{"id":25248,"date":"2025-04-16T16:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25248\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:53:11","slug":"trisha-goddards-unflinching-bravery-shows-big-brother-continues-to-deliver-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25248\/","title":{"rendered":"Trisha Goddard’s unflinching bravery shows Big Brother continues to deliver | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been a vigorous cheerleader for\u00a0 Big Brother<\/a> ever since I entered its hallowed portals in the first ever celebrity version in 2001. I\u2019ve argued, were he living at this hour, Shakespeare would pitch up as a BB housemate, eager to glean the mysteries of human behaviour unleashed within.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also suggested George Orwell would have been a fascinated fan, that Chaucer would re-write The Canterbury Tales to delve deeper into the TV format… and that Mickey Rourke would wander into the house, dazed and confused. Oh wait, he just did! Never did I expect to hear Marcus Bentley say \u201cTrisha and Patsy are in the garden talking about Trisha\u2019s cancer<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those who doubted the show\u2019s power should hang their heads in shame. Former talk show host\u00a0Trisha Goddard<\/a>\u00a0is doing something remarkable live on television and Big Brother\u2019s bosses at ITV are facilitating her heroic feat.<\/p>\n

Trisha\u2019s been diagnosed with stage-4 terminal breast cancer. She knows that her days are numbered.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of spending them with her beloved husband she\u2019s braving the cameras to show sufferers and their families, even in the throes of extreme illness, that life is for living.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not forget just a few years ago most Brits didn\u2019t dare utter the word \u201ccancer\u201d in public. The \u201cBig C\u201d struck terror into all our hearts. A diagnosis felt like a death sentence.\u00a0\u00a0We dreaded even thinking of\u00a0cancer<\/a>. We knew nothing about living with the disease, surviving and thriving.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t talk about survival rates, remission or breakthrough drugs. We were far too scared. The magical medical breakthroughs of last 15 years have redrawn the cancer picture. For many, a diagnosis now means treatment, followed by a long, happy and fulfilling life.<\/p>\n

Brave, beautiful Trisha Goddard could be called one of the unlucky ones. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer<\/a> in 2008 and had clear scans for more than ten years. In 2022 she was found to have metastatic secondary breast cancer.\u00a0Her mission, though, is to show her vitality, zest for new experience, sense of humour and mischief-making are as vibrant as ever.<\/p>\n

She is snatching an adventure from the jaws of death. She is perfectly imperfect, cheeky and exhausted, sometimes in pain, but the very quintessence of herself.<\/p>\n

A remarkable example of courage, guts and gusto, and brings cheer and hope in the face of hopelessness. The Big Brother<\/a> social experiment continues to deliver.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve been a vigorous cheerleader for\u00a0 Big Brother ever since I entered its hallowed portals in the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[1456,15488,1378,312,15490,77,15489,1741,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-25248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-big-brother","9":"tag-big-brother-2023","10":"tag-breast-cancer","11":"tag-celebrity-big-brother","12":"tag-courage-and-hope","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-terminal-breast-cancer","15":"tag-trisha-goddard","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114348687646261397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}