To find this cashing in disgusting?

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I am at work in the bookshop at the moment and we have just had a delivery of an auto-biography of JADE GOODY ffs, complete with fears about losing her hair etc. It seems to have been ghostwritten by some hack from Heat magazine, but even so, wouldn't you want to spend time quietly with your family and concentrate on getting well after a cancer diagnosis? All the sleb mags are full of her "exclusive" interviews and pics though, and it seems like one huge money-making opportunity. What is this - well you've seen my kebab, now pay to read about my internal organs ???? I think it's in very poor taste, AIBU?

I think if it wasnt so much in my face, it wouldnt bother me. But ffs, Living is one of my fav channels and every bleedin ad break has a trailer for her new show!

She's always been a publicity junkie so i cant see why anyone is surprised that she isnt stopping now.

People are always interested in her carcrash life and if she makes money for her boys, well what the hey!

The poor girl has just under gone a full historectomy at 27! if she wants to sell a book and pics and people want to buy them then good for her she makes money that way if she doent sell pics etc she cant support her kids! The book was startedlong before she found out she had Cancer it just happens to have been completed now. Should she give up eveything and sit in a box whilst having this illness????

What can Jade Goody possibly have to write in an autobiography?

IMO biographies and autobiographies should only be written about people who are well into their 50s/60s, who have lived their lives and had spectacular careers etc.

I question the inteligence of anyone who wants to pay money to read about someone's career as a contestant on big brother. .

If she wants to sell her life prior to this then well if people are stupid enough to pay money for it then so be it.

But selling her cancer story to the public when her own children don't even know is despicable IMO.

It is of course understandable that she hasn't told her children as they are still so young, but presumably her 5 yo attends school? so how is he going to feel when one of his friends tells him that mummy might die of cancer because their mummy/sister/whoever read it in heat magazine?

I must be very lucky. I have heard about Jade on the news and in the paper, but not for a while. I don't have it in my face every day. If you don't want to listen to Jade Goody then perhaps change your reading habits, or turn the TV over when she comes on, or just close your eyes and turn the page?

Celebrities, no matter how insignificant, sell papers and mags. We are a nation obsessed. Just look at some of the Mumsnet threads about people on the Telly, Telly Addicts, In The News, search under Kerry Katona. People love to talk about them. So if you don't like it, stop talking about it, stop buying the mags. Otherwise you'll just have to turn the page and quit moaning.

the best thing to come from the whole jade goody thing would be if her story was used in schools to educate teenagers about the risks of having many sex partners, unprotected sex, and starting at too young an age. I am a teacher, have taught sex ed in science and in social ed. I have also had girls aged 15/16 have babies, so I know what happens

she could really do some good with the youth as i am sure has Kylies experience of cancer
the moral being check yourself, have smears, use protection, young people can get cancer too - they might find this a lot more off putting than the risks of getting preg etc

but with the money thing, if people are daft enough to buy it, and if she is thinking about her boys future, good

Imagine there was an MNer that we all knew who had cancer and it had probably spread. Say she told us was afraid she was likely to die and had been offered X amount to write a book which would probably be crap and a bundle of nothing, BUT would bring in some cash to look after her children while she was ill (or dead). Would we slate her? Would we call her disgusting and despicable? Really? I seriously doubt it.

TBH I'm not even vaguely interested in this woman and what she does, but I find the general lack of compassion on this tread pretty sad.

I am surprised that anyone is surprised by this. Max Clifford must have been foaming at the mouth snowed under with all this extra work.

he is revolting.

Don't you know, people who get cancer have to sit quietly at home, showing how dignified they are, and must not speak to the press. It's one of the unwritten rules of celebritydom.

If she can make money for her kids in case she isn't around, then why shouldn't she? It only makes money because people buy it - if you don't personally like it, then don't buy.

well if you feel you are having her thrust in your face you are watching too much tv buying the wrong reading matter etc

as the only place isee her mentioned is on mn

admit I haven't heard her mentioned anywhere other than on mn either.

Ts no-one said that if you have cancer you should go home and sit quietly etc etc. But if what is in the press is to be believed, she had surgery on thursday or Friday of last week? then spent time in ICU? so is presumably not even out of hospital yet and the book is on sale less than a week later?

What I find uncomfortable isn't so much the fact that she's selling the book, (that matters not to me as I would never buy it), but the fact that she apparently hasn't told her own children she's ill but is selling it to the public.

Am I the only one that thinks that is wrong?

loobeylou you think she has this from not having a smear or from having children in her twenties or what? not sure your post is relevant.

I think this whole public fascination with people of no significance whatsoever is bizarre. Of course it is sad when anyone gets a serious illness, so of course one should be sympathetic, but I find I am no more of less sympathetic to her as a person than I was before the news. ie not at all. That's because to me she is a completely unlikable person, because she is loud and ignorant. However those qualities that I find unappealing (she is the sort of person I would avoid in the school playground) obviously make her interesting to others. I am sure she is only acting on the advice of her publicist. I do hope that she recovers, but I guess one way or another this is probably the last bit of publicity she can reasonably expect to get, and I suspect that she had t put very little effort into production.

Nobody knows Jade Goody.

You all believe what is written in Heat.

You all BUY Heat!

You are all wasting minutes of your life that you can never get back ever again by discussing someone you do not know, in knowledgable terms.

Do what I am about to and hide this thread.

people have said she should be at home. ie if I were her I'd spend all my time being with my children and fighting the cancer (whatever that means).
The news that she had cancer would have been out there regardless of what she says and does, and someone would have made money out of it, so why not her? She clearly doesn't know what to say to her kids as they are young and her prognosis is positive but uncertain. I think for a small child a 'poorly tummy' is not an inappropriate description. I am sure the eldest's school will help protect him.

'you all believe what is written in heat'

Look at it this way. It'll make a bit of money for whoever has ghosted it, employment that writer wouldn't otherwise have had...

Is it coincidence that the diagnosis was made just as her "boyfriend" was about to be sentenced having been found guilty of serious assault

Medically and for her boys' sake I hope all goes well, but max hastings isn't in his line of work for the public benefit

Well, I think having your womb removed to try to save your boyfriend from going to prison is a bit drastic, don't you think?
Max Clifford is a publicist with a record of encouraging clients to exaggerate stuff, but I doubt very much that he is able to persuade NHS oncologists to join his/her evil plan.

Lordy, surely selling stories on her life is no different to doing a bit of overtime in a 'normal' career? It's a bit of extra money, and it's certainly not her fault that we live in a society where this kind of thing sells books, newspapers and magazines.

"the best thing to come from the whole jade goody thing would be if her story was used in schools to educate teenagers about the risks of having many sex partners, unprotected sex, and starting at too young an age"

I'm quite shocked by this. I am pretty sure that Jade Goddy's cancer was not caused by her having too many sexual partners, unprotected sex etc.

Why should it be down to Jade Goody to educate anyone about these things!?!

I know that Lulubellarama but I don't see why Jade's story in particular should be used to teach this message. No ofence meant though, I guess I just wondered why her story in particular ?