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Trinny Woodall

Trinny Woodall

English fashion advisor and designer (born 1964)

"Trinny" redirects here. See also Trini (disambiguation).

Sarah-Jane Duncanson "Trinny" Woodall (born 8 February 1964)[1] is a British beauty entrepreneur, businesswoman, fashion and makeover expert, television presenter and author.

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According to an article published during September 2009 in The Independent newspaper, "Woodall (...) was nicknamed Trinny by a family friend, Frank Launder, the director of the St Trinian films, after being sent home from school aged five for cutting off another little girl's plait".[2]

Early life

Woodall is the youngest of six children,[3] including three half-siblings from her father's first marriage. Her father was a banker, while her maternal grandfather was Sir John Duncanson, controller of the British steel industry in the last two years of the war, who went on to become managing director of the British Iron and Steel Federation (BISF) in August 1945 and then managing director of Lithgows in 1949.[4][5]

When Woodall was five years old, she was sent home from school after cutting off another pupil's plait. A family friend, Ronald Searle, who created the St Trinian cartoons that inspired the later films,[6] likened her to a mischievous St Trinian girl, and the name Trinny stuck from then onwards. Woodall was educated at boarding schools from the age of six, which included Queen's Gate School in Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London. She also attended Baston School for Girls.[5] She has described one of the boarding schools as "cruel" and "sadistic".[5] She has connected a fear of being naked with the time she was made to stand totally unclothed in front of the other pupils as a punishment for having a water fight.[6] Woodall also attended boarding schools in France and Germany between the ages of twelve and fifteen.[4] During her school years, she felt overshadowed by her older sister who was the "star of the school", which prompted pupils to use Woodall to get to her sister.[4]

Career

Early career

Woodall did not go to university.[7]

"My father was in finance so I became an assistant at a commodities trading house..."[8]

She started as an assistant,[9] a secretary, at a commodities trading house, moved to the sales floor, and, later, was a commodities trader.[10]

"...in the Eighties Woodall worked in the City, where she traded commodities (coffee) before moving on to trading funds at Anglo American. In the early Nineties she left the City..."[11]
"There was a spell in rehab for alcohol and cocaine addiction, before a newspaper column with Constantine..."[12]

Woodall and Susannah Constantine first collaborated in 1996 on Ready to Wear, a weekly style guide for The Daily Telegraph which ran for seven years.[13] The style guide highlighted affordable high-street fashion, with the pair using themselves to demonstrate clothing that suited different figures.[5] Woodall assumed the role of stylist and made the duo's business decisions.[14]

Television

Woodall and Constantine became household names as co-hosts and fashion advisors for five series of the BBC television series What Not to Wear. They combined their fashion knowledge and their infamous straight-talking advice to improve the dress sense of the candidates selected for the show.

In 2002, Woodall and Constantine won a Royal Television Society Award for their work on What Not to Wear, in the category of best factual presenter.[15] The show itself was nominated for the Features Award at the BAFTAS in both 2002 and 2003.[16]

With What Not to Wear proving popular on BBC America, they frequently contributed as makeover and fashion experts on The Oprah Winfrey Show.[17]

After What Not to Wear, Woodall and Constantine transferred from the BBC to ITV, and Constantine began their new television show, Trinny & Susannah Undress..., in 2006.

Woodall has also made regular appearances giving fashion and beauty advice on shows such as This Morning, The Today Show and The Marilyn Denis Show.

Books

Woodall and Constantine have co-written numerous fashion advice books, which have sold over 3 million copies worldwide.[18] Their books have been translated throughout the world[19] and have placed them number one on both The Sunday Times best-seller list[20] and The New York Times best-seller list.[21]

Awards

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Television credits

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Personal life

Woodall married, former drummer turned music manager turned financial adviser, Jonathan Elichaoff in 1999.[22] They had a daughter about 2003.[23][24] They divorced in 2009 after two years of separation. The divorce financial settlement eventually led to a complex and novel legal case in 2016. Elichaoff became bankrupt before the divorce was finalised and the trustee in bankruptcy sought to void the settlement, after Elichaoff took his own life in 2014, and make Woodall responsible for the bankruptcy debts of about £300,000. The case proceeded to hearings in the High Court, where the claim was rejected and later leave to appeal was denied, as orders over a divorce settlement can only be made during their joint lives.[25][26]

"Charles Saatchi is dating style guru Trinny Woodall just six weeks after his quickie divorce from Nigella Lawson" (September 15, 2013)[27]
"Trinny Woodall split from Charles Saatchi" (March 30, 2023)[28]

See also

References

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    Nina Lakhani (20 September 2009). "Trinny Woodall: My last binge with three friends, all now dead. Makeover queen Trinny Woodall reveals to Nina Lakhani how alcohol and drugs once ruled her life, and how she fought back". The Independent. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
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    Ward, Victoria (10 November 2015). "Trinny Woodall's ex-husband told police officer he wanted to kill himself over 'terrible investments in oil'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
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    Hampson, Laura (15 November 2022). "Trinny Woodall pays tribute to late ex-husband Johnny Elichaoff: 'Forever in our hearts'". The Independent. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
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    Mathews, Jane (13 November 2016). "Trinny Woodall faces £300,000 divorce battle from beyond the grave". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
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