntary controlled
Voluntary controlled school
A voluntary controlled school is a state-funded school in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in which a foundation or trust has some formal influence in the running of the school...
Church of England girls' grammar school, and which is now an independent school.
Life and career
Goddard's early career as an air stewardess led to travel writing for magazines and then, after settling in Australia in the mid 1980s, a new career in television.She then became a presenter and roving reporter for Australia's 7.30 Report which led to her presenting the prime-time show Everybody, after which she started a production company,with Producers Mark Greive and Phil Gerlach. She helped devise, produce and present more than 400 programmes of the chat show Live It Up, before returning to the UK in 1998 to host her own talk show on ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
, Trisha.
Trisha Goddard launched her own independent television production company, Town House TV, with former Director of Programmes and Production for ITV Anglia, Malcolm Allsop.
She recently published her autobiography
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
, in which she revealed the aforementioned truth about her parentage, a fact that had previously been reported in The Daily Mail.
Media career
After emigrating to AustraliaAustralia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, she worked as a television presenter (most notably on the ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
's The 7.30 Report
The 7.30 Report
The 7.30 Report is an Australian nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at , Mondays–Thursdays...
) and also as a host of the children's program Play School
Play School (Australian TV series)
Play School is an Australian educational television show for children produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It is the longest-running children's show in Australia, and the second longest running childrens show in the world. An estimated 80% of pre-school children under six watch the...
. She was later chairperson of the Australian Government
Government of Australia
The Commonwealth of Australia is a federal constitutional monarchy under a parliamentary democracy. The Commonwealth of Australia was formed in 1901 as a result of an agreement among six self-governing British colonies, which became the six states...
's National Community Advisory Group on Mental Health
Mental health
Mental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...
.
In 1998 after returning to the UK she became the host of an ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
flagship daytime chat show, the BAFTA winning Trisha, produced by Anglia Television
Anglia Television
Anglia Television is the ITV franchise holder for the East Anglia franchise region. Although Anglia Television takes its name from East Anglia, its transmission coverage extends beyond the generally accepted boundaries of that region. The station is based at Anglia House in Norwich, with regional...
.
In September, 2004 Goddard left ITV to join Five in a new programme titled Trisha Goddard, which made its TV debut on 24 January 2005. Similar in style to her old show, it focuses on relationships, families in crisis, and reunions. The show is produced by Town House Productions. In the early stages of the show, it was observed that repeats of her ITV show have continued to achieve higher ratings than her new programme on Five. In January 2009, Five announced it would not be renewing her contract, for financial reasons.
Goddard had always been willing to appear in comic satires of her television programmes. In 2003, a specially-shot clip of her show appeared in the ITV religious fantasy drama The Second Coming. In 2004, she filmed two short scenes for the romantic zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 British zombie comedy directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Pegg and Wright. Pegg plays Shaun, a man attempting to get some kind of focus in his life as he deals with his girlfriend, his mother and stepfather...
. Both scenes were filmed on the set of Trisha.
Her show was also featured on a Comic Relief episode of Little Britain
Little Britain
Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas...
where the character Vicky Pollard
Vicky Pollard
Vicky Pollard is a fictional character from the British comedy TV series Little Britain, which aired on BBC.Vicky Pollard is a stereotypical chav. She is a teenage mother and juvenile delinquent and is known for her inarticulate and incredibly fast speech and incessant gossip...
met up with her long-lost father. For a What Not to Wear Christmas special aired on 22 December 2004, Goddard was given a fashion makeover by Trinny Woodall
Trinny Woodall
Trinny Woodall is an English fashion advisor and designer, television presenter and author. She was raised in a wealthy family and was privately educated...
and Susannah Constantine
Susannah Constantine
Susannah Caroline Constantine is an English fashion journalist, advisor, television presenter, author and designer. Her second book, entitled What Not to Wear, has won her a prestigious British Book Award and sold 670,000 copies....
.
She appears very briefly in the 2006 Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
episode "Army of Ghosts
Army of Ghosts
"Army of Ghosts" is the twelfth and penultimate episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who which was first broadcast on 1 July 2006...
" in a parody episode of her own show entitled "I Married a Ghost".
She appeared as a guest on the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's The Kumars at No. 42
The Kumars at No. 42
The Kumars at No. 42 was a British television show. It won an International Emmy in 2002 and in 2003. It ran for seven series totalling 53 episodes.-Plot:...
and was also the guest host for an episode of the second series of The Friday Night Project
The Friday Night Project
The Sunday Night Project was a British comedy-variety show by Princess Productions that first aired on Channel 4 in February 2005 under the title The Friday Night Project...
, for Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
. Goddard also has her own talk show on Liverpool radio station City Talk 105.9
City Talk 105.9
City Talk 105.9 is a commercial radio station in Liverpool, England. The station was awarded a licence by Ofcom on 9 November 2006 and the station launched on 28 January 2008. City Talk is a sister station to the existing Bauer Radio-owned Radio City and Magic 1548, and the stations share studio...
.
In March 2008, it was revealed that Goddard had breast cancer. Since then she has sought treatment through chemotherapy, and still insists on continuing to front and produce her Channel Five show. At the end of August, it had become apparent that Trisha was in remission, and seemed very healthy again. It was reported that she had lived through worse afflictions than cancer (namely, depression) and compared herself to Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...
for motivation.
On 10 January 2009, Five announced that The Trisha Goddard show will not be returning after its current run has finished.
Goddard also made an appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a British television quiz show which offers a maximum cash prize of one million pounds for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty...
raising up to £75,000. She also made an appearance on the BBC show Shooting Stars in 2010.
Beginning in 2010, Trisha has occasional appearances on Maury
Maury (TV series)
Maury is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Maury Povich.When the series first aired in 1991, the show was called The Maury Povich Show and was produced by MoPo Productions in association with Paramount Domestic Television...
as a consultant and a guest host.
On October 20, 2011, Trisha announced that Season 21 would be her final season of Maury
Maury (TV series)
Maury is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Maury Povich.When the series first aired in 1991, the show was called The Maury Povich Show and was produced by MoPo Productions in association with Paramount Domestic Television...
to get her own talk show in Fall 2012.