Jade Goody

BATTLING Jade Goody is vowing to summon every last ounce of her remaining strength to walk down the aisle with her groom — in a CHURCH wedding.
The brave mum of two, given just months to live last week, looked likely to marry fiancé Jack Tweed in the chapel of the London hospital where she had to endure exhausting cancer treatment.

But she has revealed she is now desperate to hold Sunday’s poignant ceremony in a church elsewhere.

The Big Brother star, 27, said: “I am going to die in this hospital, so I don’t want to get married here.

“But wherever we tie the knot, I’m determined to walk down that aisle. I’ve lost my balance and the doctors aren’t sure if it’s a sign that the cancer has spread to the brain or if it’s just weakness.

“But I’m hoping I will have the strength to walk on my big day. It would be so cruel to be robbed of that one last thing as well.”

Jade’s vow was revealed after Jack took her out in her wheelchair beside the Thames in London — and officially popped the question in a heart-rending scene which saw him get down on his knees.

He tenderly hugged his dying fiancée as she ecstatically said: “Yes”. Jade, mum to five-year-old Bobby and brother Freddie, four, can no longer stand without support after months of chemotherapy.

But she has begged docs at the Royal Marsden Hospital to help her fulfil her wedding day dream.

She told them: “I will be walking down the aisle on my wedding day. Please help me do that.”

Jade added: “I’m so looking forward to being a bride. And I want to walk toward my groom, just like any other young woman would on what is meant to be the best day of their lives.”

Sad doctors have admitted they are unable to save Jade, first diagnosed with cervical cancer last summer. They are now giving her only palliative treatment to ease her pain.

The star has asked Living TV producer Kate Jackson — part of a film crew documenting Jade’s illness — to be her bridesmaid.

Jack, 21, was seen pushing his fiancée around the shops in a hospital wheelchair as they searched for wedding outfits on Sunday.

The pair also picked out engagement rings from Tiffanys.

Jade’s love for Jack shone through later as they made their way along the Chelsea Embankment beside the Thames — stopping to share kisses and hugs.

They enjoyed a golden moment as they paused to exchange the rings and slip them gently on to one another’s fingers. Giggling Jade seemed briefly to forget her grim battle with cancer — kissing her besotted sweetheart’s hand.

Loyal Jack is to have one usher and a best man at the wedding. Both will wear navy Armani suits.

The groom has looked at a cream morning suit by the Italian designer for himself — while eager Jade chose a £3,500 gown from Harrods, given to her as a gift by store owner Mohamed Fayed.

A Harrods spokesman said yesterday: “We can confirm the chairman has given Jade a complimentary wedding dress worth £3,500 after she came into the store at the weekend.

“His heart goes out to her and her family and he wanted to do something to help.”

Jade’s chosen frock is a cream and ivory exclusive Uranio dress from the Pronovias 2009 collection by Manuel Mota. It is available in just five locations worldwide.

Fashioned from silk mikado, it has a classic design with a high neckline, a V-back and full skirt box pleating.

Celebrities sending their support to Jade have included telly’s Simon Cowell and Dale Winton, while more than 1,000 well-wishers bombarded The Sun’s online message boards. Jade has begun eating apricot seeds — popular with US cancer patients who believe they can offer a miracle cure. Some medical experts have warned the stones can release cyanide when digested. But Jade last night insisted: “What have I got to lose?”

The Sun revealed on Saturday how tragic Jade was given the dreadful news that she was dying.

In her remaining time, she will have Bobby and Freddie christened so that they will know “Mummy is in heaven”.

Jade’s spokesman Max Clifford said yesterday: “She’s hoping that through the church they will find Jesus, and through Jesus she’ll be able to stay in touch with them.”

Meanwhile Living TV bosses have changed the title of Thursday night’s reality show from Jade’s Progress to simply Jade.

They have been unable to film with the star for the past two weeks but have instead interviewed Jack, Jade’s mum Jackiey and several close friends.

Jade has said she may even consider dying on telly if it helps financially secure her children.

Living TV said filming of her illness would resume if she consents.

Elton John has offered to host Jade Goody's upcoming wedding at his £20 million Windsor mansion.
Goody's publicist Max Clifford has revealed that the reality star was "staggered" by the singer's generosity as she prepares to tie the knot with boyfriend Jack Tweed.
Speaking to The Mirror, Clifford added that Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed had gifted the former Big Brother star with a designer wedding dress after she visited the Knightsbridge store with Tweed over the weekend.
"She found the most beautiful dress. Mohamed Al Fayed heard about it and said, 'That's my wedding present to you two'," he said.
Guests at the lavish ceremony will reportedly include Sir Elton, Davina McCall and Jamelia, while Goody's mother Jackiey will give her away.
It is thought that the star is seeking a £3 million magazine deal for the event, which will go towards the trust fund that has been set up for her two young sons.
Clifford told Sky News that no date has been set but suggested that the ceremony will take place "in the next couple of weeks".
The 27-year-old previously revealed that she is desperate to wed Tweed after doctors broke the news that her cervical cancer is terminal.

wow how nice would that be getting married in one of Elton's mansions!

Terminally ill Jade Goody is to marry her fiancé Jack Tweed on Sunday, her publicist confirmed today.

The 27-year-old reality TV star, who was told last week she has just months to live, briefly left London's Royal Marsden Hospital yesterday in a wheelchair to exchange engagement rings with Jack, 21 on the banks of the Thames.

Friend and publicist Max Clifford said today that the couple are preparing for a Sunday ceremony.

And he has also given the biggest hint yet that her real-life tragedy will become a television event to be snapped up by the highest bidder.

He said: "I spoke to Jade last night and it is all on for Sunday."

The couple have chosen plush Down Hall country house, in Hatfield Heath, Hertfordshire as the venue.

Jade told The Sun: "I am going to die in this hospital, so I don't want to get married here.

"But wherever we tie the knot, I'm determined to walk down that aisle."
'I'm so looking forward to being a bride. And I want to walk toward my groom, just like any other young woman would on what is meant to be the best day of their lives.'

She said she has "lost her balance", which the doctors were not sure was a sign of her illness or just general weakness.
"But I'm hoping I will have the strength to walk on my big day. It would be so cruel to be robbed of that one last thing as well," she added.
Jade visited Harrods yesterday looking frail in a wheelchair and picked out her wedding dress, a gift from the store's owner Mohamed Al Fayed.

The gown is a cream and ivory exclusive Uranio dress from the Pronovias 2009collection by Manuel Mota which is made from silk mikado and has a classic design with a high neckline, a V-back and full skirt box pleating.

'We can confirm the chairman has given Jade a complimentary wedding dress worth £3,500 after she came into the store at the weekend.

'His heart goes out to her and her family and he wanted to do something to help,' a Harrods spokesman said yesterday.
The gesture should help her stated wish of generating as much money as possible for a trust fund for her sons Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie.

Meanwhile messages of help and support have been sent by Jonathan Ross, Simon Cowell and Dale Winton.
Speaking on Sky News yesterday, Mr Clifford said: "This has given her something to think about, a happy event.
"The wedding, the Christening of her two boys, these are all positive things to focus on as opposed to the cancer and what is happening to her and what she is going through."
Mr Clifford said the star picked out Armani suits for her two sons.
Jack will also wear Armani for the event and is said to have considered a cream morning suit. He will have one usher and one best man who will be sporting navy suits, according to reports.

Asked about her remaining in the spotlight during her illness, Mr Clifford said: "Jade has said it is the best thing for her and she is doing things the way she wants to do them.
"She will continue to give interviews providing she is medically able to.
"If she wants it stopped, it stops."
The news came after hours after Jack got down on one knee to present her with a diamond engagement ring on the banks of the Thames.

In a touching scene, he slid the diamond on to her finger before wrapping his arms around her.
Her face lit up and, for a moment, the wheelchair-bound mother-of-two appeared to almost forget her harsh fate.
Jack first proposed on Valentine's Day. But the pair repeated the exchange on Chelsea Embankment after buying rings for each other.

It may be the last instalment of her soap opera life which started when, as a 21-year-old dental nurse from South London, she entered the Big Brother house in 2002.

The Channel 4 reality show earned her notoriety and money in equal amounts and a televised ceremony looks certain to stir the same amount of debate.
Publicist Clifford said that Goody was likely to allow cameras to film her forthcoming wedding with Tweed 'because it was a happy event' and would be a 'distraction' from her terminal illness.

She is currently the subject of a Living TV documentary, but Clifford suggested that the broadcast rights to her wedding could be snapped up by a rival broadcaster.

The Living TV crew has not filmed for ten days following the sharp decline in her health and her terminal diagnosis, he added.

But Jade has already hinted that she may allow cameras to capture her death, saying: ‘I’ve lived in front of the cameras. And maybe I’ll die in front of them.’

John Beyer, director of Mediawatch, said: 'She's being helped along by Max Clifford and she says this is something she wants to do.
'But my feeling is whether that's something the viewers want to see. That's what people will be asking - do we really want to see Jade Goody dying on television?'

'Is it really going to help her family if her dying is going to be made into some kind of Big Brother thing?'
The answer, according to Clifford, is yes.

The PR supremo, whose wife Liz died of cancer six years ago, said Miss Goody is determined to 'keep busy' and secure her children's future.
He said: 'I think it's very easy to be critical but wait until you are told you have terminal cancer. Until you have, you can't begin to comprehend. Jade sees this as the best possible life insurance.'


She apparently told him: 'Max, I know I'm ignorant but I want my boys to have the best possible education money can buy and I am going to make sure I do that for them so that when they grow up they know that mum did that.
'I want to make as much money as I possibly can for them.'
Mr Clifford added: 'She will continue to give interviews provided she is medically able to. It's purely governed by how Jade feels. If she wants it stopped, it stops.'

At present, Jade is refusing to tell her children of her fate.
'They don't know what death means and it will frighten them,' she said.
'So in the end I just told them my tadpoles [the cancer] had had babies, they were swimming around inside me and they have made Mummy much sicker than she was.'
She said that when doctors revealed on Friday that her cancer was terminal, 'I just screamed and cried and said, "Can't anyone do anything to help me!"
'I didn't want to believe it. I know they've done everything they can to help me and I'm grateful. But I really thought I might be OK. I was still praying for a miracle.'

She plans to complete her will at her home in Essex this week and is expected to leave her money and her three properties to her children.

Jade Goody's boyfriend has revealed that the couple are facing daily heartbreak due to his electronic tag.

Jack Tweed, 21, must comply with a strict curfew following his early release from prison, meaning that he must leave his partner's bedside each night.

Goody remains in hospital after being told that she has just months to live last week. She accepted a proposal from Tweed shortly after hearing the news from doctors.

Speaking to OK! magazine, Tweed explained: "I hate thinking of her going through all this by herself. But I can't change that. But she knows I love her and would be there if I could."

"It is hard to see the one you love so much look so ill, but it still feels the same when I kiss her, I still fancy her," he continued. "There's nothing different."

Tweed, who was jailed for assault in September, added that he would "rather do life in prison" than live without Goody.

Jade Goody has signed an exclusive £700,000 deal with OK! for the media rights to her wedding, it has emerged.
The ceremony will take place at Down Hall country house in Hatfield Heath, Hertfordshire, Sky News reports.
Associate editor of the magazine Philip Gould said: "There is a lot of interest in this wedding because Jade is such a popular person and I think people do want to be there on the day with us.
"So the best way that this can be achieved is by being in a magazine like OK!.
"All the money that Jade will get will go into a trust fund for her two boys."
He added that photographs of the wedding will feature in the publication next week, provided that Goody is well enough to walk down the aisle on Sunday.
Goody was also reported to have sent back her wedding dress to Harrods for some adjustments, including the addition of a pouch to keep her drugs in.
The Big Brother star's fiancé Jack Tweed said this week that he and Goody must part every night because of the electronic tag he has to wear since his early release from prison.

Jade Goody is reportedly desperate for Girls Aloud to play at her wedding this weekend.

The reality TV star is said to be a big fan of the band and wants them to perform at her nuptials at Down Hall country house on Sunday.

"Jade has said that she would really like Girls Aloud to play her wedding," OK! associate editor Phil Gould told Sky News.

"She adores Girls Aloud and this would really make her big day if they would do it. There's phenomenal interest in Jade's wedding."

The magazine recently signed an exclusive £700,000 deal with Goody to secure the photo rights to the ceremony.

Boyfriend Jack Tweed proposed to the star on Valentine's day after she was told that her cancer was terminal.

Gordon Brown has praised Jade Goody's "determination" to provide for her family.

Speaking at his monthly news conference at Downing Street, the Prime Minister expressed his sympathy for the terminally ill reality star.

"It's very sad and indeed tragic that someone so young has got this deadly disease... and it's very sad indeed that the treatment that has been given has not been successful," he told reporters.

However, Brown praised Goody's "determination to help her family" by selling the rights to her wedding, adding: "[It] is something that we've got to applaud."

Goody, 27, has confirmed that she will marry her boyfriend Jack Tweed at Down Hall in Hertfordshire on Sunday.

OK! has paid £700,000 for the exclusive images of the ceremony, while Living TV has reportedly pledged £100,000 for the rights to broadcast the event on TV.

SUCKING a “lollipop” of painkillers, Jade Goody was wheeled from her cancer hospital to an ambulance yesterday — after the dying Big Brother star begged: “Please take me home.”

The brave bride-to-be — who has been given just weeks to live — declared: “I’ve had enough here. I want to see grass and rolling fields.”

Too frail to stand, she was taken by wheelchair from her room at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London’s Chelsea.

The 27-year-old, who plans to wed on Sunday, valiantly tried to walk to the ambulance but was too weak.

She had to be wheeled out and lifted inside — still hooked to a morphine drip.

Jade, who hid her bald head under a scarf, had earlier told a friend how she pined for the countryside around her Essex home. She said: “I’ve got a lovely view from my bedroom. I can get more ill here — or more ill there.”

The ambulance carefully took her the 20 miles to her house in Upshire.

Mum-of-two Jade — whose public battle with her disease has gripped the nation — smiled and managed a weak wave as she was lifted out.

She went home as PM Gordon Brown yesterday paid tribute to her, declaring: “The whole country will be worried and anxious about her health.”

His message came as Jade backed a campaign to have the age for cervical screening in England reduced from 25 to 20 — as it is in Scotland and Wales.

She said: “It’s important as many women as possible get checked.”

Jade is to wed after boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21 — wearing a tag after being freed early from his jail term for assault — popped the question on Friday.

Minutes earlier his tearful bride-to-be had been given the grim news her cervical cancer had spread and was inoperable.

Pals said Sunday’s wedding — which Jade was determined would not be held in the hospital chapel — was the “only thing keeping her going”.

The couple will tie the knot in front of 150 guests at Down Hall country manor in Hatfield Heath, Essex — where Jade has vowed to WALK down the aisle.

Jack said of his bride — whose hospital bed was yesterday transported to her home and installed in her bedroom: “She’ll be down that aisle — even in that hospital bed. I’ll wheel the hospital bed down there.”

A helicopter is on standby to whisk Jade back to her house for a celebration after the couple wed — although that party may have to be cancelled if she collapses.

Yesterday it emerged that as well as organising her wedding day using a laptop in hospital, Jade has been making plans for her own FUNERAL.

She wants Paolo Nutini’s heartbreaking track Last Request played. It is one of her and Jack’s favourite love songs.

Bravery ... Jade Goody tries to walk from hospital and, inset, her hospital bed is transported to her home

Poignant lines include: “Sure I can accept that we’re going nowhere, but one last time let’s go there. Lay down beside me.”

Yesterday Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty — victim of last year’s infamous Big Brother race row — revealed she and Jade chatted over the phone on Sunday.

Shilpa, 33, said Jade invited her to the wedding although she will be unable to make it.

She said: “In our conversation, she invited me to the funeral. It’s so heart-wrenching.”

Goodwill messages for Jade continued to pour in from thousands of Sun readers last night.

Yesterday Jack got news from his probation officer that his 7am to 7pm curfew is likely to be temporarily suspended for the wedding night.

That would allow the couple’s celebration party to be switched from Jade’s home to the wedding venue.

Jade wants Girls Aloud to sing at the bash. Nadine Coyle — due to fly to Los Angeles the next day — was last night desperately trying to rearrange the trip. A spokesman for her and bandmates Cheryl Cole, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh said: “They are keen to make it happen.”

Jade, who is being cared for at home by a Macmillan nurse, is expected to return to hospital after her wedding — which is set to net her almost £1million in exclusive deals.

She is using the time left to her to build up a legacy for sons Bobby, five, and Freddie, four.

A documentary about her illness goes out tonight on Living TV. In it, cancer-ravaged Jade describes “fighting for her femininity” as her wedding approaches.

Her PR guru Max Clifford yesterday said filming would stop with the wedding — and NOT record Jade’s death.

He insisted: “There will be no filming of Jade dying. It has not even been thought about — nor will it be.”

Girls Aloud are "desperately trying" to rearrange their schedule so that they can perform at Jade Goody's wedding on Sunday.

The girlband revealed that they are trying to postpone previous arrangements after learning that the Big Brother star wanted them to play at the ceremony.

"We have had contact from Jade's people about performing at her wedding and it's now in the hands of our management," Sarah Harding said.

"We are desperately trying to rearrange our schedule so we can do it. It's a very sad thing to have to discuss."

Band member Nadine Coyle was expected to return to Los Angeles this weekend, but is now reportedly trying to change her flight.

Goody has signed an exclusive deal with OK! magazine that will see her fetch £700,000 for the exclusive rights to photos of her tying the knot with boyfriend Jack Tweed.

The star was proposed to on Valentine's Day after being told that her cancer was terminal.

I am truly sorry for her and her family but no more please I am sick and tired of reading about this wedding and who is going and what it's costing - there are millions more dying of cancer in the country so I would rather think about those people that Jade - I don't mean this in a bad way, I am just sick and tired of it all now.