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Trisha Goddard

Full / Real Name: Patricia Goddard
Born: 23 December 1957 (66 years old)
Gender: Female

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Trisha Goddard is a British television presenter and actress best known for hosting her own talk shows, Trisha Goddard (1998-2010) and Trisha, since 2012.

For several seasons Goddard was a guest conflict-resolution expert on Maury and h also served as guest host of the talk show several times, becoming very popular with viewers.

Born in London as the eldest of four girls, Goddard was raised and educated in Tanzania, East Africa and Surrey, South East England. In 1985 she immigrated to Australia where she first worked in public relations and shortly after, her television career took off.

As a guest host for Channel Ten's children's show, Off the Dish, she went on to become a news and current affairs reporter for SBS TV in 1986. In the following year she became a popular host with Australia's Play School for ten years.

During this time, she also landed the prestigious job as host on ABC's (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) primetime current affairs program, 7.30 Report and became the first black anchorwoman on Australian TV.

Goddard later established and hosted the prime time show Everybody in Australia and started her own production company, developing, producing over 400 programs.

In September 1998, Goddard moved to Britain to host her own talk show, Trisha until 2005 and became ITV's new Queen of Chat. In late 2004 she set up her own production company in the U.K. called Town House TV, which produced her daily talk show, Trisha Goddard, that aired from 2005-2010 on Channel 5.

Goddard wrote her autobiography As I Am where she talks about her personal trials and tribulations including her breast cancer diagnosis in 2008. Goddard has been cancer free since.

Pulling from her past personal and family struggles, Goddard is a Mental Health activist, wanting to get better services for people with mental illness around the world.

While she was in Australia, the Australian Government appointed her chair of arguably the most powerful Mental Health Body on the continent: The National Consumer Advisory Group on Mental Health.

Over the next 10 years in this role, she was to instigate and chair many high profile National projects, including being a member of Australia's Advertising Standards Board for 2 years, and received high accolades for her work and dedication.

Goddard is actively involved in a number of charities including Home-Start, a parenting charity, and Mind, a major UK Mental Health charity.

In 2011 Goddard was awarded the British College of Psychiatrist's President's International medal for services in mental health and she is one of the 'faces' of UK's "Time to Change," a high profile initiative to tackle the stigma of mental illness.

In 2012, she became a licensed Neuro-Linguistic Programming practitioner.

Goddard is married with two daughters and splits her time living in the U.S. and Britain.


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