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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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Idrankthechristmasspirits · 19/02/2009 18:31

um, it was actually on Sky news this morning that JG has asked for the press to stop reporting every little detail as she now wants privacy in her final few weeks bar the wedding day.

More power to her if she can broker a large deal whilst dealing with terminal cancer. Her boys should rightly grow up proud of a mother who worked as hard as she could in her final few months to provide for them and raise awareness of this particular type of cancer.

ilovemydogandMrObama · 19/02/2009 18:32

She has deteriorated so quickly

Is this because of the chemo?

Idrankthechristmasspirits · 19/02/2009 18:36

No, it's because the cancer had spread so far and is agressive.

donnie · 19/02/2009 18:36

I keep thinking about Princess Diana and those paparazzi wolves who took photographs of her as she lay dying, and when she had just died.

MrsFreud · 19/02/2009 18:41

YANBU, the problem is that Jade is doing the only thing she knows how, as she has been for the last 7(?) years - selling her lifestory for cash.

Its a very rocky road and very sad that she has no other talents/education to use to make an income. It is almost criminal that the media companies have no qualms about putting her up there or knocking her down or whatever sells papers. Her dying of cancer is just a sales oppertunity, don't kid yourself that they care about promoting smear tests! they could do that anyway if they really wanted to (of course they don't!!!)

Its all about money, the fact that msears have ibcreased by 21% is a happy coincidence and not an excuse for this bloody oggling.

MrsFreud · 19/02/2009 18:48

donnie...Diana was another one who sold her soul to the press to her own benifit, but unlike Jade she had the priviledges and money to not to have had to!

donnie · 19/02/2009 18:50

well I disagree with you MrsFreud - but however you look at it the intrusiveness of the press in situations like this is in my view akin to pornography. Or snuff movies.

Icanseethesea · 19/02/2009 18:50

This is a young mother who, until a few months ago, had a whole life time ahead of her. If being in the public eye is how she deals with her situation, then I for one can put up with the regular news bulletins. I neither like nor dislike her, but if she can do what she can to provide a stable future for her young boys, then let her, I say.

mshadowsisfab · 19/02/2009 18:58

I don't think the ok is being unreasonable.
I hate seeing this played out on the tv, it is very sad for all the people concerned. but I find it odd that it is so prominet on the news tbu.it is not like sh has ever sone something to be famous for(talent)
There was a bit just now on itv news about Jack the pratt wanting his curfew lifted on his wedding night sure the boy he beat up with a golf club would be against that.
I am glad more women are getting smears done though.

GypsyMoth · 19/02/2009 19:02

after Sunday I doubt we will hear or see anymore untill one day the headlines report her death. Then it will be the full life story reports,funeral and then no more. That will be it.

I like the idea of 'jades legacy'..... Where some fund or charity helps future sufferers. She may even have secured some of her earnings to increase awareness.

Shhhh · 19/02/2009 19:15

yes yabu...

on your tv/radio you have an on/off switch..try pressing it.

DandyLioness · 19/02/2009 19:22

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HolyGuacamole · 19/02/2009 19:27

Not read all of this thread but isn't sky news exactly the same whatever is happening in the world, no matter what happening, everything is 'breaking news' nowadays. Yeah it's annoying but no more annoying than other bits of news?

I don't grudge Jade the news to be honest. I'm not a fan but anything that helps her to help her kids in the future, fair play to her.

Can't even begin to imagine what it's like to be in her shoes

lou031205 · 19/02/2009 20:06

Think marmadukescarlet said it all...

CrackerNut · 19/02/2009 20:09

I can't believe that there is yet another thread with people trying to tell Jade how they think she should live the rest of her life.

The thread last night was bad enough and actually had me awake half the night because I couldn't stop thinking about how awful this whole thing is.

She is dying and has to put up with people commenting on wether she is handling it in the right way. IMO that is so fucked up.

takingabreakhels · 19/02/2009 21:15

mssparkle I am still feeling so cross that despite wanting a smear you can't get one. I wonder whether you could challenge them by asking to get one done in Wales or Scotland as the service is provided there (not that you'll have to go there if your life of bringing up children is any-thing like mine!!

elkiedee · 19/02/2009 21:32

I'm shocked that they've raised the age at which cervical smears are offered so much, when I was younger it was at least from 18, if not younger... I think I went for my first test as a university student.

stepfordwife · 19/02/2009 22:27

good luck to her - if selling her story in her dying days secures a future of hope and opportunity for her sons she never had - who's got the right to judge?

so, yes, YABU - you've got the choice to switch off, sadly, the only choice she has left is to fight for her sons.

also, fed-up with people (general point, not directed at OP or any other posters on thread).. saying..
'oh..just because she's famous..what about all the other women dying from cervical cancer? doesn't mean she deserves more sympathy."

true...but doesn't mean she deserves any less sympathy either. she's a 27-year-old woman faced with the prospect of leaving two young children when she isn't ready to leave them and, maybe more importantly, they're not ready to be left.
whether that's ms sleb or ms normal, the anguish is the same.
puts things in perspective...

mum2samandalex · 19/02/2009 22:46

yabu ive been following the jade storey and being the same age and with two young boys i cannot imagine what she is going through.It actually upset me because unlike your other normal celeb jade is completely herself worts and all. Even removing her head scarf should be applauded how brave is that regardless of how much money she might of been paid.I really like jade because she doesnt pretend to be someone shes not. I think alot of people almost feel like they really do know her in a sense which is why we all feel for her. Id rather read about her then posh spice and her 80k handbag.Im actually upset that people could moan about her tbh especially as shes unlikely to be around much longer

lollipopmother · 19/02/2009 22:48

I understand that she has increased awareness for cancer etc but I just see selling her death story as really really sad. Where's the privacy? She has weeks to live, she has two boys, a soon to be husband, a family. I just can't see why she would be spending her last few weeks speaking to cameras and reporters instead of her family, it is really bloody sad, and to me it is also really odd.

Sorry, but I don't really buy the bit where she's 'making money for her kids'. She's sold every part of her life already and she isn't exactly skint, this isn't any different except it's a different sort of tragic and instead of being a tacky story about such and such it is a story with a seriously tragic end.

Oh, and I like how everyone in the press is suddenly her best friend now that she's dying, before it was them vilifying her etc, two-faced money-grabbers.

I don't particularly 'like' Jade, her sort of celebrity is not to my taste, but no one deserves such a horrid end.

wrongsideof40 · 19/02/2009 23:12

MsSparkle - can i add something to the debate about starting smear testing at age 25 in England ? I was confused about this because it used to be lower - so I did some digging and the reasons are (apparently), research showed young women

mumtolou · 19/02/2009 23:15

i think this whole episode is very sad.can you imagine being told you only have weeks to live and knowing that your not going to be there to see your 2 young sons grow up.....how must she feel and everyone else that is suffering from a terminal ilness .knowing that if they cry you wont be there to comfort them heart breaking.the only thing now jade can do for her sons if give them a stable future with money so they can still live the life they are used to .anybody in her shoes would do the same.as for news coverage on sky if people was not interested in jade and her illness then it would not be shown.she has done wonders for cervical cancer and i hope she lives the rest of her days pain free .if you dont like what your watching turn it off no one is standing there telling you to watch it !!!!

mshadowsisfab · 19/02/2009 23:16

but it is everywhere.
this is the same woman that was slagged of and called a racist nopt so long ago.
look how many threds there are on here ffs. it is sick.

TheyCallMePeachy · 20/02/2009 08:55

She has said apaprenly that after the wedding and a apossible interview with Piers Morgan (whom she knows apparently) that's it for the publicity.

I think it's a positive that people have moved onwards:forgiveness is massively important.

lilacclaire · 20/02/2009 10:07

I think its great what she's doing so yes I think YABU.

She's raising cancer awareness and the reality of living and dying with cancer and the fact that no-one is immune.

It's so tragic that this young mum is going to be leaving her 2 young kids, she must be terrified about leaving them and she's providing for them the best she can.

The only reason I wouldn't want to see it as much is because I feel like having a big blub every time I see her and think how angry/terrified she must be and of course how her boys will cope after she is gone

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