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WREATHS spelling out Jade Goody’s best-known sayings — including “Minging” and “East Angula” — will accompany the reality TV star on her final journey today.
Thousands of mourners are expected to turn out to pay their respects as she wanted her funeral to be a fun event.
Mum-of-two Jade, 27, planned the service herself before she died from cervical cancer last month.
And she showed typical humour in requesting wreaths depicting key elements of her life including a perfume bottle, newspaper and camera.
Floral arrangements will also include the word “kebab” — from one of her infamous Big Brother moments — and a Marmite jar after she compared herself to the spread, saying: “You either love me or hate me.”
Florist Nancy Arif said Jade’s husband Jack Tweed had asked for the word “Wife” in white, just like the flowers at their wedding six weeks ago.
Nancy added: “One of her friends has asked me to do ‘Legend’. It’s an honour to do this for Jade, and we will try to do her proud, and make the flowers as beautiful as she was.”
Other floral arrangements will spell out the words “Daughter”, “Granddaughter” and “Mummy” — with a huge “Goody” emblazoned on the roof of the hearse.
The flowers, including a wreath sent by David and Victoria Beckham, will be carried by four cars.
A 21-vehicle funeral cortege will follow the vintage hearse carrying Jade’s coffin when it sets off at 8.30am from Bermondsey, South London, where she was born.
The procession will continue at walking pace to Jade’s childhood home on the Dickens Estate, where her mum Jackiey still lives.
It will also stop briefly at the Blue Market, where traders will follow tradition and bow their heads in respect.
Jade’s grandfather John Caddock — who used to run a stall at the market — said last night: “I’m expecting a sea of people everywhere we go.”
The procession will cross Tower Bridge en route to Jade’s home in Upshire, Essex.
Jade’s coffin will also pass the beautician’s parlour which she used to part-own in Loughton, Essex.
Mourners will then walk from Loughton to the service at St John the Baptist Church in nearby Buckhurst Hill.
Grieving Jack, 21, will read out a heartbreaking poem he wrote for Jade, before releasing a single white dove to mark their love as she is laid to rest in her wedding dress at Epping Burial Ground.
A further 27 doves, one for each year of her life, will be released as Jade is lowered into the ground.
Two of her favourite photographs of her sons have been placed in her coffin, which was sealed by her mum yesterday.
A family friend said: “There won’t be a dry eye in the church or at the burial.”
Jade’s sons Bobby, five, and Freddie, four, have been taken to Australia with dad Jeff Brazier to avoid the public gaze.
Well-wishers continued to leave flowers at Jade’s home yesterday.
Cancer survivor Sally Chambers, 32, said: “Jade was like a shining light to me and I feel I’d be letting her down if I wasn’t at the funeral.”
Anglican bishop David Hawkins, whose diocese covers Jade’s home, praised her for facing death with “reality and courage”.
The Rt Rev Hawkins said her actions would help others. He added: “Amidst the sadness that a young mother’s life has been cut short, the funeral will also be a celebration of a 27-year-old who lived life to the full.”
From The Sun
That would explain some of the high costs, all those flowers, which need 4 cars alone :eek:
WTF. 21 cars along with the hearse. What a senseless waste of money. From my time in the business I know that floral tributes like MUM etc cost around £50 PER LETTER!!!!!!!. All this wasted money on flowers which will be as dead as Jade in a weeks time. She lived like a Chav, married like a Chav, died like a Chav and now is being buried with full chav honours.:wall: These people make me want to vomit.
She could have used the money to ensure her name lived on like spending it on a Cancer Ward or buying equipment to research this terrible disease.
Instead they spend a fortune on a tacky wedding and funeral. What a sad bunch of losers.
at the end of the day she earned money for her sons, she got the wedding she wanted and now she has the funeral she wanted which she paid for before she died. she has donated money fromm her book yes she could have donated more but this is the funeral she wanted, dont we all have ideas for the tyoe of funeral we want??? dont familys do whatever they can to grant that last wish.
Hopefully this is the last we will hear of it all for a while.
RIP jade and thanks, im one women who put off her smear for months, mine was due a long time ago and now because of the publicity from this i have now booked my smear!
I don't need somebody like Jade to remind me to get a test done, you hear of people getting the disease all the time. She was a rude, foul-mouthed, racist, her dying a horrible death does not change my view of her. Other cancer sufferers raise loads of money for cancer charities, nothing special about her. It is all down to Max Clifford advising her, otherwise we would not have heard that much about her.
What exactly do you mean she died like a chav??? I am by no means a fan of JAde and I think both the media and public have totally gone over the top with this 'princess of Essex' business.... but I think the way she conducted herself after being told she had weeks to leave, earned my respect. Yes, it was done in full public view (but who can knock her motives - to provide for her sons, after her death?), but she made her finally weeks count...Quote:
Originally Posted by alan45
If family and friends wanted to spend THEIR money on buying flowers for her funeral, then soooo what? Why shouldn't they? I'd do the same for a member of my family or friend.
Im sorry PB I have to disagree with you. The way she and the hangers on behaved in the days leading up to her death was disgusting. I blame the media as much as her publicity seeking hangers on. She was a nobody and yet to see the way she got on and was treated you would think she was royalty. The way she behaved in the weeks leading up to her death did not earn my respect. I just wonder how many other women suffered the same painful death that she undoubtedly suffered in the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by PinkbananaWhat exactly do you mean she died like a chav??? I am by no means a fan of JAde and I think both the media and public have totally gone over the top with this 'princess of Essex' business.... but I think the way she conducted herself after being told she had weeks to leave, earned my respect. Yes, it was done in full public view (but who can knock her motives - to provide for her sons, after her death?), but she made her finally weeks count...Quote:
Originally Posted by alan45
If family and friends wanted to spend THEIR money on buying flowers for her funeral, then soooo what? Why shouldn't they? I'd do the same for a member of my family or friend.
Of course her family and friends are free to spend THEIR money on flowers for her. Personally I feel that they are a terrible waste of money. I prefer to give flowers to someone when they are alive to appreciate them rather than see them rotting on top of a grave. One simple wreath or spray is nicer and more dignified than spending hundreds of pounds on daft floral tributes which will be dead in a week and tossed on a skip.
I have to agree with Alan on the amount of flowers wreaths. We have a local daily newspaper where they have the hatches, matches and despatches (birth, marrige and death) if you look at those who have died many say family flowers only but give donations to named charities. Posh spice was reported to send a wreath, that wouldn't have been cheap were the money could have been spent on treatment and medication.
The wreaths with the marmite jar and minging was just an insult. We all know she wasn't the brightest pixie in the forrest but let her have some dignity in death as she had none in life, and show some compasion to her two young sons. Mum, Daughter and Jade would have been more fitting.
Have a read of this. This is an inspiration to anyone suffering from Cancer.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ation-end.html
Jade deserve to be admired for what she has done in the last 6 months I know a lot don't agree with her having the camera filming her and getting paid for it but she was doing it to provide a decent upbring for her sons something she didn't have, but it's the banwagon jumpers who get on my nerves, they are the ones who are making a mockery of her memory she may not be Jane Tomlinson but in her own way she tried to raise awarness of cancer.
If all those mourners who lined the streets today donated a fiver instead of throwing a flower it could have paid for a nurses wages for a day or week. If Jack want's the world to remember Jade give her the respect in death that she never had in life. If he wants Jade's legacy to live on then he should be the one to take if forward by raising funds for cancer research.
Jade Goody's two young children have sent messages in a bottle saying her "little men" loved her and thought about her all the time.
Bobby, five, and Freddie, four, did not attend the funeral because they are on holiday in Australia with their father, Jeff Brazier, who also paid tribute to "their one in a million mother".
The three held their own ceremony hours before the funeral on the beach at a private resort near Sydney.
In the letters, published by the News of the World, the boys wrote: "To Mummy, Please speak to God and ask him to make the clouds go away on holiday because we can't see the stars.
"We love you very much and speak about you every day, we know you are with us when we play on the beach, eat our dinner and even when we are colouring in pictures for you, we know we can talk to you and you'll hear us.
"You are always in our thoughts and in our hearts mum, we are proud of you and you'll never to be forgotten"
It ended: "We miss you, love your little men, Bobby and Freddie."
Jade's two sons also drew pictures for her and put them in the bottle which they launched into the ocean, the newspaper reported.
Their father, Mr Brazier, 29, also paid tribute to Jade, saying she gave the couple "the two things that mean the most".
"The boys have amazed me with their strength and you'll always be remembered, as we discussed, you never forget where you're from and the boys will learn so much about love, strength, kindness, self belief, determination and enjoying what you have in life simply from the many stories I have for them about their one in a million mother," he wrote in a letter.
Jade reportedly made around £8m in her short career with her perfume, fitness DVD etc. Was there really this need to publicise her wedding and dying with the eternal excuse of wanting to provide for her sons? With advisers like Max Clifford around, she would have got decent advice on investing that money she already had. Could she not have raised the money for charities to help other sufferers and trying to find a cure? :hmm:
She could have but then her publicity seeking family and hangers on would not have been able to make money from her death. Max Clifford does not work for the goodness of his health. Im sure he made a few quid out of Jades painful death. Im sure her delightful Mum Jackey and her new hubby will both be publishing books about the late ''Princess'' Jade:rolleyes: :thumbsdow :sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
IMO it was Max Clifford who turned Jade Goody and her cancer into a media circus. We do not know whether she recieved financial advice from him, but I am sure someone will have been involved on that score.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
However, I do not really think he was being altruistic when he got involved with her, after all there is no such thing as bad press, and news or a topic like this was hardly low profile from the begining, was it?
I do though, believe that her condition being in the news, has raised awareness about cervical cancer - which is no bad thing and if in doing so it makes this dreadful condition a news item and helps to save womens' lives I think it is forgiveable. Maybe the cancer charities have benefited in some way, but that is yet to be declared.
Her children are hopefully now protected financially, which was I understand her main concern.
I only hope that Jack Tweed does not manage to make money out of her misfortune.:nono:
*T* :confused:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle2360323.ece
this includes Jack's "poem" to Jade. Did any one think the cost putting up those wide screens outside .. seemed like a WASTE of money??? :searchme: I think so :(
Jack managed to do the Poem without his sunglasses, :rolleyes:
wow look at this picture i saw on new of the world website of jacks watch..he didnt do to bad did he!!
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/mult...2_0_33783a.jpg BRUSHING AWAY A TEAR: Jack carries the coffin wearing the £8,500 Cellini Rolex Jade gave him as a wedding gift
He really didn't do bad at all,, a 21 yr old with a fancy rolex. I think they made sure that that watch and ring were on the CAM side so people would not miss it.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
That Max Clifford is going to cash in on this and he can retire early( probably with in the next few months ) :wall: :thumbsdow
Who needs a watch worth that much? It only tells you the time lol.
This is what P's me off - she was adamant that all the money she was making was for her sons, hence the publicity but she could splash out £8,500 on a watch, this is what I consider double standards - some people have to live on less that that in a year - not such a Bermondsey princess now.
I cant believe today's paper are calling her princess :angry: It sad she died at such a young age and left two young boys behind but lets call a spade a spade here she was no saint - her legacy is get on Big Brother take all your clothes off and act like an idiot and a racist and hey presto your famous
DEVOTED fans have turned tragic Jade Goody’s final resting place into a shrine.
They quickly discovered the secret location where the reality TV icon is buried.
And yesterday scores of tearful well-wishers made an emotional pilgrimage to the peaceful site to say their own final farewell.
Many wiped away tears as they added flowers to the growing mound at the picturesque graveside – some spelling out “wife”, “daughter” and “granddaughter”.
Only close family had attended the graveside ceremony after the funeral on Saturday as guests and fans respected wishes for the burial to be in private.
No-one other than Jade’s inner circle of friends and family had even been told the venue.
But fans desperate for their own final moment with Jade soon flocked to the quiet spot, set among rolling hills in the Essex countryside, to pay tribute to the 27-year-old, who died of cervical cancer two weeks ago.
Many more went to Jade’s house in Upshire, Essex, to pay their respects to Jade’s mum, Jackiey Budden, 50, as she recovered from the ordeal of Saturday’s funeral service.
Yesterday moving details of the farewell bash at Blakes Golf Club emerged.
Jade’s sons Bobby, five, and Freddy, four, had written messages which said “We love you mummy” before they went to Australia with dad Jeff Brazier, 29.
The messages were put inside cream-coloured balloons and released at the wake.
The 150 mourners were reduced to tears as they watched a video montage of Jade’s life story made especially for the occasion.
Bishop Jonathan Blake, who wed Jade and husband Jack Tweed, gave out a special prayer card he had written for the wake.
He said: “Jade was a beautiful person, she still lives on in all of us. Sometimes when people speak, you will still hear Jade in their voice.”
Jack, 21, moved upstairs with pals where he was comforted, sticking to Jade’s wishes for a booze ban.
The mood lightened as guests, including pop star Jamelia, 28, played Connect 4 in the afternoon sunshine.
Mourners including pop star Antony Costa, 27, Jamelia’s footballer husband Darren Byfield, 32, restaurateur Aldo Zilli, 53, and Jade’s agent Max Clifford, 65, sipped tea and coffee.
They shared their memories and funny stories about larger-than-life Jade. Waitresses gave out lemon sole and chicken goujons, platters of sandwiches, cheese and leek tartlets, roast beef and Yorkshire puddings with horseradish sauce and small pieces of cod with fat-cut chips.
The delicacies were followed up with canapes and more giant marble platters with fanned-out layers of fruit, cheese and vegetables.
Chef Mark Hardy, 32, and his colleagues spent two days preparing the food. He said: “It was an honour to cook for Jade’s family. She has changed the world by making people more aware of cancer.”
Big-hearted bosses at the upmarket golf club have waived the fee for the wake out of respect for Jade.
Jackiey moved upstairs with other guests to a large table in the bar area where they flicked through photo albums, and was the last to leave.
This is ruddy ridiculous. :angry:
Enough already.. I am sick of the whole thing as it is,, Jack Tweed " goes off upstairs with his pals to respect Jades NO BOOZE REQUEST" BULL POO POO .. now they are calling her grave site a VENUE ???since when is a cemetary called a venue ??
I presume that Jade's house is now going to become part of a NATIONAL SHRINE.. and museum ? :eek:
I hope those two little boys stay in Australia, at least there, they will not be bothered by this media circus joke that is surrounding their mother:rolleyes:
If the public are going to see where Jade resting place is then Jack and Jackie are to blame they are the ones who made everyone of Jade's breath she made in the last few days of her life public knowledge. they are the ones who organised the showcase of a circus when they could have had a private service instead of a street parade.
Jack is got his 30 pieces of silver from the public and milked Jade's death for everything he could now he wants the public to go away well tough, life isn't like that. He should have thought about the knock-on effect what it would have.
You can be sure that over the coming weeks and months Jack, Jackey and Uncle Max will milk this death for all its worth. I fully expect there to be a book and a DVD of the ''Life and Times of Princess Jade''.
Jade Goody died horrible a painful death and lets not take away from that but for people to cash in on it is just DISGUSTING in my opinion. The funeral was more like a circus parade.
I watched the funeral on TV as my mum sky+ed it and i just happened to be downstairs watching the grand national race as we just do a pound bet between family and i wanted to see how i did, well i wasnt going to stay down and watch the funeral when mum put it on but the flowers on the side of the car were bugging me as to what they said and so i watched it to find out though we fowarded through boring bits (joys of sky+ folks) and having seen what i did of it im in too minds about alot of things involving Jade now.
- I am sick of the whole Jade thing because she is just everywhere now and in that respect i do wish she kept the entire thing private
- but having said that she has done a fantastic thing for women around the world, and if Bobby & Freddy do get the life she didn't then that is also fantastic
- but then the other side of that is that only the boys and maybe her mum should get the money from this
- Part of me thinks the funneral should not have been so OTT because she was not royalty and no one really gave a damn about her before the cancer thing happened, why now?
- but then it was something Jade wanted to happen and i think the fact it was open to public and there were flowers in honour really of what Jade really meant to fans (ie East Angular) was probably really nice for true fans, i do think however that people are two faced over this, no one even wanted the name Jade Goody mentioned two years ago, now she can do no wrong
- I also agree with who ever said that the money from the flowers that the public chucked at the car could have gone to some cancer charity rather than to a bonnet of a car
- but then again i think the throwing flowers thing meant something to fans
- final thing really is, i dont think she should be referred to as a princess, she got her fame through her loud mouth/dumb blonde moments and sexual antics on big brother, half the time no one liked her, or if they did it wasnt many of them, without big brother she would mean nothing to anyone, she was just some big mouthed Essex girl no different to people we see on the streets or any of us on here, she dont deserve the title princess just because she raised awareness of cancer, so many other people do what she did but are not heard about or even regarded as a princess because they did not sell stories to papers etc
im annoyed by the fact that the funeral directors said they would put their fee in the trust fund for the 2 boys and that the place where the wake was held didnt charge anything. if this had been any other person the family would have to have had paid the fees and no one would have been kind enough to put money into any young children who might have been lefts trust funds, who would probably need it more as jades kids have already been left loads from the publicity. i feel the funeral directors etc are just doing it to get publicity for themselves
I agree with you there. I thought it was very undignified the way Barry (Albin) Dyer took off his hat and waved to the crowds. This is hardly the way one would expect a Funeral Director to appear.Quote:
Originally Posted by di marco
Surely the boys would have been left well off anyways from Jade's earnings and their dad Jeff's earnings - money isnt everything keeping them safe and loved also is vital and they way this circus is being potrayed the in media it doesnt show Jade or her family as good parent role models. Surely she should have wanted her kids out of the limelight which is not going to happening now their mother's death is everywhere. I'm sorry she maybe dead but she is not a good role model or parent by any means.
Jack Tweed has reportedly revealed that he wants to be buried alongside his late wife Jade Goody.
According to The Sun, the family have bought a double plot in the graveyard at St. Thomas's Church in Essex, where Goody was buried last Saturday.
"If I go I want to be next to Jade so we can lie together forever. If anything happened to me I want to know I’ll be with her," he is quoted as telling friends.
The 21-year-old visited his wife's grave with mother-in-law Jackiey Budden yesterday. Discussing her daughter's burial plot, Budden is reported to have said: "It's a beautiful place and a fantastic view. Jade would have been so happy."
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Goody's publicist Max Clifford admitted that Tweed was finding it "difficult" to cope without his wife.
"They were soulmates and complemented each other. Now she's gone, there's a dreadful realisation he has to get on with his life," he explained. "He told me, 'There's a great big hole in my life and I don't know how I'm going to fill it'."
Earlier, it was reported that the family wanted fans to "respect" the reality star's final resting place after around 100 people visited the site to take photographs at the weekend.
He is only 21 years old. Surely he will get married again at some time and have a family. Should he not be buried with his then wife rather with the one he only married because she was dying and it was her wish to be married to him before she did. And it got him a little spending money too. :rolleyes:
Hopefully as soon as Jeff returns from Australia with the children he will say "enough is enough" to the media and refuse permission for them to take photos of the boys, which as their Dad he obviously has every right to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by tammyy2j
They tend to pixel out the face of celebritie's children but I am sure that we will continue to see more photos of them for many years to come - especially on special days like first day at school, first Christmas, first anniversary of Jade's death etc.
Sir Michael Parkinson has blasted the late Jade Goody for representing "all that's paltry and wretched about Britain today".
Writing in the Radio Times, the legendary broadcaster admitted that Goody had cemented her place in television history but claimed her achievements were "nothing to be proud of".
"Her death is as sad as the death of any young person, but it's not the passing of a martyr or a saint or, God help us, Princess Di... When we clear the media smokescreen from around her death, what we're left with is a woman who came to represent all that's paltry and wretched about Britain today," he said.
He continued: "She was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know both drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile. Then she was projected to celebrity by Big Brother and from that point on became a media chattel to be manipulated and exploited till the day she died."
Speaking to The Mirror, Goody's spokesperson Max Clifford said: "I'm very sad and surprised."
Goody, 27, passed away on Mother's Day after losing her battle with cervical cancer.
Does anybody know whether she was ever on his show? :searchme:
Apparently, he did say some time ago that he would like to interview her, as she has an 'interesting back story' which makes you think this might be sour grapes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
I know a lot of what he says people will agree with, some of it I do (having read the whole interview). However, I think his timing is terrible... could he not wait a bit? The poor woman's just been put in the ground.
The timing might not be the best but I think Michael is speaking for the majority of people when he says this. I hardly think anyone with an ounce of common sense would want their kids to use Jade as a role model.Quote:
Originally Posted by PinkbananaApparently, he did say some time ago that he would like to interview her, as she has an 'interesting back story' which makes you think this might be sour grapes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
I know a lot of what he says people will agree with, some of it I do (having read the whole interview). However, I think his timing is terrible... could he not wait a bit? The poor woman's just been put in the ground.
I think the bitter truth that Jade was naive in the extreme and was easily led and used by those around her for their own selfish ends. She was so gullible that she didnt realise that people were laughing AT her and not WITH her.
HEARTBROKEN Jackiey Budden wrestles with her emotions as she reads the Bible at her daughter’s grave yesterday.
Jade Goody’s grieving mum seemed to draw strength from the holy text as she sat alone on the grass, occasionally reading passages aloud.
She also brought a picnic to the flower-laden site and later ate crisps and a Scotch egg.
An onlooker at the churchyard near Jade’s home in Upshire, Essex, said: “She looked visibly upset but she managed to hold back the tears. She read from the Bible for quite some time and every now and then read parts of it aloud. She looked like she felt content sitting there.”
Jackiey, 51, is planning a trip to Jamaica where she lived years ago and still has pals.
She told Now magazine: “They’ll look after me. It’ll be good to take some time out to recuperate.”
I would not have a picnic by the grave so soon after the funeralside if I wanted to be left alone to grieve. But she is obviously also still happy to speak to the press. :rolleyes:
JACK Tweed is preparing a “memory box” of his time with tragic bride Jade Goody as he faces jail for attacking a cabbie.
He is choosing his favourite wedding pictures, letters and pieces of Jade’s jewellery to help him cope with her death while he is behind bars.
Jack, 21, fears he might not be allowed home from court after he is sentenced on Thursday next week.
The widower has been warned that he will be locked up after being convicted of assaulting Stephen Wilkins in May last year as he was being driven home from a nightclub.
Sentencing was adjourned so that he could attend the funeral of reality TV star Jade last Saturday.
A close family friend said: “Jack is still coming to terms with burying Jade but knows jail is a real possibility.
“He can’t bear the thought of not being able to visit his wife’s grave.
“But he has said the next best thing would be to have a memory box of their life together.”
Jade, 27, who died of cancer on Mother’s Day at her home in Upshire, Essex, left a similar box for sons Bobby, five, and Freddie, four.
Prison rules mean that anything Jack takes in must be scanned and approved.
The pal added: “He is fearing the worst and thinks jail is inevitable.
“But he is clinging to the hope the judge will think he has already gone though enough and will give him a suspended sentence.”
Jack, of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, visited his probation officer yesterday, after missing an appointment on Monday.
He is already under a 7pm-7am curfew after being released early from jail on licence.
Jack was serving 18 months for hitting a teenager with a golf club.
It emerged yesterday that sales of Paulo Nutini’s album These Streets have rocketed since two of the songs — Last Request and Jenny Don’t be Hasty — were played during Jade’s funeral service.
The more I hear about this shower the angrier I get. A graveside picnic in consecrated ground and the press just happened to be there. A visit to a loved ones graveside is supposed to be a way of paying respect to the deceased not another excuse for a publicity shoot. I suppose OK magazine will be accompanying Jackey to Jamaica and sun tabloid will be picking up the bill for the trip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
I am beginning to wonder if they ever gave a damn about Jade or just used her to ride the celeb status she brought...
they better not! hes a thug and deserves to be punished accordingly. if he doesnt want to go to prison then he shouldnt have done it in the first placeQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
i saltue Parky for speaking the truth that everyone else has been too chicken **** to say!
yes it's sad what happened to her, and yes it was noble she raised awarness and provided for her kids, but she was no saint, far from it!