33 Facts About Trisha Goddard

Patricia Gloria Goddard was born on 23 December 1957 and is a British television presenter.

From 1998 to 2010, she presented the talk show Trisha Goddard, which was broadcast in a mid-morning slot on ITV, before later being moved to Channel 5.

Trisha Goddard hosted an American version of her eponymous show, which ran from 2012 until 2014.

Trisha Goddard began her career in Australia hosting the children's show Play School on ABC TV, and presenting the current affairs programme The 7:30 Report on the same network.

In 2021, Trisha Goddard began presenting on talkRADIO, and went on to join its television equivalent TalkTV when it launched the following year.

In 2020, Trisha Goddard was a contestant on the twelfth series of Dancing on Ice.

Trisha Goddard has been diagnosed with breast cancer twice, in 2008 and 2023 respectively, and is the patron of several charities.

Patricia Gloria Trisha Goddard was born in Hackney, London on 23 December 1957, the daughter of Agnes Fortune, an auxiliary nurse from Dominica, and an unknown father.

Trisha Goddard 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.

Trisha Goddard worked there as a television presenter, most notably on ABC's The 7.30 Report, and as a host of the children's program Play School.

In 1998, after returning to the United Kingdom, Goddard became the host of an ITV flagship daytime chat show, Trisha, produced by Anglia Television.

Trisha Goddard 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 Channel 5 in which her show was relaunched and given the new title Trisha Goddard, which made its network debut on 24 January 2005.

Trisha Goddard made several appearances as a panellist on ITV's Loose Women from 2002.

Trisha Goddard appeared as herself in satires of her chat show in various television shows.

The episode showed the director telling Trisha Goddard to remain on Betty and wait until she revealed her secret.

Trisha Goddard's show was featured on a Comic Relief episode of Little Britain where the character Vicky Pollard met up with her long-lost father.

Trisha Goddard 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".

In 2006, Trisha Goddard appeared as a guest on the BBC's The Kumars at No 42 and was the guest host for an episode of the second series of The Friday Night Project, for Channel 4.

Trisha Goddard had her own talk show on Liverpool radio station City Talk 105.9.

Trisha Goddard made an appearance on the BBC show Shooting Stars in 2010.

Trisha Goddard was a regular panellist on Channel 5's Big Brother's Bit on the Side.

In February 2018, Trisha Goddard appeared on an episode of BBC One game show Pointless Celebrities, appearing alongside Katie Derham.

In January 2020, Trisha Goddard took part in the twelfth series of Dancing on Ice.

In February 2021, Trisha Goddard appeared on Piers Morgan's Life Stories.

Trisha Goddard has cited this as one of her inspirations in becoming a mental health activist.

Trisha Goddard has suffered her own mental health issues, having battled addiction and attempted suicide on at least two occasions.

Trisha Goddard has been married four times and divorced three times.

Trisha Goddard has recorded that Nestdale was abusive to her during their relationship.

Trisha Goddard met second husband Mark Grieve, a television producer, in 1987 and they were married in 1993.

Trisha Goddard has been based in the United States since 2010.

In January 2022, Trisha Goddard announced on social media that she and her partner of four years, Allen, whom she often colloquially refers to as "Boo", had got engaged.

In 2023, Trisha Goddard was diagnosed with breast cancer for a second time this time it was stage four.