My cousin was on that, you know!! (Trisha)

Member Name: Emma1973

Product:	Trisha
Date:	24/07/02 (322 review reads)
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Advantages: Fills a gap in the tv schedules, Queen Goddard herself

Disadvantages: Can be a bit bland

God I must be bored!! First Bargain Hunt, then Kilroy, now Trisha. Hum, I really must get some outside interests, a job perhaps?

But then I would never be able to watch tacky tv! Dear God, sanity or boredom?

Anyway lets give you the lowdown on the woman who would usurp Kilroys crown. Trisha Goddard is a forty-something Black woman, little enough seen on tv anyway. Her life story more than reflects the worst of her shows! After emigrating to Australia,her first husband left her after a few months, she later found out he was gay after he died from Aids. She married again, happy for a while, her sister who had schizophrenia doused herself in petrol and killed herself, her baby daughter then developed a life-threatening disease. If that wasnt enough her husband was carrying on an affair at the same time!
Unsurprisingly Trisha suffered a nervous breakdown and ended up in a psychiatric hospital for a month. She then went on to become a counsellor and advisor on mental health to the Australian government.

All I can say is 'wow, what a woman' if its true of course. I would rather her give me some advice than old smarmy Kilroy!

Now the program, on every day, except the school holidays, from 9.30am to 10.30 am, it follows the more traditional American style chat show. The guests come out and sit in front of the audience, tell their story and then get bitched at by members of the audience, sorry, meant given helpful advice of course, while Queen Goddard keeps rule.

So what makes Trisha unique? Well nothing really, except she's a sucessful Black woman who has experienced problems like the rest of us, and can therefore empathise more than someone like Kilroy.
The show is full of the usual plots, cheaters, paternity tests (always make me laugh!), body image, talent shows,etc. Some are more interesting than others, especially the teenage girl who had slept with the father and son, didnt know who the father of the b
aby was, and generally destroyed a family. Lots of swearing and attempted fisticuffs on that day!
Unfortunatly I missed the one my teenge cousin was on, he cheated on his girlfriend whilst she was pregnant, no end of scandal in my family, of course his mum could also go on there 'I dumped my 4 kids and ran off with my (female) best friend', any wonder the boy's confused?
She also follows up on the guests, getting them help with counsellors and organisations, and getting them to come back on the programme to see how they have done.

Is she a genuinely caring person, or out to make some money with a bit of sensationalism? Probably a bit of both. In her defence I have to say she never belittles the guests or puts them down, but appears to do the best she can to put them at their ease. On the down side she can bring up whats happens to her on quite a regular basis, intimating that anyone can solve their own problems. Which, of course, is not always the case.

Not a highly watchable programme, something to look at when there is nothing on, an after Kilroy programme if you cant stand the Wright Stuff (ah an idea!) but before Maury Povich (another idea).
Oh dear I'm losing it now, must dash, Jenny Jones is about to start!!

And in case you are interested Trisha has now been happily married for nearly 5 years.

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