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To not want to hear an update on Jade Goody in every single news bulletin?

102 replies

AmIOdetteOrOdile · 19/02/2009 15:41

It is sad when young women are diagnosed with terminal cancer. It is sad when these women are mothers.

HOWEVER, I do not want Sky News to flash to the hospital to show her wedding dress arriving. I do not want to hear that she wants Girls Aloud to play at her wedding. I do not want to hear every single bloody thing that she is doing.

I understand that she wants to make money for her boys, and I appreciate that. But surely there are more important things going on in the world?

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Itsjustafleshwound · 19/02/2009 17:02

Dare I say it but there is a bit of sniffiness because it is Jade ....

onlyjoking9329 · 19/02/2009 17:04

well to be fair, you can just not look at the news if it bothers. you,Jade can't get rid of her cancer, i think she has opened the subject for general disscusion and raised awareness at the same time, surley thats no bad thing?

buktus · 19/02/2009 17:05

Kylie minoGue neVEr Got tO A POint where she was told she had a 40% chance of survival which in days turnt to 8 weeks to live if she had then im sure it would have been on the news as much as Jade has been

pingping · 19/02/2009 17:06

Well my view is we made her famous and we kept her where she is not only is she the most remembered BB star but she made the most money also she didn't win.

So yeah if she feels what she is doing is for the best then let her do it.

I wouldn't begrudge anyone that was dying.

Sassybeast · 19/02/2009 17:06

Itsjustafleshwound - I think there is truth in what you say but I think it's also because 'probably' no other celebrity has chosen to live out their last days in a media circus ? If anything, the absolute opposite is usually true, with Caron Keating being the one that springs immediately to mind. And I find the argument that 'money' is her main motivation and that's ok as incredibly strange I suppose. I know she's had a shite upbringing but as I've already said, her little boys have got a dad who is doing ok and they are not going to end up destitute ?

MsSparkle · 19/02/2009 17:07

I wish i could get a smear but they won't let me have one for another year when i am 25.

DandyLioness · 19/02/2009 17:10

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MarshaBrady · 19/02/2009 17:10

I've only seen 5 minute coverage on BBC news so far, so I don't feel inundated.

I only feel terribly bad for her and her family, it is so sad. No problem with her doing whatever she wishes to bring in money for her children. As long as she is comfortable with the media attention.

I really don't think she should give any of her £800k mentioned below away to charity, she is doing a pretty good job of raising cancer awareness.

takingabreakhels · 19/02/2009 17:12

mssparkle I hope they lower the age. So do they actually refuse you a test even if you ask? Or is it that automatic reminders start at 25? It doesn't seem right to refuse you one.

littlelyn · 19/02/2009 17:13

AmI OdetteOrOdile - it is not JG who is classifying her "story" as Entertainment!

buktus · 19/02/2009 17:14

She has so much support at the moment maybe the news is showing wat a lot of the country want to hear about and like someone else said on here switch of the tv and when its all over you can have your news channel back and watch political issues instead of being interested in a 27 year old mum of two dying through no fault of her own, trying to do the right thing by her family and cram in as memories into the minds of two little boys as she can in the next 2 months

Itsjustafleshwound · 19/02/2009 17:17

My DH lost his dad under horrible circumstances and often wishes he could just hear his dad's voice ... if it is a way to leave her boys some lasting legacy (and be financially looked after) why not?

hatwoman · 19/02/2009 17:20

yep, there are more important things going on in the world. Radio 4 and BBC 1 would be more than happy to tell you all about them. without mentioning JG.

MmeLindt · 19/02/2009 17:21

I found India Knight's take on Jade Goody very thought provoking

Jade Goody, a broken toy we made and want no more

She is dying. Her sons will grow up without a mother. If the media circus is what she wants and will enable her sons to grow up without worry about money at least, then fine.

It is not what I would want but then it is not my life (and death).

MsSparkle · 19/02/2009 17:22

I have asked 3 times over the years and each time get refused. I just wanted one because i have been sexually active since i was 15, plus i have now had 2 children.

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Sassybeast · 19/02/2009 17:30

MsSparkle - try your local Family Planning Clinic - I've been offered a smear there as mines due round the time of my next appointment (I am really old though )

Ashantai · 19/02/2009 17:33

Well my kneejerk reaction is to wonder why, when she is coping with all of this, is she making such an effort to still be in the public eye, and i dont even watch the news. I do however watch a lot of Living Tv and her shows are on every adbreak.

But i guess its all she has ever known and if this is how she wants to fill her last months, then let her be.

She has raised an awful lot of awareness for cervical cancer and is making steps to see that her boys will be financially secure.

I'm sorry i wont be rushing out to buy Ok mag cos i have never bought it and dont intend to start now, but i do feel for her boys and her family.

wickedwitchofwestfield · 19/02/2009 17:37

YABU - I am the same age as JG and I cannot comprehend what she is going through or indeed feeling.

if all this coverage of her saves just one other woman then it is all worth it IMHO

it must be her natural instinct to want to protect her children - something which she cannot do when she is gone, but she can sure as hell make sure they have a comfortable life and know that their mummy wanted to provide for them until the bitter end... if you like nothing else about her, then admire that surely?

I'll get of me soapbox now

MsSparkle · 19/02/2009 18:13

I went to my local contraception clinic on tuesday to get the inplant done. The lady mentioned a smear and asked if i had had one. I said no and she saw i was 24 and said they would give me one when i was 25.

poopscoop · 19/02/2009 18:19

mssparkle - do they really not give you a routine smear after your baby is born at the 6 week check. If not then that is outrageous.

HMC · 19/02/2009 18:19

If Jade feels comfortable with this, it's what she wants to do, and it's helping distract her / deal with it - then what sort of a miserable fecker would I be to criticise.....

well, that's my take on it anyway .....

poopscoop · 19/02/2009 18:21

agree with HMC

donnie · 19/02/2009 18:26

I don't think you are being unreasonable. However sorry for Jade Goody I may be, I can't help feeling really uncomfortable at the blanket coverage ( we don't have sky but we see the papers in the shops every day etc) her illness is getting.

To me there is something verging on pornographic about it - how far is it going to go? will there be cameras there at the bitter end? are the rights to her corpse being syndicated to the highest bidder as we speak? Not nice. Makes me shudder.

LynetteScavo · 19/02/2009 18:27

If Jades story pervents others dying young from Cerivcal cancer - then bring on the news reports.

I feel distant from this, as though it is a stroy line in Eastenders. I have to reimind myself there is actually a mother who knows her chidren who won't her DC's grow up, and two real little boys who are loosing their mum. Then I want to cry.

If it didn't sell papers, and keep viewers, it wouldn't be reported.