Quote: morpeth rhino "whats the betting shes done a deal with Ok and Living to sell the rights to her funeral.'" news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7925719.stm Check towards the bottom ....

Quote: morpeth rhino "whats the betting shes done a deal with Ok and Living to sell the rights to her funeral.'" news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7925719.stm Check towards the bottom ....

Having a glimpse of what goes on in the world of "celebrity" via a family member then I can only pass on the information that you shouldn't believe all that you read in the newspapers.

To take Jade Goody as an example of a "celebrity" who is a celebrity for the sheer hell of being a celebrity as opposed to (but not all that disimilar from) a celebrity who is a celbrity because they had five minutes of fame as a popular singing artist (Kerry Katona and her like), you have to understand that their only purpose in getting out of bed in a morning is to make sure that something is released via your agent that day.

Max Clifford is the best in the world at doing that and the challenge that he thought he was facing when he took on Jade Goody after her infamous racist Big Brother episode must have changed to "Its all my christmas's come at once" when she discovered that she had a terminal illness, even I could have sold her story after that.

Back to the "celebrity" lifestyle ... the opportunities to earn a lot of money are not as frequent as you'd believe and without a good agent then you simply won't get them, you'll also discover that if your real talent is very shallow then all you'll have to sell is a lifestyle story in which you go for shock or sympathy, Kerry Katona has tried both and boxed herself into a corner as an object of ridicule, where Jade Goody found a niche with her illness Katona is a bankrupt who tried to present herself in a wealthy "WAG" format while all the time spending more than she was earning - a years worth of Iceland earnings went to pay a tax bill that should have been paid the year before - where do you go from there when MTV want to film inside your executive pad that is one week away from being repossesed and at what point do you confess to that and let them in when the bailiffs arrive - all she had to sell then was the story of her seperation from the scuffer that was hanging on to her purse.

Story's of millions earned by having your face in OK and Hello! are bollax perpetuated by the "celebrities" who want to be known as the one who is worth the most and not denied by the magazines themselves as its hardly bad publicity to be known as the top payer in the business, even when £500 is their starting point for most negotiations, £30k being the average for a really juicy story or even a wedding if your name isn't Beckham.


So was Jade Goody wrong for dying on camera ?

Its the only skill she had, her earnings before her diagnosis would have been down to zero, possibly with legal threats from her franchised products suppliers (how much does it cost to pull "Jade" perfume off the shelves) and with an expensive lifestyle to pay for and two children to provide a future for then who can blame her - I don't.

The fekkwits who buy the magazines are another story, and I include my own family in that...

[iIn 2008, Goody appeared in the Indian version of Big Brother, Bigg Boss. She was rumoured to have been offered £100,000 to take part.[/i

Well at least Goody was famous before she found out she was dying. What was Tomlinson famous for?

Jim Davidson has been doing it for years !!! BTW i dont admire him

it's where we are at.

whether you like it or not

A> i think her motivation for the recent publicity is to leave her kids as much money as possible, she had few other ways of doing it.

B> Max Clifford is very good at what he does, whether you like him or not. His autobiog is worth a read (and is in the bargain bin), it may not entirely change your opinion, but there is more to the man than meets the eye, and he has lead an interesting life.

C> The number of women going for smears has gone through the roof.

At last somebody has pointed out this very good by-product of the whole affair.
As the father of 2 daughters I am hoping that the age of young ladies being able to have this, potentially, life saving test free on the NHS is lowered.

She was hated before she was ill, and then in her last few weeks, she was fantastic. Typical fickle members of society.

Now I've even seen and heared members of the "Great British public" called her a "legend", and an "icon", a fantastic role model" in the last few week.

It is what is wrong with the society, that a low life, racist, offensive, no brainer gets much more publicity than a woman who died of the same illness who raised hundreds of thounsands for chairity. She then incidentally was accussed of faking her illness

Without going through the full the transcript of the coversation, someone I know the other week said,
"why do you dislike her, you've got admire her for making something from her life, and that is what she has done, she is a clever woman for making something out of nothing". I gave up, but this sort of attitude is obviously down to the fault of the people who read the magazines, and the tripe that is on television.

Infact, my Grandad said today, "all to do with money, her death seems so fake, no dignity in todays world." It seems quite an accurate summary tbh.

Now what will happen to her "fantastic lover boy". Wonder if he will continue attacking taxi drivers

Well my fecktard friend, that is the point, Tomlinson was an ordinary mum who used here remaining time not seeking fame or fortune, but raising money to help others.The last thing she wanted was personal "fame".

Famous for being a thick fat ignorant pig? Oh yea!!

Jane Tomlinson became famous for WANTING to help others who would suffer the same illness as her.

Dont try and compare the two. Jane Tomlinson by plenty!!

Now Gordon"the moron"Brown has got in on the act, making a public statement of how sad he is and sending condolences to the family.
Just like he does every time British soldier is killed in Iraq or Afghanistan........Oh hang on minute........

Well said mate!

Exactly, if I was ever unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with a terminal illness if I could remain just half as positive and dignified as Jane Tomlinson did, and raise just a fraction of the money that she did for the cause I would be happy and I would know my actions would leave my family proud of me.

The two people are completely impossible to compare because how they dealt with the tragic news was so different.