The Jade Goody business: a new low for Britain?

[max_tranmere]

Sam. I mean you no dis-respect but you sound a bit nieve. For a start the fact her mother was an alcoholic and her father a drug addict, was, although certainly true, something told to the nation in order to advance Jade Goody's standing in the eyes of the public. It is something more she can reveal, and the interivew in which it was said can feature a headline like "Jade's Troubled Past". It would also have made her money which is the motivation for everything she has ever done.

You mention how she wrote a biography. She didn't. Someone else wrote it and she just put her name and photo on the cover. I doubt this imbecile could have written her own name. The likes of her, Katie Price, Coleen McLoughlin and other bimbos, have devalued the literary world in my view as it is no longer something that people will be respected for if they say "I have written a book" as most people listening will just think someone else wrote it for you. The literary world has been cheapened by people like this as fakery is now so widespread.

You also say that it wasn't her, but the media, who made her so prolific in recent times. No, it was Max Clifford, her sleaze-bag publicist brokering the stories for her and she agreed and wanted all of it. To agree to marry that guy who was in prison was something thought up by her and Clifford together in order to make money, so was the idea of getting Christened, her kids being Christened, her kids being told to sit on the lap of their "stepdad" (before he is returned to jail) even though it is unlikely they'll ever see him again now she is dead - was all to make money. And so on and so on. People think the tabloids were just covering these things. Max Clifford is the most powerful sleaze broker in the land and he arranged it all.

You also mention how the prolific-ness of all this has helped raise awareness of women's cancer issues. It might have done but that is incidental, and was never the key motivating factor. Rather like how Katie Price (Jordan) claims the reason she takes her disabled son to book signings (for books she never even wrote) is so other mums can ask her advice on how to cope with a disabled child and so on. It has nothing what-so-ever to do with just getting more publicity for herself as she will be photographed more when he is by her side (no, of course not!!).

I don't know how it's not illegal to parade disabled children around just so you can get more publicity, and ultimately more money, for yourself. The 20 or more Hello and Ok magazine exclusives Price has done with her disabled son in the cover photo under headings like "Me and Harvey: His latest treatment" and "Katie and Harvey: how she is coping following his latest round of tantrums" etc. This poor blind, disabled, boy is dressed in some odd outfit and forced to stand there with her and be photogtaphed for the cover of one of these awful magazines (when he has no idea what is going on), so she can increase her profile and can get more money. I don't know how it is not illegal (in fact it probably is!).

[max_tranmere]

I've just had a horrible thought: Goody's mother is probably about to become a major celebrity, and earn heaps of cash, and Max Clifford will know how to organise it. She will "write" a book, entitled something like "Me and My Jade", then a year later there will be another one: "Memories of Jade: One Year On". She, of course, won't write one word as she can't even spell her own name, but she will get credited as an author and dullards across the country will respect her as a writer - thus cheapening the literary world even more, and her capitalising yet further on her daughter's death.

ITV1 and ITV2 have many programmes now that are nothing more than TV versions of Heat magazine. Look out for mother Goody becoming a "Queen of Hearts" type ambassador for cancer, third world poverty, battered women, environmental issues, AIDS, Africa, depleting Third World rainforests, and everything else. Entire series, at peak viewing times, will be aired, with mother Goody (is her name Jackie someone said?) at the helm.

This whole country is falling to pieces. Katie Price gets as much respect as a writer as Martin Amis, even though she doesn't write book - just pretends to; Jade Goody was viewed as being as much of an ambassador on many issues, and got even more respect amongst the tabloid reading fraternity, as people who never earned any money do for getting cold, late at night, helping homeless run-aways; the Goody mother is about to become seriously rich and get a very high profile on TV - thus pushing aside young people whose life-time dream it was to get on TV and worked hard for it. Max Clifford is helping destroy our nation. Someone should shoot that bastard!

[Sam Slater]

Exactly, Eric. She's not the brightest spark but she still didn't sit on her arse and claim benefits like her mum, or ended up in the clink/on drugs like her dad.

If you had her upbringing and a similar intellect (not her fault after all) where would you be? In the gutter feeling sorry for yourself? Millions are.

She made the most of what she had going for her at the time. Since when was that a bad thing?

[number 6]

Watch out for mother of goody on celeb big brother next year,no joke.

[Flat_Eric]

Sam Slater wrote:

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But Sam that's exactly my point: *SHE* didn't make anything of herself.

Others did (ie. the gutter press, "celebrity" trash-mags and Max Clifford).

On BB3 they saw before them a talentless, loud-mouthed, aggressive, common-as-muck, vacuous chav nobody who they decided they could transform into a "celebrity" and make a lot of money from because they knew that millions more talentless, loud-mouthed, aggressive, common-as-muck, vacuous chav nobodies would be able to relate to her - I mean whatever, yeah?!

And guess what: Those same red-tops, trash-mags and Max Clifford will continue to make money from her for many months - if not years - even after she's gone.

You're crediting her with intelligence and business acumen that she simply didn't have.

- Eric

[Sam Slater]

Well, like I've already mentioned, she was a dental nurse BEFORE she was known to the media, the public and Max Clifford. Dentists are pretty educated folk, I'm sure they don't go around employing 'talentless, loud-mouthed, aggressive, common-as-muck, vacuous chav nobodies' for a laugh.

I guess the final question to you is, what the fuck did you expect her to do under those circumstances. Decline the opportunity of making herself a millionaire and deny her kids the chance of a more financially stable life?

Max: "Jade, I'm sure you could cash in on this bit of fame by letting some up and coming journo ghost-write your autobiography. Waddaya say?"

Jade: "No chance! I'm a talentless chav and deserve to spend the rest of my days on a council estate, living off benefits and watching my kids grow up with the same hopelessness, frustration and anger as I had!"

Would you turn down more money and a better way of life just because you didn't think yourself worthy?

Tell you what, Eric. Let's say she's just been found dead due to malnutrition in some grimy flat. It comes to light that she fell on hard times due to not being able to get her old job back, was unable to pay her mortgage or buy her kids the Nike trainers all the other kids wore, and finally fell into a deep depression. Not going out and hardly eating, the kids were finally split up and put into foster care.

You with me so far?

It comes to the media's attention (via your mate Clifford) that she had been offered a few million squid to make a fitness video and an autobiography but turned it down because she either couldn't be arsed, or thought she wasn't talented enough. Now, what's betting there'd be a thread on here about how fucking dumb she was in passing it up, and how she denied her kids a better life for sheer lack of ambition!

Hypothetical I know, but you know that that reaction would be pretty fucking close to the truth.

Your laying into a recently dead 27 year old mother of two for having the cheek to carve out a decent living for herself. That, my friend, is the top and bottom of it.

[number 6]

She didnt carve a living out for herself,she was exploited by channel 4 for fame and held up as a national joke,then spat out. But she was too thick to realise this. Everyone saw what she was like when she laid into that coloured girl on big brother,disgussting racist that she was. Its sad she died so young but forgive us all for not getting caught up in the bullshit bandwagon.

[Sam Slater]

All of us have bad days, or places in time that we're ashamed of.

What's that got to do with what I asked Eric?

[Sam Slater]

[quote]She was still a gobby, nasty racist and most right-thinking people are nauseated by the media circus and her money-grabbing attitude.[/quote]

Was she a racist or was she someone that could be perceived as racist, on a reality tv show, once upon a time?

Many of you have already alluded to her lack of intelligence already so I'm sure all you 'brainboxes' must have already put down her 'popadom' remarks as moments of mindless stupidity rather than real racism.

And talking of nastiness and racism, Keith, we've seen our fair share of that round here haven't we?

Please refrain from all this 'cumming in my pants' business and leave that for your discourse with Eric and Colon(el). I've seen your picture, remember, and you're not really my type.