Trinny Woodall
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Trinny Woodall (born Sarah-Jane Woodall on January 3, 1965, London, England), is a fashion journalist and TV presenter.
[edit] Biography
Woodall was educated at schools including Queens Gate School in South Kensington, London, and was nicknamed Trinny at school. She is the sister of Mark Woodall, co-founder of Climate Change Capital, a merchant banking institution specialising in green energy resources.
Woodall started work in the financial and marketing sectors before becoming involved in fashion. She wrote for the Daily Telegraph from 1996. She and Susannah Constantine were co-founders of Ready2shop.com, a dot-com fashion advice business. It ceased trading after running out of funding in November 2000 and was dissolved in July 2001.
She became prominent in the public view as the co-host with Constantine of the BBC style series What Not to Wear. They have also written several books as spin-offs from the series, including What Not to Wear, What You Wear Can Change Your Life and What Your Clothes Say About You. Woodall voiced a robot version of herself, with Constantine, in the science fiction series Doctor Who in the episode Bad Wolf (2005), which had the robots Trine-e and Zu-Zana presenting a deadly futuristic version of What Not to Wear.
Trinny and Susannah defected from the BBC to ITV, and start their new show, Trinny and Susannah Undress on 3 October 2006. What Not to Wear on BBC One has been taken over by Lisa Butcher and Mica Paris.
She is a trustee of the British charity The Chemical Dependency Centre.
[edit] Personal life
She is married to Johnnie Elichaoff, and has a daughter Lyla (born 28 October 2003); and is stepmother to Eliachaoff's son, Zak.
