Trisha Goddard

Infobox actor


name = Trisha Goddard
birthdate = Birth date and age|1957|12|23|df=y
location = Hackney Central, London, England

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 black mother from Dominica. Until recently, she wrongly believed that her mother's white English husband was her father. [" [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=548488 TV & showbiz: Friday, 28 March, 2008] " — dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved March 30, 2008.] .

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". Fact|date=March 2008

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 the epilogue to her autobiography, published in 2008, she reveals that as a result of a DNA test, and the fact she is considerably blacker than her mother's other children, she now knows that the white man married to her mother was not in fact her genetic father as she had previously believed. She was actually fathered by a black man; this fact was reported by the media in 2008, including by the Daily Mail.

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 was given a fashion makeover by Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine. [" [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article400504.ece Television: Wednesday 22 December] " — timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved September 13, 2007.] 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's new radio station at ( [http://www.citytalk.fm/showdj.asp?DJID=42355 City Talk 105.9] ).

In March 2008, it was revealed that Trisha had breast cancer. Since then she has sought treatment through chemotherapy, and still insists on continuing to front and produce her Channel Five show.

Controversy

In May 2007, Goddard announced that she had been the victim of a "nasty and overtly racist manhandling" by a taxi cab driver in Colchester, Essex, UK. [" [http://www.myvillage.com/norwich/celebs&gossip-trisha_goddard2.htm] "]

References

External links

* [http://www.trishatv.com Trisha Goddard's Website]
* [http://www.five.tv/trishagoddard Five (TV channel) website]
* [http://www.townhousetv.com Trisha Goddard's Production Company website]

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NAME = Goddard, Trisha
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = English television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH = 23 December 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH = Hackney Central, London, England
DATE OF DEATH =
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