TRISHA Goddard has been presenting for decades, and has joined the Good Morning Britain team.
However, her road to success hasn’t been easy, having battled cancer for years. Here’s how she’s managing her diagnoses.
What cancers has Trisha Goddard been diagnosed with?
Trisha has been diagnosed with breast cancer twice.
The first time the 66-year-old was treated and cured of cancer was in 2008.
Unfortunately, she was then told it had come back in 2023, but this time it was Stage 4.
In February 2024, the talk show host revealed that the cancer was treatable but not curable.
Announcing her terminal diagnosis, Trisha said: “It’s not going to go away.”
She continued: “And with that knowledge comes grief, and fear. But I must keep enjoying what I have always enjoyed.”
She told Hello! Magazine: “I can’t lie; I can’t keep making up stories.
“It gets to a stage, after a year and a half, when keeping a secret becomes more of a burden than anything else.”
Trisha is best known for hosting her self-titled talk show on ITV between 1998 and 2005 before it moved to Channel 5 for four years.
She said she doesn’t want people to change how they perceive her following the diagnosis.
What has Trisha Goddard said about her hip and secondary breast cancer diagnosis?
Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain about why she kept the news of the cancer to herself, she said: “I was grappling with how to deal with it myself. Plus I just wanted to work and be me.”
Trisha told presenters Kate Garraway and Ed Balls: “With CNN and my colleagues there, they didn’t know that I had no hair, that I had no feeling in my legs.”
It was here Trisha revealed she was having chemotherapy every week for four and a half months.
It’s not who I am, it’s what I’m living with.
Trisha Goddard
When asked how she’s currently doing, the TV star confessed she’s getting used to her new normal, which includes getting treatments every three weeks.
She continued: “And I was telling you that story about one of my colleagues, name drop, Don Lemon at CNN.
“He was very sweet and we were on air, and he went (pointing to her nose), ‘Nose, nose, nose’ because of chemo you get these nose bleeds and so I quickly wiped it up.”
She added: “I said to my husband afterwards, ‘I’m mortified, Don saw me have this nose bleed’ and he said, ‘Oh, it’s all right, honey, he probably just thinks you’re one of these high flyers who was doing coke all night’.”
Trisha explained that she does not want to be the ‘poster girl’ for cancer, stating: “It’s not who I am, it’s what I’m living with.
“And coming back to people with chronic illnesses, I think we do them a disservice when we use words like ‘brave’, ‘champion’, ‘hero’, ‘survivor’, because they just want to grasp the life they have, and drink life unto the lees.
“And I don’t want everything to be ‘Oh, you look so good’, in brackets ‘considering you’ve got cancer’.”
In 2021, she also revealed that she went through the menopause while being treated for breast cancer.
Is Trisha Goddard still working on Good Morning Britain?
GMB’s Kate announced that Trisha will be coming back to the studio next week as a presenter.
Trisha will lead the show on Tuesday and Wednesday while the usual host, Susanna Reid, is on her summer break.
She commented: “I’m not normally nervous, I have to say, but that bit, I’m not nervous about but this bit (being interviewed), I’ve been shaking like a chihuahua.”