Trisha Goddard
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Trisha Goddard (born 1957) is a British television presenter well known for morning talk show Trisha.
She was born in London and attended school in Surrey, passing 11 O Levels. In her teens, she played keyboard for a girlband which split up having made only one record.
Goddard then worked as a stewardess with Gulf Air for five years. She then emigrated to Australia where she worked as a TV reporter and presenter (most notably on Play School) and as a government health advisor on mental health.
In 1998 after returning to Britain she became the host of ITV's new flagship daytime chat show, Trisha, produced by Anglia Television.
However, in September, 2004 Goddard left ITV to join Five in a new programme which made its TV debut on 24 January, 2005. The programme, in similar style to her old show, focuses on relationships, families in crisis and reunions. The show is produced by Town House Productions. It has been observed since the transition, that repeats of her ITV show have continued to achieve higher ratings than her new programme on Five.
Goddard has 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. In Shaun of the Dead, a couple seen arguing in the first scene have reconciled by the second, despite the husband having become a zombie in the mean time. Her show was also featured on the Comic Relief episode of Little Britain where the character Vicky Pollard met up with her long-lost father. 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".
In May 2006, revealing pictures of Trisha taken by an old boyfriend were printed in the Readers' Wives section of Fiesta.
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