Jade Goody: Jack Attack, Sick Websites, Boiled Egg And Alain Bashung
JADE Goody Celebrity Cancer: Jack Attack, Sick Websites, Boiled Egg And Alain Bashung…
The Sun (front page): “HER DARKEST DAY”
• New op as cancer spreads
• Jack goes on trial for attack
Failing to add:
* Stacey gets off with someone else boyfriend on EastEnders
* England draw in Windies
* War in Afghanistan continues
* “Net firms ‘cash in on sick Jade’”
AN INTERNET firm has been accused of cashing-in on Jade Goody’s battle by selling signed copies of her autobiography for £1,000.
Essex-based Packet Post UK Ltd which sells on eBay, says it will donate £500 from each sale to Cancer Research.
But pals of the star say it is not enough. A source close to Jade said: “Some people are just sick.
“How can you take something so tragic and make money from it? They are just heartless, callous and greedy.
“They are making thousands from Jade’s illness and will probably make even more from her death.”
The Sun: 30p. Hey, it’s got kids. And an advert alongside the online story for Virgin broadband.
Daily Star (front page): “Jade: One last cuddle with my boys”
Daily Express (front page): “Emergency operation to relieve Jade’s pain”
Daily Mirror (front page): “JADE NEW OP TO STOP THE PAIN”
“Star uses gas and air mask for relief”
Newspost: “Jade Goody to dress up as boiled egg for sons Christening”
Cancer-stricken Jade Goody is planning to go for the Christening of her two sons dressed as a boiled egg.
Despite undergoing emergency surgery, the former Big Brother star says that nothing will stop her from partying with her boys Bobby, five, and Freddie, four.
Goody is determined to make it home and celebrate a fancy dress Christening for Bobby, five, and Freddie, four, by dressing as a boiled egg.
Daily Mail: “By the way…”
Cervical screening used to be offered to women from the age of 21. But the Department of Health, in its wisdom, recently decided to raise the age to 25…
Cervical cancer is not common in women under 20. This is because it is caused by a sexually transmitted virus, Human Papilloma Virus, which takes some time to wreak cancerous change after it has been contracted.
But what counts here is the age at which women become sexually active - and there is a trend for this to be younger and younger…
Is there?
A close friend and colleague did not meet her first boyfriend until the age of 21, but, within a year, at the time of her first cervical screening, had an aggressive abnormality which required significant laser treatment.
But if this same scenario had happened now, she would not have been eligible for screening and might have died. That is, of course, only one anecdote, so it is hardly major evidence. But she was a late starter on her sexual career compared to the young women of today.
Poor Jade Goody’s story has had an incredible effect on awareness of this ghastly disease among young women. It is a travesty that those who ask their doctors for a cervical screening test will be turned down simply because of their age, and not because of their risk.
This policy needs a re-think. It should be based upon the changing culture of sexual behaviour and not an arbitrary age limit.
Daily Telegraph: “Jade Goody and dark angel of French rock sign of times”
In a strange parallel, as I returned yesterday, France was gripped by an equal mix of admiration and morbid fascination for its own bald terminal cancer star - Alain Bashung.
That said, they may share the same illness, but there the similarities end.
Unlike Goody, who professes no particular talent, Bashung is the Rolls Royce of French rock - not the guns blazing Johnny Hallyday stuff but infinitely more sophisticated, brooding, self-deprecatory music closer to Serge Gainsbourg, with whom he has collaborated.
Sky News: “Cancer-Stricken Jade To Meet White Witch”
“I have a bowl of holy water that I wash and pray with and I’m even having a meeting with a white witch…” she said in her column in New! magazine.
“I’ve no idea what she’s going to do to me so I’ll have to let you know how I get on!”
Politics.co.uk: “CEP: If Jade Goody had been Scottish, Welsh or Irish and not English she might not be dying now”
Mr. J. Stanhope, member of the National Council of the Campaign for an English Parliament, speaking to its West Midlands members on Monday said that the tragedy of Jade Goody highlighted how the effects of devolution are tearing the United Kingdom apart, contrary to British claims that devolution is working. What was once a truly British National Health Service that served equally each of the four nations, has since devolution turned patient care into a post code lottery that depends on your county of residence, and is now four separate health services, with an English one that could be heading down the road to privatisation.
Referring to the tragic case of Jane Goody Mr Stanhope said that every young person between the ages of 20 and 25 living in England should be aware that their lives are not as important to the British establishment as those lives of the young people of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath the Prime Ministers constituency, or of the rest of those young people living in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Quoting Mr. Angharad Mair from Wales on Sunday, he said that if Jade Goody now 27 had lived in Wales she might not be dying now, and who knows how many young women are still alive because they were lucky enough to live in those countries.
In England you do not get invited for a cervical smear test until you are 25 – and by then it’s too late for any girl unfortunate enough to be suffering from cervical cancer at a younger age - as Jade is. In Wales the age of screening is 20 – as it is in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Older women again do better in Wales with screenings every 3 years until the age of 65, while in England women are only screened every 3 years until the age of 49.
Jade Goody - when cancer say so much…
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March 4th, 2009 at 10:38 am
too right - B&Q’s for the wrinklies!!!
March 4th, 2009 at 12:58 am
“SAY NO TO DIYING YOUNG!!!!!!!”
I am definitely too young for D.I.Y.ing
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Clifford. Clifford!
Glass coffin. Fourth plinth. Nelson’s Column.
Remember, I want my cut.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Jade f**king Goody. Fair enough she’s gonna die, but she’s still a dick. Everybody dies, and good people should be remembered for being good, and dicks should be remembered for…well…being dicks. The idea that she’s being brave is bollox, the only thing she knows how to do is sell the rights to her life to the highest bidder. And worst of all, we all seem to be lapping it up. Apparently the idea of making the moment of her death public is too far for her and her publicists. I think they should show it just so those of us who remember how much of a twat she was can really believe this whole farce is over and get some closure. She hasn’t raised cancer awareness, cancer has raised cancer awareness. Next people will be saying her behaviour on celebrity big brother raised awareness about the issue of racism in modern Britain. It’s just another situation beyond her level of control and reasoning. She’s made a shit load of money out of being famous for NOTHING and dying, so anyone else who can make a few quid out of it, good luck to them. On a cheerier note, as long as she donates more money to cancer research and care than it cost to try and treat her, we’ve still got a net profit.
The god of celeb has a sick sense of humour. Reviving her career via terminal illness has left me ambivalent, despising her more but sort of feeling I shouldn’t. If that wasn’t ethically confusing enough, now I’m starting to think that having lost all that weight, she’s actually would get it. Taking that twisted logic to its natural conclusion, she should do one of them amateur celeb-porn videos. Her at her most physically attractive, and making bag loads of media-whore dollars for her kiddies. I’d like to see them put that snuff video in ok magazine.
…crying shame, really.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Do some people not know what the upwards-pointing arrows are for on their keyboards? It seems to be Caps Lock or nothing for them.
Hehe, should have gone to school when typewriters were proper typewriters and you broke your little fingers during every typing lesson. Do they still teach typing or just txtng nowadays?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I wonder if she writes in caps?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I see brave Jade is still managing to write in ‘her’ column for New magazine.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I have’nt even had my tea… yet I still feel like puking….If anyone would care to join me in a group puke…feel free…I’ve started already
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
jade the bible says if you beleive you will see. the bible says in revelation 21:4 no more pain, no more death . those promesses can only came to pass in your life if you believe et you confesse that in your have with your children once jesus-christ will have ill you. that will be an act of faith. if i knew how to reach you i will have travel to come to you. i wrote to you last week left my fone number i have got the jesus-christ who will make you better and fullfill the number of your life. SAY NO TO DIYING YOUNG!!!!!!!
i have see you in a vision you was smiling and with your hair like they was before . do not wait get in touch with me
**********
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:38 pm
How many publicity stunts as Max Clifford got left to live?
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
I think the whole emotional blackmail thing that we are being subjected to has weighted it all unreasonably. She has been pleading she ’s doing it for her kids and the fairy tale wedding..
But you are right death is the great leveller , just some get flattened sooner than others.
But I shall keep my sympathies for people I know who are in an hopeless situation, whether its an impossible comparison or not.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
horses for courses, June - some of us are in the limelight and some are not - not everybody can have the sort of exposure she has had, whether she deserves it or not.
she’s dying and her kids will grow up without their mum - isn’t that tragic enough?
nobody would argue that there are people worse off, but what’s the point in making impossible comparisons…?
I thought death was the great leveller - it seems not.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Peter Mac,
Where have we heard that before…
dairy, it is supposed to be going to her kids future, but many parents become ill and hospitalised and broke and their families homeless.
Our neighbour has Parkinsons , diabetes, and last week was diagnosed with a throat cancer, he hasn’t been able to work for some years, he and his wife have a mentally handicapped child, and are staring destitution in the face.
This family is real, and its truly awful what is happening, but not being a ‘celeb’……
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
…isn’t it all supposed to be going towards her kids’ future….? I’m not going to argue with that….
let’s face it, with apparently less than 4 weeks to live, she’s not exactly going to benefit herself, is she….?
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
A source close to Jade said: “Some people are just sick. “They are making thousands from Jade’s illness and will probably make even more from her death.”
Whereas all the PR machine, the Tabloid press, and Mrs Tweed herself … ?
By the way, is she making a huge donation of the Wedding Pictures money to the Royal Marsden, or to the Hospice Movement.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Hopefully after some fair warning so those who remain less than adoring can leave the country.
Flood warning due to crocodile tears
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
and when can we expect a State funeral and two days of national mourning?
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:52 am
[...] Jade Goody’s egg: Something for everyone there. I’m bracing myself for the ineviitable CAPS strewn religionslaught. I wonder if they’ll take the time from advertising their church for free notice that Jade’s boys are the brave little soldiers to her boiled egg, and wonder if we are all being invited to partake of her yolky blood and albumen body in a massed con…substantiation. Posted at 9:52 am by Paul Sorene TrackBack | [...]
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
Something for everyone there. I’m bracing myself for the ineviitable CAPS strewn religionslaught. I wonder if they’ll take the time from advertising their church for free notice that Jade’s boys are the brave little soldiers to her boiled egg, and wonder if we are all being invited to partake of her yolky blood and albumen body in a massed con…substantiation.