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OK mag: Jade "memorial issue" complete with year of death on front cover......how tasteless is this??

103 replies

TheRealMrsJohnSimm · 18/03/2009 12:54

I mean, in the context of producing a memorial issue before the poor woman has even passed away? Seems like a pathetic attempt to continue to be "first with the news".

I have been through the experience of watching and waiting for death of a loved one from cancer. It can be a protracted and painfully long process - even when the doctors do say there are only "days left" it can turn out to be longer.

Who do they think they are appealing to with this awful "scoop"??

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beanieb · 18/03/2009 22:55

oh-kay. Like I said, sorry.

slowly backs away from thread

SlartyBartFast · 18/03/2009 22:55

the ok tribute is crazy.

just wondered what on earth will they do when she does pop her clogs, as it were??

solidgoldbrass · 19/03/2009 00:34

Hmm, I wonder. At least Blair's gone, so he won't be trying to invite himself to her funeral and turning it into a State Occasion. But I wonder if there will be calls for a memorial fountain/public holiday/mass get your kebab out or something.

lottiejenkins · 19/03/2009 10:00

People on here seem to have a funny idea what constitutes a "joke" dont they?

georgimama · 19/03/2009 10:07

"I think laughing is a perfectly reasonable reaction to someone not dying despite all the predictions that they are going to. Particularly when the not-dying leaves a shitty magazine looking very foolish."

I totally agree SGB. I remember when the Pope was dying, and it all didn't seem to happening quickly enough for Sky news. They had set up 24 hour TV crew outside the Vatican waiting for the news that he had finally popped and it was actually getting embarrassing watching the studio anchors trying to fill hours of nothing with info about the Catholic church and obscure Vatican law cribbed from tinternet.

They couldn't possibly pull away to cover something else because 1) they might miss it and 2) it would make the previous 24 hours look even more daft. They looked really relieved when he finally did go.

Some people get gallows humour, some don't.

2shoes · 19/03/2009 11:13

well i laughed at SBG's post

Nancy66 · 19/03/2009 13:10

Well if it wasn't for the 'scumbag' media jade's two children would be left in poverty.

Jade has courted and very much needed the media her whole life.

Max Clifford is totally in league with OK magazine - do you honestly think he didn't know that the memorial issue was coming out?

I feel sorry that a young mum is dying but Jade sold her soul a long time ago. She's milked the media for every last penny - including her own death.

smallorange · 19/03/2009 13:15

"Well if it wasn't for the 'scumbag' media jade's two children would be left in poverty."

I doubt that very much.

Of course they knew the memorial issue was coming out - everyone realises that. All the exclusive interviews and pix will be tied up in this 'memorial' issue and Jade will get her money.
Of course Max Clifford is 'in league' with OK - He's the one who organised the deals!

dittany · 19/03/2009 13:15

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smallorange · 19/03/2009 13:19

I agree Dittany that OK! has crossed a line and personally I don't care whether Jade's family are supportive of OK, or whether it's for money for her boys (bleurghh), or that she is Mother Theresa herself. It's a sick thing for OK! to do. (And I'm a cynic)

I see that we are now being treated to Jade's boys making Mother's Day cards for her.

Nancy66 · 19/03/2009 13:21

Smallorange - it's an absolute fact. How else would she have earned her money?

I can't see that Ok have done anything wrong at all. jade used them to make money, they've used her to sell copies. It's the way it works.

It's Princess Di 'hysterical housewife syndrome' all over again.

dittany · 19/03/2009 13:25

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smallorange · 19/03/2009 13:27

Sorry Nancy but: "It's Princess Di 'hysterical housewife syndrome' all over again."

Was that aimed at me?

I know Jade has made all her money from the media blah de blah. I'm not talking about her - I'm talking about an editorial decision that was taken to put out a memorial issue for a person who is still alive and could very well still be alive next month.

mrsruffallo · 19/03/2009 13:27

I agree with Nancy.

georgimama · 19/03/2009 13:28

Why would they have been in poverty? How is that a fact?

These two particular children would probably not have been born if she had not become a reality TV star since that was how she met their father, but prior to Big Brother Jade Goody was not living on benefits as some would think.

She was a dental nurse. She presumably earned a reasonable salary. If she had had a family whilst still a dental nurse, would she have been so badly off? Do all dental nurses' children live in poverty? I doubt it.

smallorange · 19/03/2009 13:30

It can be justified by saying that she is making money for her children - but what does it say about us as a culture that we want to buy a magazine detailing the (airbrushed) obituary of someone who isn't dead yet? Death as entertainment over your lunch break?

I'm talking as someone who used to doorstep people whose children had just died etc..

100yearsofsolitude · 19/03/2009 13:30

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Nancy66 · 19/03/2009 13:31

eh no, was aimed at the story of Jade and the general public's OTT reaction to it.

smallorange · 19/03/2009 13:33

I think the public are sick of it TBH and the issue was pushed out as an end to it. I mean, hey it's spring, the weather's nice, people don't want to reading about Jade anymore

mrsruffallo · 19/03/2009 13:33

I don't want to read it small oranges, and I can't think what I would have in common with anyone that did.

Nancy66 · 19/03/2009 13:33

Georgimama you can't speculate on what might have happened if she hadn't gone on Big Brother! I'm dealing with reality here....

If Princess Di hadn't married Prince charles she might still be alive today.

Nancy66 · 19/03/2009 13:34

Smallorange - the public can't get enough. The Sun sell about 100,000 extra copies when they put her on the cover.

georgimama · 19/03/2009 13:38

Well you started the speculation, you said without the media whirlwind in which she has lived her children would have been in poverty.

I was merely pointing out that before she was on BB she had a career and had she not persued the media route, would presumably have faded back into that career like other BB contestants.

Nancy66 · 19/03/2009 13:43

Oh a sort of 'sliding doors' - how she might have lived in a parrallel universe? yes, that's a very valid point.

gagamama · 19/03/2009 14:49

It is horrible. I've been noticing throughout her whole illness that it was originally "Jade, who has just months to live", then "Jade, who has just weeks to live" then "Jade, who has just days to live" and then at some point last week it turned to "Jade, who has just hours to live". It's horrid that people are trying to second-guess the timing of her death in order to get the 'exclusive' and this OK! thing is by far the worst example of that. As others have said, I remember watching my Grandad die from cancer and I know in the final few weeks I thought "he can't possibly get any worse than this, today is surely his last" every single day. Part of the cruelty of cancer is how slow and unpredictable it is.

(As as aside, going back to the comment about Mel C on the cover of Hello! - she released a single photo on her website with all proceeds from syndication going to charity. Hello! put this photo on the cover and made it look like some kind of exlusive photoshoot with them. It wasn't!)