She's held on for weeks now, and decides to go on Mother's Day, surely not a coincidence.

I fully agree with you, the best thing for her children would have been (in my opinion) for her to spend as much time as possible with them and giving them good life long memories of their mother rather than growing up safe in the knowledge that their mother would ell her own death in her search for publicity and money.

Not quite as cynical as Asim's post on the Sin Bin

You’ve got to admire someone who has managed to make themselves a millionaire by being a talentless racist bigot.

I think that sums it up. I think the woman and her kids need to be left alone now. I hope there is no ugly custody/money wranglings, but judgeing by the state of her new husband I suspect otherwise.

whats the betting shes done a deal with Ok and Living to sell the rights to her funeral.

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.