Trinny Woodall

Woodall is the youngest of six children, including three half-siblings from her father's first marriage. Her father was a banker, while her maternal grandfather was Sir John Duncanson, Steel Controller for the British Ministry of Supply in the last two years of the Second World War. He 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.^[2][3]

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,^[4] 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.^[3] She has described one of the boarding schools as "cruel" and "sadistic".^[3] 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.^[4] Woodall also attended boarding schools in France and Germany between the ages of twelve and fifteen.^[2] 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.^[2]

Woodall married entrepreneur and former drummer Jonathan Elichaoff in 1999. They had a daughter about 2003.^[19][20] 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.^[21][22]

Carol Vorderman was involved in a feud with Constantine and Woodall in 2003. Vorderman commented harshly about the double-act, referring to them as 'Tranny and the Horse', based on their appearance, after they had called her an "overdone Eighties nightmare" and named Vorderman in their list of the 20 worst-dressed celebrities.^[23]

In 2013, Woodall began a relationship with Charles Saatchi. Saatchi had recently been divorced six weeks previously by ex-wife Nigella Lawson, following a notable incident of him strangling Lawson that came to light after being photographed by a paparazzi photographer.^[24][25] Woodall claimed to not know about the incident, despite it being widely publicised at the time.^[26] In 2023, after ten years, Woodall and Saatchi broke up, with Woodall citing she "felt alone" in the relationship, and that it felt "very good" to be single again.^[27]

• Trinny and Susannah