Jade Goody’s Celebrity Cancer: Live Updates
JADE GOODY’S Celebrity Cancer: The boys, the bravery and the tears…
MIRROR (front page): “I CAN’T TELL MY BOYS,” says Jade Goody.
Maybe there’s just no telling Jade’s boys, who as well as being impossible to instruct are also unable to read front-page news headlines and acres of news about brave Jade?
Here are Jade’s boys now, off to buy some sweets and comics from the newsagents. Hey look, kids, there’s mum on the cover of the paper.
Boys: “What does it say Mr, Anglo-Asian Newsagent, sir?”
Newsagent (wipes tear): “JADE GOODY IS FANTASTIC!
Boys: “Yaaaaaaaay”
Thankfully, Jade is leaving behind a video diary of her battle with cancer, courtesy of Living TV. Heartening to know that should it not go well for Jade, the boys will able to see and her her suffering.
Jade’s mum: My girl’s cancer anguish
Kate Mansey - ‘Mummy will come to my school play on Thursday won’t she?’ - What Jade’s son Bobby, five, asked his gran”
Granny:
Jackiey Budden revealed that Jade, 27, has not been able to see her sons Bobby and Freddie, aged five and four, for almost two weeks.
And she said Jade is determined to be well enough to see little Bobby perform in his school play on Thursday.
Jackiey said: “Freddie’s too young to know what’s going on, and we are determined to try and keep it like that.”
Ignorance is bliss, says Goody.
“But Bobby’s got an idea things aren’t good. He asked me if mummy will come to his school play on Thursday.
“I looked at his little face and said ‘She is still quite poorly, darling. I don’t know if she will be at the play, but your Nan and Daddy will be there.’ He just looked at me and nodded. Fingers crossed she’ll get there to see him.”
NOTW (front): “Jade: Keep the cameras rolling.”
Can we put the footage on Newsround, you know, for the boys?
BRAVE Jade Goody has won the support of the nation as she continues her battle against cancer.
The Big Brother star is facing a grim fight for life after doctors said her disease had spread and is pinning her hopes on new “miracle drug” Hycamtin.This week we are showing previously unseen - and unedited - footage of Jade, 27, talking about her battle, with a new clip every day.
In today’s candid video the mother-of-two tells our columnist Carole Malone about the moment she knew months of chemotherapy had robbed her of her hair - and how her son reacted.
You can post your messages of support to the star below.
The NOTW has daily videos of Jade crying.
EXPRESS: “JADE’S PLEA ON CANCER SCREENING”
In a heartbreaking plea, the former Big Brother contestant begged other victims to take up their offers of smear tests.
She told them: “Don’t ignore the symptoms I had.
“If you’re not happy with the first diagnosis, see someone else. Don’t leave it too late.”
And take a camera crew along. And get an agent. You must, must, must get an agent before your smear.
STAR: “JADE’S £10M GOOD DEED”
BRAVE Jade Goody is to be a £10million lifesaver.
Brave Jade – you know, the one who’s always crying…
But despite the spread of the disease, 27-year-old Jade is determined to help raise £10million for cancer charities.
A family source said: “She’s going to fight – both for her own life and to save the lives of others.
“She wants to do what she can and use her image to help make millions pour into charity coffers. She’d love to help raise £10million.”
So she’s hasn’t actually raised the millions yet, but she’d like to. Wow!
MIRROR: “Could I have cancer like Jade?”
Dear Dr Cath,
I have heard on the news about Jade Goody’s cancer. Now I’m worried. I’m 23 and have asked my GP for a smear test but they refused because I’m too young. How can this be right? Jade is only 27 and, sadly, she’s suffering.
Yeah…
Dear reader,
The news about Jade is very sad and my thoughts are with her and her family. She is very unlucky as her situation isn’t common. Cervical cancer is rare in women under 20 and there are problems with smear tests on young women giving false positive results.But if you have symptoms which could suggest cervical cancer, such as bleeding between periods or after sex, pain having intercourse or a smelly discharge, your doctor may give you a smear test regardless of your age.
So you could be Jade, or not… Fingers crossed.
THE INDEPENDENT: “Joan Smith: Jade’s history may have cost her life itself - The tragedy of Ms Goody reflects ill on us all”
Murder?
I’ve hardly ever seen Jade Goody on television. But I’ve been aware of her since she first appeared on Big Brother – and I’ve always felt uncomfortable about her.
She has that affect on people.
For years, Ms Goody was treated as a semi-house-trained pet, willing to perform without fully comprehending the malicious pleasure she evoked.
Jade Kebab.
But she was never going to marry a Wykehamist and open a health food shop, was she?
Dunno. What you offering. We’ll pass it on to Jade.
Now we know that Prince Charles calls a black friend “Sooty” and the Queen thinks it’s OK to sell golliwogs, the furore over Ms Goody’s behaviour towards the Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty looks like double standards. While every possible excuse is trotted out for the racism of the upper classes, working-class people are torn to shreds.
Jade Goody is Prince Charles? Well, now we see it. Yes, go on…
I always thought Ms Goody’s boorish attitude to Ms Shetty was more about class than race…
Go back to your own Stately Home, you Hooray Henry Silver Service Poppadom In Aspic!
The lack of education that made her a laughing stock seven years ago has shortened her life, and you would have to be very callous indeed not to see that as a tragedy.
Shame on you!
OBSERVER: “Are only the chattering classes allowed to make money from a fatal illness?”
Yes. No. Can you repeat the question..? Jenni Murray knows:
Am I the only member of the middle, chattering classes to find Jade Goody utterly magnificent?
Yes. It is just you.
I do not recall similar disapproval when those same chattering classes were faced with the outpourings of one of their own. John Diamond, Nigella Lawson’s late husband, wrote columns and made a TV programme as he dealt with throat cancer.
Who he?
Ruth Picardie and Dina Rabinovitch gave us searing accounts of facing terminal breast cancer. Liz Tilberis, the former editor of Vogue, who’d often joked about being a size 14 and too big for the tiny Dior samples she was often sent, retained her sense of humour as ovarian cancer took its toll. She recommended the cancer diet, having achieved the required size 8, and vowed to meet her maker suitably attired. I wrote about my diagnosis and mastectomy. Sympathy poured from every direction.
Anyone?
But it was Miles Kington who really put his finger on it in his book How Shall I Tell The Dog?. His tumour was in the pancreas and he decided that he ‘would make cancer pay its way‘.
Nope, sorry Jenni. Looks like its only you who’ve heard of any of them.
TIMES: “Jade Goody, a broken toy we made and want no more”
India Knight has had the stuffing knocked out of her (if only):
I don’t know which aspect of Jade Goody’s hopeless-seeming battle with cancer is most depressing.
Come on, India, You’ve got another 300 words. Think!
The Jade phenomenon exists because we created it – because we found it interesting and mad and sort of hilarious: ha ha, thick fat bird from Bermondsey, ha ha, showbiz folly, ha ha, isn’t it gruesomely fascinating and what can it possibly mean?
Goody isn’t rich or famous because she won the lottery: she’s rich and famous because we bought all those papers and magazines and ghosted books with her on the cover, because we watched her television series, because we cheered when she was good and booed when she was bad, because we sat around discussing her over lunch. Now she’s dying, she’s making us all feel bad so we want her to go away, like a broken toy that’s stopped being fun.
Wishing death on Jade. Really..?
It’s too late now. We’re stuck with her and she is stuck with us, careering wildly down the hill waiting for the crash.
Can I have new peddle car, mummy?
Jade Goody - a life in columns…
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March 15th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Jade
You are someone to be really proud of. Your strength is unbelievable. Your family must be realy proud of you. I am a mum also, my children are now 20 and 18. You have made me realise that i am very lucky to see them at that age, I hope you will be able to read my message to you, but if not, I hope your mum will. It will make her realise how lucky she was having you as a daughter, giving her two lovely grandsons and a Daughter she is really proud of.
I dont ever expect a reply from this e mail jade, but I hope your mum will read this and get some comfort from this.
With all my love and loads of tears that I am crying right now,
Amanda
March 7th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
There’s no chance of that, Living TV will be showing repeats for years
March 7th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
hey i watched ‘Jade’ the story of Jade’s battle with cancer and it got me thinking , what would i do in that condition ? so i decided to dedicat this note to her and i bet none of us could do as well as her . S he may have had a tough time on ‘ Big Brother ‘ but everyone has their bad points and it is history now ,so although she has got cancer i no we will never forget her !!!
February 28th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
It’s the Jade Goody Death cult
February 28th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
[...] reader writes on the Jade Goody death cult: I sincerely hope a professionally drawn up healthy trust fund results from this. As for the rest [...]
February 28th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I sincerely hope a professionally drawn up healthy trust fund results from this. As for the rest of the carnival; from her choice of agent, the (de)press releases (that I don’t read, heck I only managed about two and a half lines of this article before I tuned out and started drooling..more), doubts as to whether the meeja is gunna let ‘em be after she’s laid to rest, the not so vague uneasiness I feel about millions of rubber neckers tuning in to watch the lass wither and die and the short hop, skip and post apocalyptic program line up this type of thing could herald, bringing Death Race 2.0 (or at least Russian style news programs) to the prime time ghouls for whom the televised assisted suicides and occasional broken bone in their cage match of choice just doesn’t hit the spot anymore…
February 28th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
I like Shilpa better than Jade,Shilpa has class.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
I would like to get a message across to jade and her carers! I know every cure has probably been looked at, but I would still like to bring this to her attention for some hope, its a web site that seems positive. I think it would be worth a try looking at it. I brought 3 boys up on my own and hate the thoughts of her boys not having their mum as she lives so much for them.
This is the website I think is worth a try….
http://bellatryx.blogs.ie/2006/05/29/cure-for-cancer-brazilian-medicinal-plants/
Love Pauline x
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:19 am
Let us pray…
.by “us” …I mean “them”…not me.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:55 am
John 11:35 Jesus wept.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:19 am
First of all I wish you all the very best for Sunday Jade,you are an amazing young lady,you are brave,selfless,and beautiful inside and out.My heart goes out to you and the despair you must feel inside,keep thinking of your boys and what you need to do for them and it will keep you focused my darlin xxxxxxxxx
February 18th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
I think it is a f…… disgrace that peopel are saying it was a publicity stunt…just stop and think for a minute if you where dying…never gonna wake up one day soon..and remember you only live once…so scared of dying knowing you havnt got long left and so young…and not gonna see your kids grow up..unless there is a such thing as heaven never gonna see the people you love again…do you honestly think you would give a shit about the public or pull a publicity stunt for what????
To be more famous..oh wait a minute she is dying so why on earth would she care…even if this girl did right or wrong in her life..(.which to me no more than the rest of us) who on earth deserves to be treated like this…a dying animal would not even get this abuse…not only do I think you people that critize this poor young lady have no respect but also dont for yourselves..what if this was your partner? your friend? sister? Mother? Wouldnt we all think twice!!!
February 17th, 2009 at 5:58 am
THE BOYS!
CAPS!
It’s like Princess Di back from the grave only to kick the bucket again.
In real life - this is shocking and horrible and I feel so sorry for Jade and her family.
In showbiz life - what a story!!!
February 17th, 2009 at 2:13 am
JADE! MY THOUGHTS ARE WITH YOU AND YOUR 2 BOYS EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY.
I AM A MUM OF TWO MYSELF AND CANNOT IMAGINE JUST WHAT YOU ARE GOING THREW,PLEASE TRY AND BE STRONG AND BEAT THIS .
YOUR A GOOD MOTHER THOSE BOYS ADORE YOU..
TAKE CARE BABE XXXXXXX
KATHY
BELFAST NORTHERN IRELAND
February 17th, 2009 at 12:57 am
I Thank God for science and discoveries which has allowed learned physicians to know and treat patients of their illness, and technology has advance so much that expert can with their machineries dictate the forthcoming, and outcome of patience illness, in this light, I respect doctors and medical precisionist. Not just for their effort put into the medical world, but also for the great advancement in attending to the challenging situation of the countless patients they attend to on daily bases. Such as the doctors who have been on the case of Jade Goody, They may be right to give or predict to some extent the amount of time left for someone to live, but; however, the prediction is subject to change, and this is why?
The creator of Life is God, and he alone can give life to anyone condemn to death justly and unjustly, he has done it before in the past and he is doing it now in some live that you may not see or ear of, and I know he will do it again only if there is trust and believe in him that he can do it in the life of Jade Goody, the holy book, (Holy Bible) has never lied, can not lie and will never lie, it is written that Jesus raised the dead, even Lazarus (John 11:1-46) that was already dead, let alone someone who still have breath in her nostril. It may sound ridiculous, well that is what God specialize in doing, ridiculous things, and as such the situation of Jade Goody will be as one of the ridiculous thing that God is going to do to amaze the world and make them know that he only is God and he is worthy of our praise, he specialize in the impossible and seek interest in matters above human understandings, he only can and will make Jade Goody live and not die.
All that is needed is for , both friend, family believers and even those who do not believe to just pray for this young mother of two boys that God in his infinite love to show mercy on de Goody and spare her life. And it will be done because Jesus Christ said, “whatsoever ye shall ask in my name I will do it” (John 14:13)
I pray that the Lord Jesus full of wonders and miracles, save Jade Goody to the glory of the God of Israel, and to the praise of his name. Amen
N.B- Pray for Jade Gioody.
February 16th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
i think you are a very brave girl, and will probably save the lifes of many, i wish you well, dont give up hope no matter what the doctor say, be positive, marionx
February 16th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
I hope people leaving messages hear think of her 2 children, also no one , no decent human being would wish this on ant one, i think the girl is doing what she thinks is best for her children, and who knows she may save numerous lives, doing this, i for one wish her all the best and sincerely hope she recovers, no matter what the doctors say, dont give up jade will pray for you and your children, i think what you are doing is very brave, and wish you well, not many people could do what you are doing, and i believe it will make many more young girls , take a second look, all the very best Marion, you do what you want , if it makes you feel good,marion x
February 9th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
keep on living…
February 9th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
hiya jade i just wont to wish you well and realy hope you can beat this keep your chin up but i know that is hard for you love you jade and i am thinking of you carol barker
February 9th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Thanks Karen….
February 9th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Percy
If you want to keep the story rolling - gossip about anything you like.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Edit…”morons”
February 9th, 2009 at 10:04 am
I missed the Anthea Years… how gruesome….
February 9th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Dear Karen…can we still “gossip” about media manipulation & exploitation of morons?
…or can we add this to our campaign manifesto to ban the “bullshit”?
February 9th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Bring back Anthea Turner to Anorak?
But we need to keep JG as a good example of a bad example
February 9th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Who knows….if “we” are succesful “our” campaign might spread to the rest of the media too…..although I think it’s a bit late for that…the “horse” has already bolted.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Karen…you are so sweet. Lets start a campaign to keep Jaded Goodies off Anorak…I’m with you all the way….any ideas for a good name for our Campaign, Karen?
February 9th, 2009 at 9:44 am
That was a general ‘you’….
February 9th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Gossip isn’t illegal - if you don’t like it - it’s easy enough to avoid. Don’t watch living or read tabloids or Heat.
(I see Jade on Anorak more than I see her anywhere else).
February 9th, 2009 at 8:54 am
The photo at the very top of the page ?
“Fiona”, from Shrek. No wonder people like her so much.
February 9th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Lindsey
It depends on whether you see illness as punishment, some don’t.
Take some evil shit like Hitler who enjoyed great good health…..