Trisha Goddard has spoken out after becoming the second housemate to be evicted from this year’s Celebrity Big Brother, shedding light on her experience behind the scenes. The veteran broadcaster and cancer campaigner was eliminated following a public vote that also saw EastEnders star Patsy Palmer and Coronation Street ’s Jack P. Shepherd put at risk.
While Trisha admitted she was “sad” to leave, she made it clear that there was more to her time on the show than audiences might have seen on screen. In a video she shared to Instagram, Trisha began: “As you can see – maybe you can’t – I’m out of the Big Brother house and I’m in a hotel room. Thank you to all of you who supported me.
“I really do appreciate it and no, I didn’t want to leave, I was upset to leave. But you know what? As soon as I got in the studio for the late-night live show afterwards, that was kind of familiar territory.”
“I’d seen my daughter, talked to my kids, talked to my darling husband, and it took me like – okay, I’m fickle – five minutes to get over it,” she added with a smile.
In a follow up caption, Trisha warned fans not to rush to make judgements about personalities on the reality show as viewers don’t see everything that happens in the house.
She wrote: “Even though it was tough; remember what you see is 12-hour plus days whittled down to 40 minutes, so obviously there’s a lot you didn’t see…”
The 66-year-old then went on to thank her medical team, the Big Brother care staff and production team, and her housemates for helping to take care of her health needs during her time in the house.
She added: “It’s enabled me to speak up for the 3.4 million of us LIVING with cancer and our families, so that we all have access to coordinated services that treat us in accordance with what we want to do with our lives – no matter if we have 20 years, two years, or even two months.”
Trisha was diagnosed with cancer for the second time in 2023, and has been receiving palliative care since then. She previously battled breast cancer in 2008.
The former talk show host used her platform to speak about what it is like living with stage four breast cancer, and has made it clear that her time on the ITV show served a bigger purpose in her eyes.
She told Instagram followers: “There’s 3.4 million people in the UK living with cancer plus their friends and family. I was in there to show that with complete support, with the right support, you can live your life to the full. You don’t have to be so afraid of dying that you forget how to live.”
While in the Big Brother house, she opened up to fellow housemate Angellica Bell about how the show became an unexpected break from the constant mental weight of her diagnosis.
“It meant a lot, it’s respite, it’s a holiday from having to think about cancer,” she said in one episode. “Everything was cleared and I could be like a child again… Heavy subjects came up now and again, but it was just a break.”
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