Jade Goody’s Two Minute Silence
JADE Goody: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s post-reality career… The colomnists break their silence to speak about Our Jade:
Daily Mirror: “Fame-filled minutes are so pointless now”
Says Sue Carroll (Jade’s favourite columnist):
Nothing buys you more friends than five minutes on telly and it would be naive to suggest this isn’t seductive to impressionable kids who crave popularity and the prospect of riches beyond their wildest dreams.
Says Sue Carroll in her eponymous column in a national newspaper…
We didn’t watch her tragic decline out of morbid curiosity - or pity - but with admiration for the courage she showed to ensure others became aware of a cancer which takes lives that could - and should - be spared.
No, course not…
Glasgow Daily Record: “Goodbye Is Not Ok”
John Mckie:
AMONG all the sadness about the death of Jade Goody, one thing cannot and should not be forgotten … The shameful, black-bordered tribute issue of OK! with “Jade Goody 1981-2009″ on its front - last week, while she was still alive.
What’ll they do this week - sell the mag in a casket?
Depends if they can get a sponsor…
The Guardian: “Tony Blair’s People’s Proletarian”
It’s Simon Hoggard:
Where is Tony Blair when you need him? Just think what he would have made of Jade Goody’s death - he’d have spotted the 26 pages in yesterday’s Sun, and realised that he wanted a big slice of all this public sentiment.
How many words, left, Ed?
Oh, at the weekend Gordon Brown made a workmanlike statement about the lost TV star, only about three times as long as the regrets he utters when yet another British soldier dies in Afghanistan. Blair, however, would have drained every drop like an automatic milking machine in overdrive. He would have walked out of church yesterday (like Princess Di, Jade died early on a Sunday morning) and with quivering lip he would have gazed into the camera to tell us how she had illuminated all our lives, how she had been a beacon of bravery to so many young men and women, and how she would always be within our hearts. “She truly was the People’s Proletarian,” he would have added. He would then have turned his back, but not before we’d seen an arm reach up as if to brush away a tear.
The Independent: Simon Carr’s Parliament sketch.
The Prime Minister came into the Commons “deeply saddened”. He was being brave so we could only guess at his private sorrows. No wonder he wrote a book called Courage. It was the death of Jade Goody, you see. He’d been “deeply saddened” by it.
The news wires carried the news of this burden he was carrying. But that’s not the half of it. As he said at PMQs last week, every single job loss is a personal tragedy he shares (that’s two million continuous tragedies he has). And then don’t forget there’s all those soldiers dying in his various wars. They are forever remembered by the PM, whatever their names.
Daily Telegraph: “Well, what exactly did you expect the Pope to say? It is absurd to expect him to move with the times”
Gill Hornby:
It’s a rum old world in which Jade Goody reaches near-sanctification for her telepathic relationship with the media and the Pope gets rubbished because he’s baffled by it.
When Di was killed soon after Blair took over, Britain was a land of hope. Twelve years on we are skint and scared.
It’s a rum old world when a celibate former Hitler Youth members can rise to be head of the Catholic Church and preach to Africans about sex and condoms…
The Sun: Fergus Shanahan
May Jade rest in peace, and, if she is reading her favourite Sun in a better place, she might like to know that when you type Princess Diana into Google you get 3,290,000 hits while if you type in Jade Goody you get 5,300,000.
I think she’d have liked that.
And so does the Sun’s webteam, key word section.
This blog is Jade Goody free.
Er, no it isn’t:
But let me say this: the premature death of this young lady is obviously a tragedy for her family and friends but there is something quite sickening about all those who used to condemn her now rushing out statements of condolences and admiration.
And was it really necessary for the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition to say anything at all? Haven’t they got better things to do?
Or are they just desperate to be associated with popular culture, even its most dubious parts, where you can be talent-free and simply famous for being famous.
I only point out one thing: three more coffins have just returned from Afghanistan — unremarked by anybody in public.
Peter Horrocks (BBC):
We know that from the statistics that we have on a minute-by-minute basis from the news website that many more people visited than normally would on a Sunday - and the Jade Goody story was overwhelmingly the most popular story.
Jade Goody - the story so far…
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March 25th, 2009 at 12:48 am
….it would make wonderful T.V..especially if hosted by Jackeey….it might even be bigger than B.B…..
March 25th, 2009 at 12:28 am
‘Shit happens. We all die. Only the time, manner and place are still to be decided.’
As somebody posted elsewhere on Mothers Day, ‘I am thinking Max Clifford, in the master bedroom, with a pillow’.
March 25th, 2009 at 12:25 am
“I have just read the report that a terminally-ill Demi Moore fan is planning to have plastic surgery to make her look like Demi before she dies….the fan that is.
Now what are the chances in this country of some deluded, celebrity sicko having surgeons give her a Jade Goody look-a-like makeover?
It just would’nt…could’nt happen over here….never…we are not that much slaves to sleb….or so sick..or thick…are we….could we….would we?….well not me…but the Caplock Queens maybe….can you imagine a country full of girls that look like Goody & spell like shit?
I also read that it is costing the Demi devotee a mere $42,000 for the makeover…cheap at half the price ….I’ll take two.”
Anokak….I have just posted this in another thread but from the look of your pic it seems like Gordon Brown has started the plastic process of transforming into the delicious Demi but because of the credit crunch can’t afford the head….maybe Gordie can make do with Jaded Goodies instead?
Moderator - Hmmm possibly , perhaps a candidate for the movie?
March 24th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Jade…
she is our very own Anna Nicole, but she made her own money, whatever way, and she made an impact. Hope the current depression does not despite all regrets of GB ..that’s Gordon Brown,,, not Great Britain .. leave her kids with enough.
She surely tried right to the end God Bless her
March 24th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Duffel Coats and Wellingtons, nothing tatty for her maj
March 24th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
I might take the opportunity to learn to read the Runes….those teddies wearing Anoraks Yampster?
March 24th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Buying enough DVDs to get me through it. Amazon’s entire catalogue ought to do it.
March 24th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Not all of us. I will be on the M1 heading south with a boot full of Teddies and baling wire when that happens
March 24th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
If you are still about E. I owe you somewhat of an apology for the unnecessarily savage nature of my exchanges thus far with you. As a nurse, you have prectised what you preach in a vituous profession. I apologise for my splenetic tone and language, E. I should have really said something like this instead:
It is not that you believe. It is not that you are posting a comment that the people to whom it would matter, her family, are likely never to see - even if by now they are not desensitised and necessarily numb to even the well-wishes. As I (and probably you too) have been at the death of a parent, sibling or offspring in the relatively small (compared to a media personality’s vastly larger) pool of kin, workmates and locals who actually know you exist at all. They feel run together and heard as if in a fog as the brain shields itself from madness at the repeated reminder of your loss. You feel and appreciate the compassion, but the words are indistinct
It is not that you are posting these initial comments on a satirical website as a johnny-come lately in the deluge of mourning through PCs and Macs bought for relatives by well-meaning offspring who didn’t realise you would (en-masse) be actually capable of bringing down parts of the internet; like a brownout from the switching on of all the kettles in the world during the adverts during the best episode of the best soap opera ever made. Ever. This digital wave of Diana-like sentiment to someone too dead to appreciate that it is doing what the bad guys in 24, and NCIS (for instance) repeatedly plan, execute and be foiled when attempting in 60 minutes. (Not including the best adverts ever, obviously)
If we are as your God made us then someone close to me is hurtling down a genetically-ensured short path (in four score years and ten terms) to a horrible and prolonged death of the mind and the body by someone’s design. At the hand of a benevolent creator who will upgrade us all to Life 2.0 after we die.
If I as how your God made me, then I am powerless. by design over random chance, to reverse this or go back to prevent it. If we are someone’s god made us.
Yes, that’s what it is.
Oh, and the kettle-rush thing too. Seriously, you’re going to break the internet when the Queen goes, the lot of you.
March 24th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
i love my darlinn cameron,
hes my world my star
my everythingg
but sadly he died
i miss him so much
i wish he was here
lovee you loads babyy
:(:(:(:(
miss you so muchh
x x x
March 24th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
helooo everyone out there,
i miss my grandad alot,he dies 2 years ago
of this illness and i just want him bqack to spend
one more day with him he ment alot he was the most
important man in my life and i just wish i could see his face
one last time.
loveee you loads
grandad,
RIP <3
x x x
March 24th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
I think its strange that we are stunned when death occurs - saddened by the loss of someone is something else, but we are all mortal.
Its been an ongoing theme too that we do or don’t deserve illness, so how can someone (eg) Ivan Cameron who had been sick all his short life ‘deserve’ it, and IF its Deity’s will, what a cruel deity! And yet someone like Fritzl , a contemporary evil little shit if ever there was one , be so healthy?
If every fertilised egg or seed survived without its eventual demise wouldn’t this planet be somewhat overcrowded?
March 24th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
“May Jade rest in peace, and, if she is reading her favourite Sun in a better place, she might like to know that when you type Princess Diana into Google you get 3,290,000 hits while if you type in Jade Goody you get 5,300,000.
I think she’d have liked that.”
says The SUN. and if you type lady Diana you get 16.000.000
I think WE like that!
March 24th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Why do all the God-botherers not BLAME God for
1 giving her the illness in the first place
2 failing to stop its progress
3 performing a miracle when it got to a late stage
4 …. and so on
I just don’t get it.
Shit happens. We all die. Only the time, manner and place are still to be decided.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:52 am
er, sorry but my understanding was that it was terminal cervical cancer….?
I really don’t see what anybody’s “will” has to do with anything..!!
if you are labouring under the impression that some”body” made this happen, then you are, unfortunately, sadly mistaken…..
ps: “god-bothering laity” is usually defined as an over-enthusiastic religious person who is not a member of the priesthood - hope that helps….
March 24th, 2009 at 11:36 am
No matter what anyone comments on will always have a Negative
effect to your body ( I did not mentioned Soul as you more-or-less refered
to me as a God-bothering Laity) whatever this means. i dont need to save my words for anyone as this is a Free Country.
was it your will then ? or can you enlighten me otherwise.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:13 am
..so education standards weren’t so great in the middle of the 20th century, contrary to popular opinion, or just by current example…?
…and I find myself getting irritated yet again by this wonderful get-out clause that the god-botherers have, whereby whichever way the axe falls, there is somehow always a godly justification for it, no matter whether the person concerned is cherished or reviled…..
March 24th, 2009 at 11:04 am
It’s not really my garden anyway, E. I’m just a lodger here.
Mr. Grab-All, The Grim Feller has taken too many of my loved ones too, before their time. I’m glad you are/were a nurse and not for instance, say, the anaesthesiologist who gave my sister an overdose of the pre-operative cholinesterase inhibitor that lead to hear braindeath on the table during a simple operation; or the respite care nurse who failed to be able to save my father from an asthma-induced heart attack when I, as a mere 13-15 year-old kid, had managed to do that very thing several times before on my own even while crying with mortal fear and panic in the middle of the night; or the doctors who dismissed the mother of my children’s near-fatal uterine infection as an upset stomach.
You are, however one of the God-bothering Laity, who insisted to me in each case that it was/would have been the Will of God that they were/would have been taken. Save your words for Jade Tweed’s family.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:48 am
I wish to take part not only for Jade Goody,but also my Darling MOTHER &
FATHER, my (3) UNCLES) 2 AUNTIES) Lots of FRIENDS and others
who have died with this ILLNESS.
And may i say to you i have (3 Grandaughters under the age of 25 years old
and the Late Miss Goody has put their mind at ease to get checked out
and never leave anthing to chance.
I have seen alot of Dying People,you see i was a NHS Nurse from 1960 to 1976.
So People Jade Goody did it her way.
MAY THEY ALL REST -IN -PEACE AND RISE IN GLORY.
March 24th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Frist