Good Morning Britain fans were delighted to see Trisha Goddard helm Tuesday’s show a week after she appeared on it to discuss her incurable breast cancer diagnosis.
The veteran broadcaster, best known for her long-running talk show Trisha which aired from 1998 to 2010, teamed up with regular host Richard Madeley for the morning broadcast.
Fans were delighted to see the 66-year-old back on their screens, and they took to social media to praise her return to fronting a show.
Viewers flocked to X, formerly Twitter, to share their excitement, with many expressing their joy at seeing her back in action, branding it “refreshing”.
One penned: “Lovely to see Trisha Goddard #GMB.”
“Can't believe Trisha is on #gmb today. Brilliant,” another shared.
A third added: “It's refreshing to have Trisha on @GMB. Can't we have her as a regular co presenter for @susannareid100? The current male line up isn't great, bring in Trisha full time! #gmb.”
A viewer shared: “Lovely to see Trisha hosting this morning," while another person penned: "I love Trisha very much, she is a very talented journalist."
Goddard’s appearance as a GMB host comes a week after she appeared on the show to discuss her latest breast cancer diagnosis.
The presenter, who had recovered from breast cancer some years earlier after a 2008 diagnosis, revealed to Hello magazine in February that she had been diagnosed 19 months prior with secondary breast cancer, also known as stage four cancer, for which there is treatment but no cure.
In a candid conversation with Kate Garraway and Ed Balls, she opened up about why she had chosen to keep her diagnosis private from both her colleagues and the public until now.
“With CNN and my colleagues there, they didn’t know that I had no hair, that I had no feeling in my legs – from the treatment, because I had chemo every week for four and a half months.
“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 and 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’.”
Goddard also explained that her treatment started the morning after her wedding and said that her honeymoon was delayed for two years because of that.
Discussing why she does not want to be the “poster girl” for cancer she added: “It’s not who I am, it’s what I’m living with.
“And coming back to people with 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’.”
