Trisha Goddard

Patricia Gloria Goddard (born 23 December 1957) is an English television presenter and actress. She is best known for her television talk show ''Trisha'' (1998–2010), which was broadcast on a mid-morning slot on ITV before later being moved to Channel 5. Goddard has been based in the U.S. since 2010, when she started working on '' Maury'' as a conflict resolution expert. She also hosted a U.S. version of her own talk show titled ''The Trisha Goddard Show'' (2012–2014). Since 2022, Goddard has presented ''You Are What You Eat''.

Early life

Patricia Gloria Goddard was born in London on 23 December 1957, the daughter of Agnes Fortune, a Windrush nurse from Dominica, and an unknown father. She did not discover that the white man who raised her was not her biological father until after her mother's death, though he was the biological father of her three sisters. In her late-50s, Goddard set out to find details of her biological father after a genetics expert insisted that her skin colour made it almost impossible for her to have a white father. As a child, she was educated at an independent school for expatriates in Tanzania, after which she returned to England to attend primary school in Heacham, Norfolk. She then joined Sir William Perkins's School in Chertsey, Surrey, which was a voluntary controlled Church of England girls' grammar school at the time.

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 worked there as a television presenter, most notably on 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 United Kingdom, Goddard became the host of an ITV flagship daytime chat show, the BAFTA-winning ''Trisha'', produced by Anglia Television. She launched her own independent television production company, Town House TV, with former Director of Programmes and Production for ITV Anglia, Malcolm Allsop.

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 focussed on relationships, families in crisis, and reunions. The show was produced by Town House Productions. In the early stages of the show, it was observed that repeats of her ITV show 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 has made a number of panellist appearances on ITV's ''Loose Women'', she was a regular panellist in 2002, made three appearances in 2003, with two further appearances in 2014, once in 2019 and the latest on 25 February 2021.

Goddard has appeared in 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''. In 2004, a facsimile version of her show was featured on Season 3, Episode 1 of the show "Fat Friends" where she interviewed the "slimming group" of the main characters, and where Betty unintentionally revealed her secret that she had given up a baby at the age of fifteen. The episode showed the director telling Trisha to stay on Betty and wait until she revealed her secret.

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".

Goddard appeared as a guest on the BBC
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