A biography for Trisha Goddardhasn’t been written yet.
“It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?”
“I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.”
“There is a learning quality in all of our shows.”
“I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.”
“Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.”
“We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.”
“Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.”
“Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.”
“I am an addictive personality.”
“I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.”
“It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.”
“I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.”
“Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?”
“I can be horrifically single-minded.”
“I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.”
“I suggest that instead of criticising us, the establishment has a bloody good look at itself.”
“I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.”
“If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.”
“Why don't you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael?”
“I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.”