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Trisha Goddard health update: How is the GMB presenter after her terminal cancer diagnosis?

Published on April 04, 2025 at 11:34 AM

TRISHA Goddard has been battling incurable breast cancer since 2008, tragically receiving a terminal diagnosis in 2023.

Not one to let anything stop her in her tracks, the celebrated talk show hostis joining the on April 7, 2025.

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Trisha Goddard is going to be on Celebrity Big Brother

Flying Eze exclusively revealed the line-up for 2025 on April 2.

is set to be one of the stars featuring in the ITV reality show.

Below we take a look at the TV talk show legend's battle …

What cancers has Trisha Goddard been diagnosed with?

Trisha has been diagnosed with twice.

The first time the 67-year-old was 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.

, 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 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 (GMB) 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.”;

It’s not who I am, it’s what I’m living with. Trisha Goddard

Trisha told presenters and : “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.

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, at CNN.

A lively discussion unfolds on Good Morning Britain, featuring three people seated around a modern, triangular-shaped table. On the left, Ed Balls is in a blue suit sitting next to Kate Garraway in a yellow suit, both intently listening to a guest on their right. The guest, Trisha Goddard, is dressed in a stylish burnt orange outfit, and is animatedly speaking. Behind them, a large window offers a panoramic view of a cityscape, prominently featuring a Ferris wheel and river scenery.
Trisha told GMB that she didn't want the cancer to define who she was

“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.

A man and a woman are seated at a sleek, modern desk on a morning TV show, both smiling warmly at the camera. Richard Madeley, on the left, is dressed in a dark blazer and light shirt, his silver hair styled neatly. Trisha Goddard sports a vibrant, patterned top in shades of orange, pink, and black, her short blonde hair complementing her bright smile. Behind them, a backdrop of a cityscape under a soft pink sky adds a picturesque element to the scene.
The TV presenter temporarily co-hosted Good Morning Britain in the summer of 2024

“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 while being treated for breast cancer.

When did Trisha Goddard present Good Morning Britain?

In August 2024, Trisha was a .

She filled in while was on her summer break.

Trisha 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.”;

But when Susanna came back from her holiday, came to an end.

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