Trisha Goddard Biography
Trisha Goddard is an English actress and television presenter. She is best known for her television talk show Trisha, which originally aired on ITV before moving to Channel 5. She also hosted The Trisha Goddard Show, a version of her own talk show in the United States. Goddard has been presenting You Are What You Eat since 2022.
How old is Trisha Goddard? – Age
She is 65 years old as of 23 December 2022. She was born in 1957 in Hackney, London, United Kingdom. Her real name is Patricia Gloria Goddard.
Trisha Goddard Family
Patricia is the daughter of Agnes Fortune, a Dominican Windrush nurse, and an unknown father. She didn’t realize the white man who raised her wasn’t her biological father until after her mother died, despite the fact that he was the biological father of her three sisters. After a genetics expert told her that her skin color made it nearly impossible for her to have a white father, Goddard set out in her late 50s to find out more about her biological father.
She attended an independent school for expatriates in Tanzania as a child before returning to England to attend primary school in Heacham, Norfolk. She then enrolled at Sir William Perkins’ School in Chertsey, Surrey, which at the time was a voluntary controlled Church of England girls’ grammar school. Pru, Paula, and Linda, Goddard’s three younger sisters. Linda, her youngest sister, suffered from schizophrenia and died in 1988 as a result of complications from self-inflicted injuries. Goddard has three marriages and three divorces.
Trisha Goddard Wife – Children
Her first marriage was to Robert Nestdale, an Australian politician and former director of Unicef Australia, whom she met while working as an air stewardess in 1985. Nestdale was rumored to be gay and died of AIDS in 1989, so the marriage was short-lived. Nestdale was abusive to Goddard during their relationship, according to Goddard’s records.
She met her second husband, television producer Mark Grieve, in 1987, and they married in 1993. They had two children together before divorcing in 1996. Peter Gianfrancesco, her third husband, works in mental health services. Goddard’s children took their stepfather’s surname after they married in 1998. In 2017, the couple divorced. Goddard announced on Instagram in January 2022 that she and her four-year partner, whom she affectionately refers to as ‘Boo,’ had gotten engaged.
Trisha Goddard Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1.4 billion.
Trisha Goddard Season 1 | Season 2 | Career
After returning to the country in 1998, Goddard took the helm of the BAFTA-winning, Anglia Television-produced Trisha, a popular daytime chat show on ITV. With former Director of Programmes and Production for ITV Anglia, Malcolm Allsop, she founded her own independent television production company, Town House TV.
Goddard left ITV in September 2004 to work for Five on a new show called Trisha Goddard, which premiered on television on January 24, 2005. It had a similar aesthetic to her previous program and concentrated on romance, bereaved families, and reunions. Town House Productions was the show’s producer. Early on in the run of the show, it was noticed that repeats of her ITV show consistently received higher ratings than her brand-new Five program.
Five announced in January 2009 that it would not renew her contract due to financial constraints. Goddard has appeared as a panellist on ITV’s Loose Women several times. She was a regular panellist in 2002, made three appearances in 2003, two more in 2014, once in 2019, and the most recently on February 25, 2021.
Goddard has appeared in parodies of her television shows. In 2003, a scene from her show was featured in the ITV religious fantasy drama The Second Coming. She shot two short scenes for the romantic zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead in 2004. Both scenes were shot on the Trisha set.
When she interviewed the main characters’ “slimming group” in Season 3, Episode 1 of the 2004 television series “Fat Friends,” Betty unintentionally revealed her secret that she had given up a baby at the age of fifteen. In the episode, the director was heard advising Trisha to stick with Betty until she revealed her secret.
Vicky Pollard’s character met her long-lost father in an episode of Little Britain called Comic Relief that also featured her show. Goddard underwent a fashion makeover for a What Not to Wear Christmas special that aired on December 22, 2004, thanks to Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine. In a parody episode of her own show titled “I Married a Ghost,” she makes a brief appearance in the 2006 Doctor Who episode “Army of Ghosts.”
Goddard made an appearance as a guest on The Kumars at No. 42 for the BBC and served as the guest host for a segment of The Friday Night Project’s second season on Channel 4. On the radio station City Talk 105.9 in Liverpool, Goddard also hosted her own talk show.
Goddard also appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, where he raised up to £75,000 in total. In 2010, she also appeared on the BBC program Shooting Stars. She started making sporadic appearances on the American talk show Maury that same year as a consultant and a guest host. Her own talk show will debut in America in September 2012, according to NBCUniversal Television Distribution’s announcement made on October 20. This particular program’s cancellation after two seasons was announced on April 1, 2014.
For five episodes of The Wright Stuff on Channel Five in August 2017, Goddard served as a guest host. She frequently participated as a panelist on Big Brother’s Bit on the Side on Channel 5. Alongside Johnny Vaughan and Toby Tarrant, Trisha made an appearance on an episode of the BBC One game show Pointless Celebrities in February 2018.