EastEnders At Jade Goody’s Funeral
JADE Goody: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Jade Goody’s post-reality career, with EastEnders, beauty tips and Russell Brand says…
The Sun: “Jade’s grieving boys spared pain of funeral”
Funeral directors FA Albin of Bermondsey, South London, issued a statement saying the music had been chosen by the Big Brother star, who was 27. It read: “Jade’s coffin will be carried by the company’s vintage Rolls hearse followed by a cortege of four Daimler limousines and her favourite car, a Bentley.”
The boys won’t know:
A public address system will broadcast the midday service to fans outside, while proceedings will also be screened inside the church hall. Following the service, the procession will move to a private burial ground.
And Jade?
Jade’s beautician friend Nilam Patel has vowed to do her make-up one last time. Nilam made Jade look stunning for her wedding to Jack Tweed, 21, just a month ago. She said: “Jade would want to look her best, and I wouldn’t like to think of a stranger doing it. It may sound macabre and it’s not something I’ve ever done before. But I’d do it for Jade.”
Can’t look a state as you lie in state…
Daily Star: “Hollywood Babe to play Jade”
Has Dick Van Dyke got a daughter?
BIONIC babe Michelle Ryan is being lined up to play tragic Jade Goody in a film of her life. The 24-year-old ex-EastEnder, who appeared in US show The Bionic Woman in 2007, is top of the list to star in the biographical movie.
Get yer kebabs out for the lads… It’s a real EastEnders do.
Last night Jade’s publicist Max Clifford, 65, said: “She is a story of our time – a girl from Bermondsey who admitted she had no talent, a limited education and suffered a dreadful childhood. Yet she’s world-famous.”
Or, er, was. Anyone else in it, innit?
Other big names being considered are Extras star Ashley Jensen, 39, while Danny Dyer, 31, and Sean Maguire, 32, are being tipped to play husband Jack, 21.
Danny is a pal of Jack’s and is said to be seriously considering the offer, which will be based on Jade’s second autobiography, Catch A Falling Star.
Danny Dyer, the UK’s answer to Dick Van Dyke; or as the actor surely prefers it, Dick Van Dyke was America’s answer to Danny Dyer
Cor, luvvus!
The Guardian: “How suffering became a public act - Kathleen Ferrier and Jade Goody: two celebrities who died young. And there the similarities end”
King George VI was discovered dead in bed in the early morning of 6 February 1952. He was 56. A few hours later I was walking home at lunchtime with a few classmates from primary school. “Look at that flag!” one of them said, and we looked across the playing fields towards a cotton mill that had a flagpole on its roof. The flag was only halfway up the mast: “It means the king has died.” This is my earliest memory of public death.
God save the King!
For every one of us this week who couldn’t bear to read or hear another word about Jade Goody - we were absolutely up to here (the gullet) with her and her alleged significance - there would be somebody in 1952 angrily wondering when Abbot and Costello would resume at the Odeon.
Gawd help us!
Western Mail: “What the princesses of Wales and Bermondsey reveal about our lives today”
Jade Goody’s death from cancer has prompted an outpouring of public grief not seen since the untimely death of another young mother-of-two, Princess Diana…
Canon Chris Sugden, who edited a book examining the reaction to Diana’s death, questions the attempts to turn Jade into a saintly figure.
“What is a saint? In the Christian understanding all people who believe in Jesus are saints because they’re the ones who have been made holy by him.
“But in common parlance it means people who have been felt to demonstrate the life of Jesus so successfully that something of him really shone through – Mother Teresa and people like that.
“Are we really wanting to say that in people’s estimation she ranks with Mother Teresa?”
Irish Independent: “The dysfunctional but profitable upbringing”
As the Princess Diana death industry has proved, there is still profit to be made from the Jade Goody phenomenon, even in death.
Daily Mirror: “For Jade, as with Diana, a true feeling of grief..”
Tony Parsons:
Those people in the street did not know Diana. She died without knowing their names, or that they even existed. How could they feel real sorrow about someone they never knew, and who certainly did not know them?
The cynics called it recreational grieving - meaning a form of mawkish, self-indulgent mourning that has more to do with entertainment than real bereavement. They said it about Diana. And they will say it again when Jade Goody is laid to rest…
What Jade and Diana ultimately shared is that as they changed and grew, so our feelings towards them changed.
Daily Mirror: “Brand: I will miss Primark Princess Jade”
Russell Brand has paid tribute to Jade Goody - saying she was a “Primark Princess” connecting with audiences “in a way showmen only dream of”.
The Scotsman: “Jaded view of BBC”
THE nadir of relentless “dumbing down” by the once-venerated BBC was surely reached at noon last Sunday. This was when the lead item on The Politics Show’s news section reported solemnly on Gordon Brown’s reaction to the death of Jade Goody. I confess that I hastily switched off, unable to face the possibility of an ensuing debate on the merits of a state funeral.
SANDY MACNAIR
Jade Goody - the hardest working star in ex-reality…
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March 30th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Seems like you’ve been smoking the dodgy stuff already percy.
March 30th, 2009 at 8:09 am
…that should read “PREFER”… not “REEFER”…..although maybe….. I have subconsciously found the cure for my premature projctile puking problem….I’m off to try it and see….although I forsee its going to be tricky & icky, rolling the puke into the rizla is not going to be easy….
March 30th, 2009 at 8:02 am
..or to put it more politely C&C…because you are a lady I see…
I WOULD REFER TO EAT MY OWN PUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx
March 30th, 2009 at 7:47 am
. Good morning C&C…will watching these re-runs cure me of my nightmares and help wipe away the impression of Jackiey in her peejays that is painfully burnt into my brain….or should I just puke now?
After me….1…..2…..speweeeeeee……whoops ..I done it again…excuse me…
March 30th, 2009 at 7:23 am
Percy…. if you want a real insight into the whole family then grit your teeth and try and find a re-run of Celebrity BB from 2007. Its true car crash viewing. You won’t want to watch it and you’ll hate yourself for it but you won’t be able to stop.
Jade, Jack, Jackiey, Jackiey’s mum and dad. They’re all there……. watch it and then you’ll understand it all.
March 29th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
I am still puzzled by one important point….can anyone please tell me what significance did Jackiey in pyjamas have in this appalling pantomime? …I am having nightmARES AND NEED TO KNOW….
March 29th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
p.s. i only hitched my wagon to Blogger because I thought my addition to the fold would kill it off like the skateboarding craze in the 80’s. Likewise with Twitter. But not Anorak. Nooooo.
March 29th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Soz for late reply Percy, was visiting mum and eating heartily. Yes, I do wonder why an antitrust suit hasn’t been lodged against them. I use Scroogle when I remember to, but I wait with bated breath for new relational search engines that don’t rely on page hit counts and suchlike. As we have learned from the charts, most popular is often not best suited to our needs.
Also it will prevent me from having to see odd things on my Google Analytics - like the fact that someone found my site from a search of “bukkake tube Japan” and “tube Japan bukkake”. Presumably the same person who was disappointed that my humble digital home provided no such thing on the first search. Or the second.
March 29th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
agreed….these are simple stories with simple subjects serving male & female fantasies of vanity,celebrity & greed….the added bonus with the Jaded Goodies Celebrity Cancer Story ….is that she died….so a fear of death fantasy did’nt go unfulfilled…..profit in loss …..sounds like a load of bankers to me.
March 29th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Yong girls and young womens fantasies Percy? Yep. haven’t you been noticing the ‘Jade’ comments from her fans?
And don’t forget the current men’s mags like Nuts etc. Blokes have been dumbed down as well……..
March 29th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
magney matey ….do that crazy google cult over at Mountain View spook you too?
We are being watched……
March 29th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
C7C …are you saying that this story is fuelled by womens fantasy of fickle fame & fatal vanity?….well you do surprise me
March 29th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Thankee, yampster.
March 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Or maybe ‘The Lady’. Both cracking letters pages
March 29th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
I think you mean ‘The Peoples Friend’. Don’t tell anyone I told you
March 29th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Which one used to have paintings of (Scottish?) pastoral scenes on the cover. Google is no bloody help. I tried Woman’s Realm, Woman’s Own, Woman’s weekly - all tied to the search terms ‘cover’ and ‘paintings’. Mountain View is going to be serving me some odd adverts for a while.
March 29th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
what do you mean Anorak? Moderation V death? Hmmmmmm
March 29th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
C&C - will look into your prob…
But doesn’t Jade put it into perspective?
March 29th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I’m getting bored of going into moderation and ending up several posts back!
March 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Percy…. its not just the red-tops…. go into Tescos (or simialr) and look at the womens magazine shelves. This week nearly every magazine has a tribute to JG on the cover along with tasteless black banners and meaningless syrupy words. Each trying to outdo the other for Jade Sales.
Jade Goody, Katie Price, Kerry Katona, Danielle Lloyd, Cheryl Cole…. all the sleb favourites who sell the minutae of their lives every week are there all the time. The silly young girls want to be like them, they see this as a shortcut to fame and fortune and hopefully a footballer.
But this wouldn’t happen if the demand wasn’t there. How many Jade headlines has Anorak had in the past few weeks? we must all be clicking away and hitting them or Anorak wouldn’t keep putting them up!
Even the ‘old’ magazines like Woman and Woman’s own have dumbed down to the same level in order to survive. Have we women got what we deserve? Is that all we want to read about now… Soaps and Slebs? Seems like it… HOWEVER I noted Jade got a nice mention in Time magazine this week. weird huh?
March 29th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Gordon ….I wonder how some of these so called slebs are going to survive without the support of the papers….the press is being crunched at present and some of these sleb stories smack of desperation to keep pushing the paps and save sales….if the people stop buying such poor products…then & only then will the sleb circus be without a ringmaster and an audience….
March 29th, 2009 at 11:00 am
I’m looking forward to the day the whole celeb culture dies.
March 29th, 2009 at 3:13 am
Dr Eggman Says:
March 28th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
No magazine gonna cough up for it then? Not like Max Headroom to miss a trick….
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Do you mean Max By Graves ?
March 28th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Magazine deal for a funeral, jesus suffering fuck what will they think of next? There was me thinking it would be a quiet dignified family affair
March 28th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
No magazine gonna cough up for it then? Not like Max Headroom to miss a trick….
Or does even he have some standards?
March 28th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Reading Anorak’s story I can’t help thinking that it sounds like one hell of an expensive funeral, yet the two little chaps who are picking up the nut haven’t even scored an invite
March 28th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
‘Granted she did not live a ‘perfect life’ and she certainly couldn’t be classifed as a ‘fine English Rose’ , yet when you read her background from birth she deserved more understanding than scorn.’
I believe Kerry Katona ( and to a certain extent that other nobody Katie Price) have claimed similar in their biographies (all five of them). Price has of course gone one step further and miraculously recovered from her alleged cancer, to the adulation of the mugs that buy into it.
So any other zeleb that has no talent, achieves some illumination via their racist views, then gets ill through ignorance, just to prolong their illness to fill the sows ears of their publicist are now deserving of understanding.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Cheryl
It’ll be chaos up there on the funeral day, Loughton and Buckhurst Hill aren’t ‘city’ more small town and very near the motorway( M11) and Upshire is just a small Essex village. Hopefully, Essex Police (Traffic) can sort and prevent problems otherwise it’ll be utter chaos and gridlock.
The media here do hypocrisy very well, it isn’t seemly to say anything ill of the dead, but you can bet any money had Jade been healthy and alive….. she had run her course, similar to Diana, there wasn’t much more either could be or do. Sadly, the ‘not nice’ stories were nearer the truth or mark and really not ridicule.
The BBC is currently being pilloried for their coverage of ‘Jadeache’ and dumbing down so much,( and quite rightly too, it wasn’t news, it was gossip) but of course apart from the financial markets problems and Iraq/ Afghanistan etc…..
This ‘mournporn’ thing is strangely ‘British’, or NuLab if you like, but short lived and the florists love it!
March 28th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I agree….
March 28th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Maybe it is the media’s reaction (and some publics) by stories they write now, Percy, that puzzles me. Think about it. The papers (and some public) spent years ridiculing her and now all of a sudden do a turn about because she is dead by writing nice articles? The stories now are not going to cancel out nor excuse all the not nice stories over the years.
March 28th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
…..is it that something so simple can be interesting to so many in the media that is puzzling you ,Cheryl?…….