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UK TV: JADE GOODY’S FUNERAL TO AIR ON TELEVISION

April 9, 2009

The morbid reality show continues! We were forced in to watching her die and now this? Jade Goody’s funeral is to be shown on television. The final chapter in the late reality TV star’s life, Jade: With Love part 2, will be aired on LIVING tonight (Thursday April 9). It will be narrated by Kate Jackson, producer of the show and friend and bridesmaid to Jade, who died on Mother’s Day following her battle with cervical cancer. Kate said: “At first Jade said […]

UK NEWS: VETERAN TV HOST MICHAEL PARKINSON SAYS ‘JADE GOODY WAS A WRETCHED ROLE MODEL’

April 7, 2009

Parkinson shows no mercy! Via The Telegraph Jade Goody, the reality TV star who died last month of cervical cancer aged 27, represented “all that is paltry and wretched about Britain”, Sir Michael Parkinson has said. He told Radio Times: “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 […]

PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN LEADS JADE GOODY TRIBUTES

March 22, 2009

Via Digital Spy Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken of the courage and determination that Jade Goody showed in the months leading up to her death from cancer. The Prime Minister said he was “deeply saddened” by today’s passing of the 27-year-old, adding that her work to raise awareness of cervical cancer since her diagnosis last August would benefit thousands of women in the UK. TV personality Stephen Fry said on his Twitter mini-blog that Goody was a “kind of Princess D from the wrong side of […]

UK NEWS: JADE GOODY FUNERAL ‘TO BE TELEVISED’

March 16, 2009

Via Digital Spy Jade Goody has reportedly made plans for her funeral to be televised. The former Big Brother contestant has arranged for a large screen to be erected outside the church so that the service can be watched by fans. Goody is said to have chosen an oak coffin from the Royal Windsor Forest and wants to be taken in a convoy of seven cars from her home to the St. John The Baptist Church in Buckhurst Hill, according to Metro. […]

UK NEWS: JADE GOODY’S STORY ‘COULD BE MADE IN TO A HOLLYWOOD FILM’

March 9, 2009

A Hollywood film – What the hell????? And who have they got in mind to play Jade? Queen of playing British characters Rene Zellweger? I can’t.. I just can’t….. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Jade Goody’s publicist/agent Max Clifford said his client’s tireless fight against cervical cancer had attracted enormous interest and sympathy across the US entertainment community. He described a film about her life as a distinct possibility, adding: “The interest in Jade, not just in America but around the world, is rising every day. “Everyone […]

UK NEWS: OPRAH WINFREY AND LARRY KING BID FOR JADE GOODY INTERVIEW

March 1, 2009

According to today’s, Sunday Mirror, Oprah Winfrey and Larry King are both bidding to interview Jade Goody. They are apparently in talks with Jade’s agent and PR guru Max Clifford about the possiblity of her appearing on US television via satalite link up. Goody, amazed at all the international interest said, “This illness has made me famous all over the world”. ……………………………………. Wow……….. All I have to say is….You REALLY are on top of your game Max.

UK NEWS: TERMINALLY ILL REALITY TV STAR JADE GOODY FACES FURTHER SURGERY

March 1, 2009

Via BBC News Terminally-ill reality TV star Jade Goody is facing the prospect of more surgery to relieve her “awful pain”, her publicist Max Clifford has said. The 27-year-old Big Brother star is set to be admitted to the Royal Marsden Hospital, in London. Goody spent the weekend in a hospice following problems with her medication. The mother-of two has weeks to live after her cervical cancer, which was diagnosed last year, spread to her liver, groin and bowel. Mr Clifford said […]

UK NEWS: REALITY TV STAR JADE GOODY ‘HAS MONTHS TO LIVE’

February 14, 2009

Via BBC News Jade Goody has been told she has only months to live, her publicist Max Clifford has said. Mr Clifford said doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London broke the news to the former reality television star on Friday. The mother-of-two is now getting her affairs in order and making plans for her sons’ future, he added. Last week Goody underwent a successful operation to remove a cancerous tumour from her bowel. Mr Clifford said: “She was aware that […]

UK NEWS: FORMER REALITY TV STAR JADE GOODY SAYS CANCER HAS SPREAD

February 4, 2009

Former Big Brother star Jade Goody has confirmed the cervical cancer she is being treated for has spread to her bowel, liver and groin. The mother-of-two was diagnosed with the illness in August and has been receiving chemotherapy ever since. Her spokesman, Max Clifford, said the 27-year-old was “trying to put on a brave face” for her two children. She told The Sun: “I am devastated, frightened and angry. I don’t want to die, I have so much to live for.” Goody, […]