Trisha Goddard
Goddard in 2009
Born	Patricia Gloria Goddard (1957-12-23)23 December 1957 (age 67) Hackney, London, England
Occupation	Television presenter
Years active	1987–present
Spouse(s)	Robert Nestdale ​ ​ (m. 1985; div. 1986)​ Mark Grieve ​ ​ (m. 1993; div. 1996)​ Peter Gianfrancesco ​ ​ (m. 1998; div. 2017)​ Allen ​ (m. 2022)​
Children	2

Patricia Gloria Goddard (born 23 December 1957) is a British television presenter. From 1998 to 2010, she presented the talk showTrisha, which was broadcast in a mid-morning slot onITV, before later being moved toChannel 5. She also hosted anAmerican version of her eponymous show, which ran from 2012 until 2014.

Goddard began her career in Australia hosting the children's showPlay School (1987–1998) onABC TV, and presenting the current affairs programmeThe 7:30 Report (1988–1990) on the same network. In 2010, she was a conflict resolution expert for the American talk showMaury. In 2021, Goddard began presenting ontalkRADIO, and went on to join its television equivalentTalkTV when it launched the following year. In 2022, she fronted a revival series of the dieting showYou Are What You Eat on Channel 5.

In 2020, Goddard was a contestant on thetwelfth series ofDancing on Ice. In 2025, she appeared as a housemate on thetwenty-fourth series of the reality showCelebrity Big Brother. Goddard has been diagnosed with breast cancer twice, in 2008 and 2023 respectively, and is the patron of several charities.

Patricia Gloria Goddard was born inHackney, London on 23 December 1957, the daughter of Agnes Fortune, an auxiliary nurse fromDominica, and an unknown father.^[1][2] She did not discover that the white man who raised her was not her biological father until after her mother's death, though he was the biological father of her three sisters.^[3] In her late-50s, Goddard set out to find details of her biological father after a genetics expert insisted that her skin colour made it almost impossible for her to have a white father.^[4] As a child, she was educated at an independent school for expatriates inTanzania, after which she returned to England to attend primary school inHeacham, Norfolk. She then joinedSir William Perkins's School inChertsey, Surrey, which was avoluntary controlledChurch of England girls' grammar school at the time.^[5]

Goddard's early career as aflight attendant led to travel writing for magazines and then, after settling inAustralia in the mid-1980s, she embarked on a career in television.^[6][7] She worked there as a television presenter, most notably onABC'sThe 7.30 Report, and also as a host of the children's programmePlay School.^[8]

In 1998, after returning to the United Kingdom, Goddard became the host of an ITV flagship daytime chat show,Trisha, produced byAnglia Television.^[9] She launched her own independent television production company, Town House TV, with former Director of Programmes and Production for ITV Anglia, Malcolm Allsop.^[10] In September 2004, Goddard left ITV to joinChannel 5 in which her show was relaunched and given the new titleTrisha Goddard, which made its network debut on 24 January 2005.^[11] Similar in style to the previous iteration, it focussed on relationships, families in crisis, and reunions. The show was produced by Town House Productions. In the early stages of the show, it was observed that repeats of her ITV show continued to achieve higher ratings than her new programme on Channel 5.^[12] In January 2009, Channel 5 announced it would not be renewing her contract, for financial reasons. The final episode of her chat show aired in December 2010.^[12][13]

A parody of Goddard was portrayed by comedianLeigh Francis in theChannel 4 sketch showBo' Selecta!, which Goddard said her children suffered from bullying as a result.^[14][15] Goddard made several appearances as a panellist on ITV'sLoose Women from 2002.^[16] She appeared as herself in satires of her chat show in various television shows. In 2003, a specially-shot clip of her show appeared in the ITV religious fantasy dramaThe Second Coming.^[17] In 2004, she filmed two short scenes for the romantic zombie comedyShaun of the Dead. Both scenes were filmed on the set ofTrisha. In 2004, a facsimile version of her show was featured in the first episode and last episodes of the third series of sitcomFat Friends, where she interviewed the "slimming group" consisting of the main characters, where Betty (Alison Steadman) unintentionally revealed her secret that she had given up a baby at the age of fifteen.^[18] The episode showed the director telling Goddard to remain on Betty and wait until she revealed her secret.^[19] Her show was also featured on aComic Relief episode ofLittle Britain where the characterVicky Pollard met up with her long-lost father.^[20] For aWhat Not to Wear Christmas special aired on 22 December 2004, Goddard was given a fashion makeover byTrinny Woodall andSusannah Constantine.^[21] She appears very briefly in the 2006Doctor Who episode "Army of Ghosts" in a parody episode of her own show entitled "I Married a Ghost".^[22]

In 2006, Goddard appeared as a guest on theBBC'sThe Kumars at No. 42 and was also the guest host for an episode of the second series ofThe Friday Night Project, forChannel 4.^[23] Goddard also had her own talk show on Liverpool radio stationCity Talk 105.9.^[24] Goddard also made an appearance onWho Wants To Be A Millionaire? raising up to £75,000.^[25] She also made an appearance on the BBC showShooting Stars in 2010.^[26] Also that year, she began to make occasional appearances on the American talk programmeMaury as a consultant and a guest host.^[27] In October 2011,NBCUniversal Television Distribution announced that the network would launch anAmerican version of her eponymous talk show to start in September 2012.^[28] In April 2014, it was announced that the programme had been cancelled after two seasons.^[29]

In August 2017, Goddard guest hosted the Channel 5 programmeThe Wright Stuff for five episodes.^[30] She was a regular panellist on Channel 5'sBig Brother's Bit on the Side.^[31] In February 2018, Goddard appeared on an episode ofBBC One game showPointless Celebrities, appearing alongsideKatie Derham.^[32] In January 2020, Goddard took part in thetwelfth series ofDancing on Ice. She was paired withŁukasz Różycki.^[33] They were the first couple to be eliminated from the competition after the judges chose to saveITV News presenterLucrezia Millarini and her skating partnerBrendyn Hatfield.^[34] In February 2021, Goddard appeared onPiers Morgan's Life Stories.^[35] In March 2021, it was announced Goddard would present a revival series ofYou Are What You Eat, which aired the following year.^[36] In August 2021, she served a guest presenter onJeremy Vine during Vine's absence.^[37] The same year, she joinedTalkradio and began presenting its television station equivalent,TalkTV from April 2022.^[38][39] In August 2024, Goddard appeared as a guest presenter onGood Morning Britain.^[40] In April 2025, Goddard entered theCelebrity Big Brother house to appear as a housemate on thetwenty-fourth series.^[41]

Goddard has three younger sisters, Pru, Paula, and Linda.^[42] Her youngest sister, Linda, battledschizophrenia and died in 1988 from complications arising from self-inflicted injuries.^[43] Goddard has cited this as one of her inspirations in becoming a mental health activist.^[44] She has also suffered her own mental health issues, having battled addiction and attempted suicide on at least two occasions.^[45]

Goddard has been married four times and divorced three times. Her first marriage was to Robert Nestdale, an Australian politician and erstwhile director ofUnicef Australia; whom she met in 1985 whilst working as a flight attendant.^[46] The marriage was short-lived: Nestdale was rumoured to be gay, and died fromAIDS in 1989.^[47] Goddard has recorded that Nestdale was abusive to her during their relationship.^[48]She met second husband Mark Grieve, a television producer, in 1987 and they were married in 1993. They had two children together and separated in 1996.^[49] Her third husband, Peter Gianfrancesco, worked as a mental health services professional. They married in 1998, with Goddard's children taking their stepfather's surname. The couple divorced in 2017.^[50] Goddard has been based in the United States since 2010. In January 2022, Goddard announced on social media that she and her partner of four years, Allen, whom she often colloquially refers to as "Boo", had got engaged.^[51] They married in August of that year.^[52] Goddard resides inConnecticut, U.S.^[53][54]

Goddard has been diagnosed withbreast cancer twice. First, in 2008, the cancer was treated and cured.^[55][56] In 2023, Goddard was diagnosed with breast cancer for a second time, however, this time it wasstage IV.^[57] In February 2024, she announced the diagnosis and revealed that it was treatable but not curable.^[58][59] In August 2024, Goddard spoke about her diagnosis, saying that she initially kept it quiet as she just wanted to work and be [herself].^[60]

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