TRISHA GODDARD

'Trisha Goddard' (born 23 December, 1957) is an English television presenter well known for morning talk show ''Trisha Goddard'' which is aired on five. In Australia she is known as a long time presenter of Play School.

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Background

Media Career

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Background

Goddard was born in Hackney, London,^[1], one of four daughters born to a White English father and a Black Dominican mother, who were both psychiatric nurses. Goddard was raised in Virginia Water. She attended Sir William Perkins's School in Surrey, passing 11 O Levels.
In her teens, she managed and 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.
Goddard's first husband was Australian politician Robert Nestdale. She then married to Australian television producer Mark Greive with whom she has two daughters.
She now lives in Norwich with her third husband, Peter Gianfrancesco.
In May 2006, explicit pictures of her taken by an old boyfriend were printed in the Readers' Wives section of ''Fiesta''.

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, 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. 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.

External links

★ Trisha Website

★ five.tv - ''Trisha Goddard''