Trisha Goddard

Trisha Goddard

Trisha Goddard (born 23 December, 1957) is an English television presenter well known for her morning talk show Trisha Goddard which currently airs on five. In Australia she is known as a long time presenter of Play School.

Background

Goddard was born in London, England to a white English father and a black mother from Dominica. Brought up in Tanzania, East Africa and Surrey her early career as an air stewardess led to travel writing for magazines and then, when she settled in Australia in the mid 1980's, a new career in television.

She then became a presenter and roving reporter for Australia's 7.30 Report which led to her establishing and presenting the prime-time show Everybody. Then she started her own production company, devising, producing and presenting more than 400 programmes before returning to England in 1998 to host her own talk show on ITV, Trisha.

Apart from her family - husband Peter and daughters Billie and Madison - her two great loves are communication through the medium of her shows and campaigning for a greater understanding of mental health problems.

A trained counsellor in conflict resolution she is vocal about her own mental health problems and actively campaigns for better understanding and de-stigmatisation of mental health issues. She has been an advisor to many Australian mental health groups, is an active supporter of MIND in Britain and is a patron of Home Start which assists with parenting skills and aims to prevent family break-up.

Trisha Goddard has recently launched her own independent television production company, Town House TV, with former Director of Programmes and Production for ITV Anglia, Malcolm Allsop.

Media career

After emigrating to Australia, 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 England she became the host of a 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, 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.

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 December 22, 2004, Goddard 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.

Trisha now has her own talk show on Liverpool's new radio station, City Talk 105.9. http://www.citytalk.fm/showdj.asp?DJID=42355

Breast Cancer

On the 7th April 2008, it was announced by her husband Peter Gianfancesco, that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, three weeks previosuly during a regular mammogram. It unknown whether she will need chemotherapy but wshe hopes to return to her show at the end of the month.

External links

• Trisha Website
• five.tv - Trisha Goddard
• Trisha Goddard's Production Company

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