Jade Goody

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Where do you go after that one?

They're turning her life story into a film.

[ardmhachaabu]

Where do you go after that one?

They're turning her life story into a film.

Utterly bizarre.

[ardmhachaabu]

Where do you go after that one?

They're turning her life story into a film.

Utterly bizarre.

utterly pointless

Eh ?

[ardmhachaabu]

Very true noeldebrun. 

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Got this in a text:

Day 3 in Heaven: Jade is evicted.

[The Iceman]

Jade Goody's story is definitely a sad one - I feel sorry for anyone who suffers a slow death from a terminal disease or who has to leave a young family behind like that.  I don't think her life should be glorified though - but then the media always tends to give the mob what they want.
There is a worrying trend as has been pointed out in the downfall of your 'everyday' woman and who she looks up to and who her role models are.  It should be pointed out that although men's role models have been consistent, men have still been regressing in terms of behaviour and morals for the longest time.  It is the stark decent of women that shocks us all.

Are we worried as men because we don't want to be outdone? Or are we worried as men because some day you will wake up beside one of these women, married to them?
I think ultimately we all want to marry a good woman, very few of us would be happy to learn that our wives had over one thirty or even twenty sexual partners as would very few of us marry anyone with the reputation a lot of these 'ladettes' and 'muck savages' have made for themselves.  Are these type of women becoming the majority?

I think the likes of Paris Hilton and Jordan and even Jade Goody don't do us any favours but at the end of the day men need to take some responsibility for the decline of women.  We have encouraged it, supported it and enabled it to 'blossom' or 'wither' how ever you want to look at it.  We all want to marry a good woman, we will commit heart and soul to a good woman, but we'll watch the porno with the 'bad' woman, we'll look at the picture of the 'bit of rough' in Maxim and we'll cheer on the 'ladette' in the bar as she exposes her boobs to the boys.  

So let's not all take the high ground here and shake our heads at the women - we are as much if not more to blame......

[pintsofguinness]

Spot on iceman.

[rosnarun]

its a sad story alright . one which has made cancer and death a commodity and further demeaned life. the cynical way she went about the Christening set the tone for her immanent departure . the suspicion was that it was that she did it in order to have a church funeral which looks so much better in OK than a crematorium.
I know this is a nasty mean spirted posting but through  her life (and Other Z list celeb) every thing was for sale esp the truth .
to be honest I wont believe she really sick untill shes actually buried and appear with her own reality show With dereck Achorah on the Paranormal channel

[ONeill]

From Russell Brand's blog:

For Jade
March 27th, 2009

When my Mum first got cancer I must've been around the age Jade's eldest son is now. Too young, in fact, to properly comprehend what was happening, only old enough to sense the tingling presence of fear, the averted looks, the stifled, thin lipped sympathy and muddled, neighbourly compassion. My Mum, Thank God, did not die and whilst her cancer returned several times; each time more frightening for me as my innocence waned to be replaced with dread, she lives still, so I can but imagine the sad confusion of the two bereaved boys.

I knew their Mother, Jade Goody, not especially well, but Jade's defining characteristic was her easy warmth that ingenuously enveloped folk, so perhaps like many people I felt more engaged by her than normal and feel more saddened by her death than I ought. I dislike the fetishisation of grief that accompanied the death of Jade's forebear, The Princess of Wales, it makes me uncomfortable as I query its sincerity. Sentimentality is often called the unearned emotion and intrusive carnivals of public mourning unsettle me. In the case of Jade Goody however it is understandable to feel morose, she was a young mum from an awful background who got a break and shrewdly capitalised on it.

For a time we shared management and we met when she came to see several shows of mine at the Edinburgh festival about five years ago. We all hung out, me my Mum, Jade, some people from the agency and a few of my mates. She was a right laugh, she joined in with everyone and created a garrulous giddy vibe in bars and cars that elevated the perfunctory time between shows into something which retrospectively seems more special now than it did then. Most of all though I was impressed with how she formed an immediate and genuinely sweet bond with my Mother, chuckling and chatting with the effortless intimacy that strong yet tender women frequently conjure and which has umbrellad me from anxiety throughout my life. She also came on a few of my dopey TV shows in later years where she filled the room with her ebullience and wicked laugh connecting with the audience in a way that most skilled showman can only dream of.

One of the charges often levelled at Jade was that she was just a normal girl with no trade or practiced skills. Well people didn't care and our heroes are not prescribed to us, we have the right to choose them and the people chose Jade. Fame has long been bequeathed by virtue of wealth and birth and this was the first generation where it was democratically distributed by that most lowbrow of modern phenomena – Reality Television. She was a person who, I think due to her class always had the propensity to irk people. When Big Brother 3 made her famous she was vilified in the paper and bullied in the house but through her spirit she won people back round and became a kind of Primark Princess with perfumes and fitness videos and endless media coverage – because people were interested in her. They remain interested. One of my best friends, a woman in her mid twenties is genuinely heartbroken at the death of Jade, herself a Mother from a working Class background she obviously connects with this sad narrative in a way that she doesn't seem to with J-Lo or Jennifer Aniston or Posh Spice most likely because of Jade's authenticity and accessibility.

I was working on a Celebrity Big Brother spin off show when Jade returned to the house and through unschooled social clumsiness blundered into a whooped up race row. As I said at the time, the incident where Shilpa Shetti was poorly treated by a group of young women was not an example of the sickening scourge of racism but simply a daft lack of education. Jade was a tough girl but utterly lacking in the malice upon which true prejudice depends. The slick of spilled newspaper ink and the cathode conveyed H-bomb that followed this innocuous event was the real crime. Jade was made the focus of a debilitating wave of righteous loathing and condemnation, a gleefully indignant storm of trumped up wrath that served the cause of racial harmony not one iota; but that was never it's intention. The intention was sacrifice. Well now Jade Goody is no more. Claimed by cancer, a disease often brought on by extreme stress. When my mother was sick someone unkindly informed me that her illness was my fault, induced by my bad behaviour and for a long time I believed it.

I'm glad that Jade's death has been handled with saccharine mittens by the papers, she lived and died in the glare of their interest and doubtless benefited from it hugely at times. I recall her tearstained face pegged across some rag as she endlessly sought to be forgiven by the media her misconstrued conduct had so incensed and it made me a little angry. She wanted to be accepted, loved, redeemed, and now through her early death, she is. I hope some of the lessons of this modern Fairy Tale are learned, that the people who aspired to be like Jade observe the price she paid. I hope her sons are ok and that on some imperceptible level contrition is felt by the media that gave Jade Goody everything.
And I mean everything.

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Michelle Ryan is supposed to be playing her in the film

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Michelle Ryan is supposed to be playing her in the film

Was Rosanne not available?

[Minder]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7982970.stm

Look out for the fella walking in front of the hearse holding up a top hat and twirling a cane like Charlie Chaplin, i was just waiting for him to start tap dancing.............

[pintsofguinness]

Classy 

[AZOffaly]

I think that funeral director in front with the cane and top hat and all is an English/London olde tyme tradition.

Sad story, but it would be a sad story about any young girl, no matter what she was in her lifetime.

I agree with everyone who says the whole media thing is lowest common denominator stuff.

[ONeill]

Parky hits out at 'ignorant and puerile' Jade

Sir Michael Parkinson has launched a tirade against Jade Goody.

The veteran broadcaster told the latest issue of Radio Times that the late reality TV star represented "all that is paltry and wretched about Britain."

He said: "Jade Goody has her own place in the history of television and, while it's significant, it's nothing to be proud of. Her death is as sad as the death of any young person, but it's not the passing of a martyr or a saint or, God help us, Princess Di.

"When we clear the media smoke screen from around her death, what we're left with is a woman who came to represent all that's paltry and wretched about Britain today.

"She was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile. Then she was projected to celebrity by Big Brother and became a media chattel to be exploited til the day she died."

His comments come just days after Jade Goody was laid to rest following a funeral that drew comparisons with that of Princess Diana. Thousands of mourners lined the streets and threw flowers as the hearse made its way to the service in Buckhurst on Saturday.

http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/blog/article/138886/