Jade Goody’s International Celebrity Cancer
JADE Goody has rarely been more popular, now that she’s ill.
“Jade: My cancer has spread,” announces the Sun on its front page.
Cynics might point out that its spread from being a private matter between Jade and Indian telly viewers to the tabloids’ front page.
But that’s if you’re a cynic. If you have a beating heart you will worry for Jade and fear the worst for her. And if you can’t work out that a young woman with cancer is something awful, the Sun will tell you about her bravery, her tears and her little boys.
It will tell you of the “BRAVE STAR’S DEVASTATION.” It hears a source says that Jade went to the doctor “obviously hoping for good news.”
Such is the insight.
And the facts: Jade’s cancer has spread to her liver, bowel and groin.
“I’m in a nightmare,” says Jade. Grim news.
But don’t worry, the Sun doesn’t want to you to be part of the bad dream. There will be no appeal or commemorative poppadom for Jade Goody. All you are invited to do is stare and sympathise.
Jade is the tabloids’ emergency story. She straddles the Mirror and Sun like a Club 18-30 rep on an oiled up inflatable goat. And the papers keep shouting that she’s about to slide off.
It’s a big dose of mourn porn. And you’re all invited to watch. And there is no need to feel queasy at your rubbernecking - Jade says the money she’s making from her cancer will go to her chidlren.
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February 5th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
nobody here is panicking, me - but you seem to be getting yourself in a right state about it, for some reason…..
February 5th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Who said anything about cancer being deserved? Anyway, she has her miracle cure, so you can all stop panicking.
February 5th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I am always freaked out when people embark on the deserving/undeserving riff when it comes to cancer, or starvation, or phosphorous munitions; we seem to have absorbed the Poor Laws only too well. I have no interest in Big Brother or Reality TV, or any other cheap media filler, but if Jade Goody or anyone else thinks s/he can make some money for his/her children by displaying their bald heads then I cannot conceive that it is anyone’s business but theirs.
Provided I don’t have to look at them, of course…
February 5th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
C&C
My maxim is ‘I wish others all that they wish me’.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I can’t even begin to consider a comment to me’s nasty posting.
I’m a firm believer in ‘Do unto other as you would have done unto yourself….’
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February 5th, 2009 at 11:52 am
some awfully old Popes around….
I tend more to Mother Nature rather than Mother Church.
Every Sunday a local school bussed their pupils into Church, some in the congregation smiled and talked with them, some shunned them and some blessed themselves whilst hurrying past. The local school was a ‘Home’ for Downs children. There but for Fortune….
February 5th, 2009 at 11:37 am
it is at such times that I think you - or certainly I - begin to question the existence of this Deity, enraged or benevolent - it has always seemed to me that there is always some sort of convenient theological excuse as to why the good die young…..
February 5th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Its a strange thought about deserving illness or not?
Is it punishment or retribution by an enraged Deity?
Or is it pure bad luck? I have a dog here who has been a model of goodness all his long life, his worst deed being muddy pawmarks on upholstery, he brought joy and comfort and smiles to many in his work as a PAT dog,and he has held my heart for many a long year. He is now ill.
There is a relative who has wilfully caused misery for many of us, yet she is hale and hearty at 95.
I console myself that its genetic or luck of the draw
February 5th, 2009 at 10:57 am
…so because according to you she’s “pondlife”, you think it doesn’t matter that a 27-year old woman has cancer??
presumably you have a selective process of your own for deciding who deserves it and who doesn’t?
I seem to recall that that sort of thinking got a lot of people into trouble about 60-odd years ago….
I don’t particularly like Jade Goody’s persona, as portrayed over the last few years by the media, but it doesn’t mean that I would wish her (or her family) any harm - I don’t know the girl, but cancer is something to be feared by everyone and could happen to any of us at any time in our lives, let alone at such a young age….
save your vitriol for something that really does merit it, me…..
February 5th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Don’t dare question the press coverage instigated by Goody’s spin doctors on the DSBB forum. I have been banned for doing so, despite stringent efforts to avoid libellous comments.
They are currently deleting all but goodwill messages.
Hard for me - though cancer is a terrifying end to a life, she’s pondlife, what’s to miss?
Had she not existed, a young girl wouldn’t have had her ear bitten off, Sophie wouldn’t have tried to take her own life, Rik Waller wouldn’t have been subjected to bullying witnessed internationally & we wouldn’t, as a nation, appear quite as bad as the opinion Jade has obtained for all of us with her vitriolic racism, globally exposed. Is she well?….is she unwell?…how unwell is she? How are we ever to know, whilst she remains unaccountable for conflicting press statements?
Is the tumour ike a small tomato…a large tomato…. a rugby ball? Is it there at all? I hope not & doubt that it is so. Who’s fault is that?
Goody’s, she doesn’t refute sensationalism, nor do her spokespersons. Donate to a celebrity orphan….the kids wil have their dad, IF anything happens to the pondlife that currently has custody. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
February 4th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
I am no expert, by any means, on human behaviour. I have little or no knowlege of this young woman, except the brief mention by my kids that she was on that awful big brother show, but nevertheless, I feel very very sad by the media coverage especially as it has obviously got her approval. Does she have a partner? Are her kids fathers around? I agree with a previous post that if all she has to raise money for the future of what may soon be her orphans - then by all means go for it if the press are up for it. But - what sort of mother would want the lasting images for her children to refect on would be awful images shown in the media. In time, if she does not survive - all memories except these very public ones will fade and the children will be left with thoughts of a mother who at the end, when dignity should be the most important thought - she is flaunted in the most awful way for the whole world to see. My advice to her would be to put her faith in the doctors, spend as much time as possible with her children - and if by any chance she should pull through this terrible ordeal - learn from it and fade into the background with the folk who really matter - no parade infront of ones who couldnt give a damn
February 4th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
…unless her story proves there is a link between eating kebabs & cervical cancer….
It could make a great story for The Sun & science
February 4th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
I agree with June in that the jaded Goodies story has taught us nothing new about cancer…cervical or otherwise…but it has taught us plenty about the cancer of celebrity mourn porn and the press….
February 4th, 2009 at 11:30 am
The other side of the coin that made me think…. (viewpoint of someone of a similar age to Jade) :
‘If I had two young children and I knew I was most likely going to die then I’d haul in every penny I could while I could to secure their future without me. If photos of her bald added twenty grand to the pot then good for her’.
maybe the viewpoint changes with age? I do have sympathy for her and wonder if she is on some sort of ‘displacment activity’. ie, doing everything to avoid thinking about it?
February 4th, 2009 at 11:22 am
…that it affects young as well as old, famous as well as anonymous - nothing we didn’t know before but whoever has got this disease, whether you like them or not, it is a serious matter - it could happen to any of us at any time.
there is nothing unusual about Jade being so much in the media regarding even this most private matter - I agree with June that it should be private, but ever since this girl came to public recognition, her entire car-crash of a life has been for public consumption. it would seem odd now, even in the face of something as awful as cancer, if she were to completely disappear from public life…? and if she can screw the media out of money which will provide for her kids’ future as a result, then I say, go for it Jade - they are ultimately the fools for paying the price and she now has nothing to lose….
February 4th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I read , until I lost interest, that she had had treatment in her teens for cervical cancer, common sense and medics would tell her after two children to be rechecked…..
February 4th, 2009 at 11:06 am
true, and there should be.
‘What have we learned about cervical cancer from this charade’
i think those that have followed jades story in the mags would know stuff such as she had had a smear and didn’t take the results seriously.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:56 am
But sam there is nothing about the treatment, there is nothing about the symptoms, and in this country we are encouraged to go for smear tests.
What have we learned about cervical cancer from this charade?
February 4th, 2009 at 10:30 am
june, i disagree with the idea jane’s illness should be kept out of the papers, i don’t think there’s enough written about cervicial cancer and how deadly if undetected it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_cancer
February 4th, 2009 at 10:15 am
..what will repell…is shameless oversell
February 4th, 2009 at 10:15 am
The way its being thrust in peoples faces is revolting, its just pure mourn porn. I feel the media should leave JG alone to deal with her illness in peace and privacy, its just a nasty peep show.
The tragedy would be the same for any woman with young children, but its her personal tragedy whether she has children, or not or whether she is a ‘celeb’ or not.
There is a time for a brave face,but the media is turning it into a clowns mask, and she is letting them.
My elderly mother has survived cancer twice, I also had a young cousin who didn’t, but her grown children now cherish their memories of their mother.
February 4th, 2009 at 9:48 am
…..as for whether Jaded Goodies repells me?…the answer is…
…I will wait and see how the papers write her story….but so far….Jade is like a cancer…in that she is growing on me.
February 4th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Cancer is a part of most peoples life & death story….mine included…it is very real…
but when it is sold with celebrity….it becomes greedy….and has no respect for peoples privacy.
February 4th, 2009 at 9:37 am
But there must be so many people out there with a similar illness who just have to cope.
It would be interesting to know just how many people are repelled by the public lament. Or is being publicly ill the new talent?
February 4th, 2009 at 9:26 am
..I feel I must add,out of fairness, that I do have sympathy for Jaded Goodies and wish her a well and happy ending to her Celebrity Cancer story….at the very worst….it is another payday for Jaded & the Journalists
February 4th, 2009 at 9:22 am
I too am fighting cancer………….i have been for nearly 8yrs !!!!! it affects not just the person who has it but the intire family………..she may be an ass but to think a young mother (im a father of 2 and im 34 now) has the ability to have a voice…..to create awarness that such things can happen to anybody regarding of age or how she earns a living is a good thing !!!! however to think what she is going through makes me sad ! i am on borrowed time !!!!!!!!!!! i have said goodbye to my beautiful wife and children too many times now !!!! i feel so sorry for this young girl………..good luck Jade ! we need to give her a break !
February 4th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I have no sympathy for sickly celebrities that self promote and sell themselves, shamelessly, for profit … paid by the press to publish their P.R. for profit.They deserve no P.R. ivacy for the crap they sell through the paps.
My sympathy is for the paying public ,who are so often pounced on by the press ponces to publish their private grief and suffering …sold back to them as entertainment…. this is the real mourn pourn….and these poor people don’t even get paid for it or have a say in what the papers play.
I have been raped, by the press in the past… that they did it for their readership…and profitted from my loss. ..selling my story.
Believe me…it is not pretty…but when it happens to a sold out celebrity….then I am sorry June…I have little sympathy.
February 4th, 2009 at 8:55 am
…or only allow papers that publish pictures of Lily Allen on the front ..and back pages.
February 4th, 2009 at 8:54 am
There’s a time for privacy, and this is it.
February 4th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Celebrity Cancer….is now a new illness…..and you can catch it from reading too many tabloids….or appearing in them….there should be a government health warning on these things….or better still….ban them.