- 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 Englishtelevision presenter well known for her morning talk show "Trisha Goddard" which currently airs on five. InAustralia she is known as a long time presenter of "Play School".Background
Goddard was born in
London ,England to a black mother fromDominica . 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. RetrievedMarch 30 ,2008 .] .Brought up in
Tanzania , East Africa andSurrey , her early career as anair 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 2008Trisha 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 theDaily Mail .Media career
After emigrating to
Australia , she worked as atelevision 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 onMental Health .In 1998 after returning to England she became the host of a
ITV flagship daytime chat show, the BAFTA winningTrisha , produced byAnglia 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 characterVicky Pollard met up with her long-lost father. For a "What Not to Wear" Christmas special aired onDecember 22 ,2004 , Goddard was given a fashion makeover byTrinny Woodall andSusannah Constantine . [" [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article400504.ece Television: Wednesday 22 December] " — timesonline.co.uk. RetrievedSeptember 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 ", forChannel 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]Persondata
NAME = Goddard, Trisha
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Englishtelevision presenter
DATE OF BIRTH =23 December 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH =Hackney Central ,London ,England
DATE OF DEATH =
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