Jade Goody

Jade Goody has revealed that she is considering releasing an album next year.

The Big Brother star has been attending singing lessons in recent weeks to prepare for her role as the Wicked Queen in a production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln.

"I don't have a bad voice but it needs toning up a bit," Goody told the Daily Star. "Who knows, I may release an album when the show is over."

Goody recently admitted that she is looking to Trisha Goddard for inspiration as she fights cervical cancer.

Her battle with the illness is currently being documented in a Living reality series.

She needs to concentrate on getting better - in private.

I'm confused - she is magazines telling us how she is battling cancer, trying to stay strong for her sons and now she is rehearsing for a panto - what is she playing at. :searchme: :searchme:

No No No!!!!

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I'm confused - she is magazines telling us how she is battling cancer, trying to stay strong for her sons and now she is rehearsing for a panto - what is she playing at. :searchme: :searchme:

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PANTO??? :eek: I know, you can understand why some people are doubting her illness. I think like others she should concentrate on getting better in private - let this be one area of her life that she should refrain from being sooo public/making money out of - I think she would find that more people would have respect for her, if she did kept a low profile and just got on with it...in private.

Different people have different ways of coping with things. Jade has got used to being in the lime light since her BB experience, she probably needs the attention to take her mind off the fact she might be dead in a few years. Probably needs the money too seing that her business took a steep nose dive after the Shilpa Shetty affair.

i did think her cancer was very bad though, i would have thought she was better concentrating on that and her family for now.

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i did think her cancer was very bad though, i would have thought she was better concentrating on that and her family for now.

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Exactly, why have the cameras there all the time, and be busy going on different tv programs, if time could be precious. Her energy should be going into recovering and spending time with her boys and family...IMO

Oh dear, please NOO!
If she's ill... the show and a music career would definately be the last thing on her mind right now.

Any sympathy for Jade Goody and her cancer would soon disappear if she tried cashing in on a doomed singing career. What is it with these Z listers.:angry:

Has anybody ever heard her sing? Would she be able to have a decent go at this career? :searchme:

DEVASTATED Jade Goody sobbed “I don’t want to die” as doctors gently told her that her cancer had spread.
The Big Brother star had longed for good news after numerous bouts of chemotherapy which cruelly saw her hair fall out.

But medics gathered round her hospital bed yesterday morning to explain that tumours had been found in her liver, bowel and groin.

They scrapped their previous estimate that she had a 40 per cent chance of survival — and began treating the mum of two to prolong her life as long as possible rather than pursue a cure.

Jade, 27, told The Sun last night: “I am devastated. I am frightened and I am angry. I don’t want to die because I have so much to live for.

“The reality is I have gone from a 40 per cent chance of a cure to seeing how long I can stay alive.

“The whole thing is absolutely terrifying. To try and remain positive, I am hoping a new type of treatment will suppress and control the cancer, which is very aggressive. I am in a nightmare.”

Jade, first diagnosed with cervical cancer last August, was admitted to London’s Royal Marsden Hospital in agonising pain last Friday.

She had discharged herself against medical advice to join sons Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie at their home in Upshire, Essex.

But she had to return to hospital after collapsing.

She spent yesterday in tears after doctors delivered the shattering verdict. She has already begun to prepare a will and has told close family to expect the worst.

Boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21, was said to be “numb” over the news and Jade’s 50-year-old mum Jackiey “in pieces” at her bedside last night.

Jade added: “It’s awful. The doctors have confirmed the worst. The chemo hasn’t been as effective as I hoped.

“They are now trying to work out the best way to attack these new tumours and still have an effect on the original cancer in the cervix.

“All I can do is hope a different combination of drugs and all the expert care will mean the cancer can be kept at bay. That’s what I hope and pray will happen.”

Emergency meetings were held last night to develop a new action plan to minimise Jade’s suffering and try to shrink the aggressive tumours.

Medics at the Royal Marsden have not given her a percentage survival rating.

They said only that they are now treating her to prolong her life so she can spend as much time as possible with her boys. A friend of the family said last night: “It’s what we’d all been dreading.

“You think with Jade that she’ll always bounce back. You think she’s a fighter and that she’s going to beat this.

“But she can’t seem to win this fight — the cancer is too advanced and the doctors don’t hold out much hope.

“It’s so unfair. She’s a mum of two young kids and they need her. Everyone is in total shock and all that’s left to do is pray.”

Jade has the option to refuse further treatment, but is expected to battle on. Her sons are staying with their dad, TV host Jeff Brazier. Her spokesman Max Clifford said last night: “It is absolutely heartbreaking. She is only a young woman and she is desperately trying to put on a brave face and be positive for her children.

“She is desperately trying to keep herself busy because that is what she wants to do.

“The doctors have got to get the pain under control and see what they can do to give her the best chance.

“It could be a combination of chemo, radiotherapy and new drugs. Whatever gives her the best chance of suppressing and controlling the cancer and prolonging her life.

“She’s a lovely girl and this has been devastating news. She has had the most severe form of treatment in the last couple of months and come up smiling.

“She was obviously hoping for good news and what she’s got is devastating news.

“That means there’s going to be a lot more in front of her. She’s a real fighter, but it’s just horrendous.”

Jade first had pre-cancerous cells removed at 16 and has since suffered a series of collapses and bouts of blood loss.

Three years ago she was admitted to The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, with stomach cramps. But her cancer was not diagnosed until last year. Mr Clifford said this made yesterday’s diagnosis even harder to take. He said: “She is angry because she first went into hospital three years ago and a diagnosis could have been made then.

Instead — three years later — doctors found a tumour the size of a large tomato.”

Jade was first told of her cervical cancer in the diary room of the Indian version of Big Brother and flew home for emergency treatment.

She has since been criticised for allowing her treatment to be filmed — and for a series of interviews about her illness.

But she said: “People will say I’m doing this for money — and they’re right, I am. But not to buy flash cars or big houses. It’s for my sons’ future if I’m not here.

“I don’t want my kids to have the same miserable, drug-blighted, poverty-stricken childhood I did.

“If cancer has taught me anything it’s that big houses aren’t important, being rich isn’t important. It’s my sons who are important — it’s being alive that’s important.”

Jade is expected to be told of her treatment options today.

Poor woman, I don't like and never have, but I would not wish this illness on anyone :(

Poor Jade and her kids.. she is so young.. I like Jade, she seemed the most real person on BB... I wish her all the best

i think this final news has finally made it real for her, its no age.

Its so sad

I'm no fan of hers, I had a tear in my eye reading that.

Those two boys shouldn't have to go through losing a parent at such a young age.

I hope doctors can prolong her life as long as possible.

Again - I am sorry she has cancer, and I am sorry she is going to die - but surely it would be best for her and her family to do it in private?

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Again - I am sorry she has cancer, and I am sorry she is going to die - but surely it would be best for her and her family to do it in private?

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Probably but then again I think its important that some celebs tell their story as it reinforces how horrible cancer is and yeah we already know this but I think its important that every now and then we hear about it in hope that it becomes more urgent in findings ways to reduce risks and find cures



I feel really sad about this

This is so sad :( I hope she can fight this.

i think she is an absolute disgrace she said she is making money out of it for her children well im sorry jade but what a sick way of making money!

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I'm no fan of hers, I had a tear in my eye reading that.

Those two boys shouldn't have to go through losing a parent at such a young age.

I hope doctors can prolong her life as long as possible.

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they said she will be dead within 5 years

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i think she is an absolute disgrace she said she is making money out of it for her children well im sorry jade but what a sick way of making money!

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I agree it can appear to be a sick way to make money

But I think its more a sad way that she feels and thinks this is the only way she can make money to ensure that her sons will be left with some money so she can try and ensure their safety after shes gone

When Jade was first diagnosed with Cancer my first opinion was that I hoped she would stay out of the public eye and give herself time to get better, but hearing that the cancer has spread and her decision to make money for her kids future my heart goes out to her.

Unlike many celebs who have suffered rom Cancer over the last few years they have stayed out of the public eye until they were well enough to resume their careers. Jade does not have that luxury her time is running out and she has no career. Before Big Brother came along she was a dental assistant now all she knows is reality TV. It may not be ideal but as she says she does not want her kids growing up like she did. It's sad that she is know for making a fool of herself on TV sitting naked while playing a game of strip poker on national telly, were are those so-called mates now. Jade was gulible when she appeared on BB the first-time that's why she is looked on as some villiage idiot.

I hope Jade does beat the Cancer and get's her life back on track, she doesn't deserve to die so young and those poor boys need their Mum.

Jade Goody may have a case for negligence against the NHS for missing her cervical cancer, it has been alleged.

A lawyer told The Sun that if previous biopsies taken from the reality TV star showed the same cancer "fingerprint" as her current condition, she could potentially win a case for loss of earnings.

Sarah Harman said: "If you are losing blood and collapsing, your cancer is established.

"It's strange it wasn't diagnosed. Jade's symptoms should have been investigated."

Harman added that she respected the fact that Goody does not want to sue the NHS but said that she also has two children to think about.

The Big Brother star spoke today about the "glimmer of hope" offered by a new anti-cancer drug.

There are lots of reasons why a person would collapse and lose blood. Doesn't automatically point to cancer.

I should think Jade has more important things on her mind than suing the NHS, like spending quality time with her children.

TRAGIC Jade Goody was recovering last night after a successful operation to remove a life-threatening tumour.

The cancer-stricken star was well enough to chat to friends and family after two hours of emergency surgery to remove a golf-ball sized blockage from her bowel.

Before the op at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital mum-of-two Jade, 27, insisted that she wanted to carry on with a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about her cancer—despite being told it had spread and she might not survive.

I have to do this for my kids“I have to do this for my kids,” she told bosses at Living TV who had considered stopping filming because of her worsening prognosis.

Jade’s plea has plunged executives at the satellite channel into a moral dilemma over filming what may be her final months. “She’s lived on reality television and she may die on reality television,” one told the News of the World.

But the channel’s chief Claudia Rosencrantz—a well-regarded former ITV boss who launched the careers of Ant and Dec—has supported Jade’s desperate desire to continue with the documentary series. Rosencrantz told a pal: “I’ve cried so much for Jade and have been very emotional for her. But she needs this money so much for her two sons.

“She also she needs the opportunity to show the world how to avoid cancer. That’s also important to her.”

Insiders at the channel have revealed they have begun daily meetings to discuss filming Jade’s rapidly deteriorating condition.


Her contract with Living ends next month with one filmed programme still to be shown. So far there have been no discussions on a renewal. But it is now expected she will sign up for more shows.

Meanwhile Jade—mum to five-year-old Bobby and four-year-old Freddie —is determined to stay positive about her future and has been given a glimmer of hope by doctors.

They have started her on cancer “wonderdrug” Topotecan which shrinks tumours that have not responded to chemotherapy. And Jade, who posed exclusively for the News of the World last month, is said to be happy and upbeat following Friday’s surgery. A medical source added: “The team are pleased with the way things went.”

Friends say all her thoughts are now focused on not despairing despite the disease spreading to her liver, bowel and groin—and she refuses to talk about death. She is telling everyone: “I want to stay alive for my boys.”

Yesterday Jade’s PR Max Clifford said the star found filming her documentary helpful —and stressed it would continue. He said: “She wants to be busy, so there’s something to keep her occupied in-between the trauma and the pain.

“She also wants to warn other people. In terms of Living TV, it’s very much, ‘Do you want us to stop, Jade? Do you want us to leave you?’. Jade’s attitude is, ‘When I’m up to it, you do the filming, that’s what I want to do’.” A source at Living TV—where Jade has worked regularly since she found fame on 2002 with Big Brother —told us: “Everyone here has got very close to Jade through filming the show. We are all praying for a miracle.

“The greatest show we could ever film would be one about Jade’s full recovery, but we have to be realistic. There is no getting around the fact that that situation is grim.”

Other broadcasters have questioned Living’s motives for continuing the filming—noting it has been one of their only successful programme franchises in the last year.

One rival channel boss said: “Jade has become synonymous with Living and she puts bums on seats. When it comes down to it that’s what matters to them, so of course they’re going to do this until the end.”

A spokesman for Living said last night: “Jade’s return to good health is our number one concern.

“We have been working in close consultation with her and we will review the continuation of the series with her when the next programme is broadcast on February 19.”

From NOTW

I feel really sorry for :( It just seems to be more bad news after bad news

JADE Goody’s boyfriend and mum bickered around her bedside, it was revealed today.

The 27-year-old cancer-sufferer had to ‘diffuse’ the situation between mum Jackiey Budden and boyfriend Jack Tweed after having emergency surgery to remove a tumour on her bowel at the weekend.

Agent Max Clifford said that the former Big Brother star, whose cancer has now spread to her bowel, liver and groin, acted as a peacemaker as tempers flared in the hospital.

Max said: "Her Mum and Jack had an argument around her bedside and Jade tried to diffuse the situation.

“It's fair to say that Jackiey is a volatile lady and if she had a problem with Jack, that that's been diffused now."

But Jade’s friend and producer Kate Jackson, who was speaking with Max on This Morning suggested that the spat came after many restless hours worrying about Jade in hospital.

Kate said: “I think emotions were running high around the bedside."

Max revealed that mum-of-two Jade is finding it hard to speak to her children -who she won't be able to see for two weeks - about the illness, but has been talking to experts about the best way to approach the subject.

Jade’s sons Bobby Jack, 5, and Freddie, 4, are staying with their dad Jeff Brazier but have also been cared for by mum Jackiey.

Max: “I think that Jade will obviously adapt as she goes on and she's very close to the boys and is a great mum. She's spoken to Kate and lots of professionals about going about it but she’ll find her own way."

Kate added: “When I spoke to her yesterday she was very sedated and out of it.

“The conversations we've had have been at her bedside when she's been quite ill. I'm sure once she comes around properly from the operation, she'll find a way of talking to the boys."

You would have thought that they stop arguing by her bedside, this is the last thing Jade needs at the moment :angry:

Jade Goody has said that her recent emergency operation to help fight her cancer was a success.

The Big Brother star said that she had tubes going in to her nose and neck to provide pain relief during the bowel surgery.

Goody wrote in her new! diary: "The operation lasted nearly two hours and thankfully it was a success.

"I'm just relieved that I won't need a colostomy bag. It's one thing losing my hair, but I think a poo bag would have been too much."

At the weekend, Goody's publicist Max Clifford confirmed that the reality TV star would continue to give press and television interviews despite the spread of her cancer.

I am glad for her

STRICKEN Jade Goody is desperate to return home so she can spend her remaining time with her two young sons.
Complications from her cancer have kept the Big Brother star in hospital, where saddened doctors this week told her they are now powerless to stop the disease spreading.

But medics are hopeful the 27-year-old could yet return to her family’s Essex home and receive treatment from a community Macmillan nurse.

That would allow her to be with her beloved boys Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie — who visited her yesterday.

Tragic Jade is also making plans to wed. She and boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21, will tie the knot “in the next few weeks”, her spokesman Max Clifford said last night.

Yesterday tears flowed as Jade’s sons kissed and hugged her after attending a school play. Their mum had pleaded with medics: “I want my boys with me.”

The tragic truth about Jade’s condition emerged on Tuesday when she asked why no more chemotherapy was planned for her next week.

Staff at Chelsea’s Royal Marsden Hospital warned her the truth would be hard to take, but she begged to be told.

A member of the medical team she trusted then gently explained that chemo was now unable to stop her cancer spreading.

Instead, doctors’ concern now is to make her comfortable and ease the pain in the months — or even weeks — before she passes away.

Jade, cruelly robbed of her hair by gruelling sessions of chemotherapy, has drawn up a will from her hospital bed leaving her estate to her sons.

She is being comforted in a private room by mum Jackiey Budden, 50, and boyfriend Jack.

But he has to leave at 3pm daily to get home and comply with the conditions of his prison electronic-tag curfew.

A friend said: “Jade is still fighting, but she knows in her heart there’s no chance of getting out of this situation. All doctors can do is try and make her comfortable.

“It is going to be weeks now. Because she is still a young woman, the cancer cells are growing rapidly.

“A solicitor came into hospital this week.

“Jade has drawn up a will leaving her money in a trust fund for the boys.”

Jade, diagnosed with cervical cancer last August, has continued with media interviews despite her illness to make as much money as possible to leave behind for Bobby and Freddie.

Mr Clifford said: “Selling the rights to her wedding would be a sure fire way of earning a big amount of money.”

Care arrangements for her sons have been drawn up between Jackiey, Jack and the boys’ TV presenter father Jeff Brazier.

The source added: “Jade is very frightened of dying in hospital and wants to spend what time she has left at home with her boys and family close to her.”

Staff decided not to risk any more chemotherapy on Jade’s shattered body and are instead concentrating on palliative care.

They broke the news on Tuesday that earlier hopes of recovery had been dashed by the spread of the disease into her groin, liver and bowel.

Oncologists believe it is highly likely it has also spread to her brain and bones.

The Sun revealed earlier this month that Jade’s cancer had spread.

She sobbed, “I don’t want to die” as doctors told her the devastating news.

She is now getting married to Jack in a £1m magazine deal. Can't blame them, the kids will need looking after and at least there should not be any financial problems.

UNTIL now, Jade Goody never believed she’d have to look death in the face.


She believed that if you really want to live, if you pray hard enough for it, if you throw every fibre of your being into making it happen— then you will.

But that would be in a world where everything was right and fair and where miracles really DO happen.

Jade prayed long and hard for her miracle—but it never came. The cancer she has fought so valiantly has finally beaten her.

It took just a moment for doctors to snuff out the only glimmer of hope that had been lighting up the long dark days since her operation last week.

On Friday afternoon they gathered around her bed and told her there was nothing more they could do. The battle was over and they were sending her home to die.

“I couldn’t breathe when they told me,” says Jade. “I just screamed and cried and said, ‘Can’t anyone do anything to help me!’ Because a few weeks ago when they first told me the chemo hadn’t worked they said it didn’t have to be the end.

“They said there were lots of other medicines out there and there were other things they could do.

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“And I believed them. And there they were telling me it was the end. I didn’t want to believe it. I’m not blaming them. I know they’ve done everything they can to help me and I’m grateful. But I really thought I might be OK.

“But,” she says quietly, “I suppose there was this little part of me that didn’t. Since my bowel operation last week the pain has been getting worse and worse and I still haven’t been to the loo and I knew that was a bad sign. But I was still praying for a miracle.”

Jade says she was by herself when doctors delivered the news that brought her world crashing down around her:



“I rang Jack immediately and he came running in. He was crying and so very upset. He just kept saying, ‘All that chemo, all that pain and it was all for nothing’. He refused to accept it at first and he and the rest of the family started talking about getting me on a plane to America.

“They kept telling me they can do amazing things over there and that maybe there is some miracle cure that we don’t know about.

“But as I listened to them I just kept thinking, ‘It’s too late for me. My time has run out.’ All I want to do now is spend whatever time I have left with Jack and the kids.

“You know, when Jack came out of prison he had no idea how sick I was. And I know this is hard for him because he expected to get me back. He expected the chemo to work and that we’d have a life together as a family.

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“But I swear we WILL be a family before I die—just not for as long as I’d have hoped.

“I love Jack with all my heart and I want to be his wife more than anything in the world. And I will be.

“He’s devastated but he’s really trying to hold it together for me. But as soon as he found out I was going to die he just said, ‘Right then we’re getting married. You’re a special woman, I love you and I would be honoured to call you my wife. And I don’t care if it’s just for a few weeks’.” Jade knows that at 27 she’s too young to die. And, yes, she wants to rant and rail and scream: “I want to ask God why he couldn’t have given me more time with my boys.

“Just a bit—just enough to hear them laugh a few more times, to see that they’re happy, to write them long letters so I can tell them who I was and how much I loved them and remind them about all the things we did together.

“Because they might forget me. And I can’t bear the thought of that.

“I’ve decided I’m going to make them a Memory Box and put in lots of things that will remind them of me and what we did together. And maybe when they’re older it will help them remember.”

A few weeks ago Jade said something that I can’t get out of my head. She said: “I keep asking myself what I did that was so bad that it had to end like this.”





And as I listened to her I realised that’s how she must see this. A deprived childhood with parents too stupid, too selfish and too drug- addicted to make a decent life for their little girl. So, the first chance she got she made one for herself. It’s not the one every parent would have wanted for their daughter.

But for Jade fame and money helped her escape shackles of a miserable childhood, a childhood where she looked after everyone but no-one looked after her.

But the biggest prize in her glitzy new life wasn’t the fame or the money—it was her beloved boys, Freddie, four, and Bobby, five. Jade once told me she believed she’d been given the chance to make good what had happened in HER childhood through her boys.

She was determined that they would have a totally different life to the one she’d had.

They would have a beautiful home, they would have money—but best of all they would have an education, something the street-savvy Jade had always wanted for herself. And the boys truly are a credit to her. They’re sweet, well adjusted, well behaved children and Jade’s biggest joy is that she’s able to pay for them to go to a private school

“When I first knew I had cancer I worked out a strategy,” she said. “I thought if I earn enough money while I’m sick there will be enough for them to go to private school until they are 18.

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“I know people think I’m betraying my roots by sending them to a private school but I want them to have the very best chance in life they can have. And that’s what my money is for. What’s the point of everything I have if I can’t do that for them?”

Jade Goody is an enigma. Even now, when she knows she has less than eight weeks to live, there is resoluteness about her, a strength that is hard to fathom.

When she was first diagnosed and we talked I kept thinking she didn’t really understand what was happening to her. I thought she didn’t understand that she might die.

And, God forgive me, I put it down to the fact she might not be very bright and that she hadn’t fully grasped the seriousness of her condition.

But now I see she always understood. She always knew.

She just put the cancer-stricken Jade away in a box, the one she thought might die, and she kept bringing out the Bright, Bubbly, Indefatigable Jade, the one people expected to see—the one no-one believed for a second would die. And no-one really did. Until now . . .

But now I see it helped her cope. It’s still helping her cope as she prepares for the big white wedding she always dreamed of.

She won’t talk about funeral arrangements. Instead she wants to talk about wedding planners, make-up artists, dresses and wedding cakes.

And just hours after she’d been told she was going to die a friend overheard her and Jack laughing uproariously in her room.

When he asked what was going on Jade was shouting: “Don’t tell him, don’t tell him!”

What had happened was that Jack was trying to show Jade how to break wind so that her swollen stomach might feel just a little more comfortable.

And last night—just a day after her terrible news—Jade was busily getting ready for a Valentine’s Day party with her friends.

It was being held in a little ante- room next to her bedroom and even though Jack can’t stay with her on what will be her last ever Valentine’s Day—because of the conditions of his prison electronic-tag curfew—she was determined to make the best of it and have a party.

All her friends and their partners readily agreed to give up their own Valentine’s Day celebrations to drink champagne with Jade.

“As Jack’s not here my best friend Jen is going to be my date,” says Jade. “But that’s OK. I’ll have my day with Jack and it WILL be the best day of my life.”


WEDDING DAY SHE LONGS FOR

JUST hours after being told she was going to die, Jade Goody’s drug-fuddled mind shuddered into sharp focus.


The fatigue and the grim news that her life now had a time limit were dispensed with. I’d talked to her earlier in the day and she could barely stay awake. But now her survival instincts had kicked in. There was no time to sleep. She had a wedding to plan and very little time to do it.

So at 11pm on Friday she started ringing friends and family—bombarding them with demands and giving them very precise lists of what she wants them to do.

She wanted names of good make-up artists and she wanted to know about wedding cakes. What vicar could marry her in such a short time? And was there a caterer who could pull a wedding like this together in a week? Because Jade knows that’s all the time she has to plan what will be one of the happiest—and probably one of the saddest—days of her life. And instead of wasting time on how she is going to die, this incredible woman decided instead to throw every last ounce of her energy into how she was going to live.

The wedding will be in the next week —even though she hasn’t yet picked a church or a vicar. And she’s determined it will be wonderful.

“For a few hours she was like a whirling dervish,” a friend said last night. “She paid a heavy price for it the next day because she was in excruciating pain. But for the few hours she was able to function she went at those wedding arrangements like a woman possessed.

“It was hard to believe she’d just been told she was going to die. I don’t know where that energy came from but I guess it’s because she knows time is now short and God bless her, she’s making the most of every minute. She decided if she didn’t have time to sleep then the rest of us weren’t going to either. And that’s absolutely fine. Everyone who loves her knows how important this day will be to her.”

Jade has decided she wants a Bentley to drive her to the church and a helicopter to take her to the reception. “It’s something she’s always wanted,” says her friend. “And at this moment what Jade wants, Jade is going to get.”

And it isn’t just a wedding Jade has to plan. Lawyers will be arriving at her home in Essex next week to put the finishing touches to her will which is expected to say that all Jade’s money and her three properties will go to her kids.

“She wants the boys’ education sorted out,” said the friend. She wants where they’re going to live sorted out and she wants to make sure there’s enough money so they will always be secure.

“It’s heartbreaking but it has to be done. And Jade knows it.”

:( thats so sad

Does this not break your heart. I know Jade can be a pain in the backside and I myself is gulity of slagging her off when she was in BB, but God love her no young woman should have to suffer what she is suffering now. How do you plan your own funeral, how do you tell your beautiful children that you're not going to be there to watch them grow up.

The article did actually make me cry :(

Jade Goody has refused to rule out allowing her death to be filmed for her reality TV show.
The former Big Brother contestant has been told that her cancer is terminal and she could have just eight weeks left to live.
A newspaper report last weekend claimed that the star "may die on reality television" after she indicated that she was likely to renew her deal with Living TV.
Speaking to the News Of The World, Goody confirmed: "I've lived my whole adult life talking about my life. The only difference is that I'm talking about my death now. It's OK.
"I've lived in front of the cameras. And maybe I'll die in front of them. And I know some people don't like what I'm doing but at this point I really don't care what other people think. Now, it's about what I want."
The 27-year-old added that she has continued to appear in the press throughout her illness because she wants to secure the future of her two sons, Bobby, five, and Freddie, four.
"When I first knew I had cancer I worked out a strategy," she explained. "I thought if I earn enough money while I'm sick there will be enough for them to go to private school until they are 18.
"I know people think I'm betraying my roots by sending them to a private school but I want them to have the very best chance in life they can have. And that's what my money is for. What's the point of everything I have if I can't do that for them?"
Goody was diagnosed with cervical cancer as she appeared on the Indian version of Big Brother in August last year. She recently announced that the illness had spread to her liver, bowel and groin.

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Originally Posted by Abbie

The article did actually make me cry :(

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It made me cry too.

I hope she makes it to her wedding day. It's so unfair that a woman of her age is dying and leaving two young children behind.

I think she deserves more than £1m for her wedding. Her children should have the best education and everything they need financially until they are 21. Private education doesn't come cheap for two children for another 13 years, plus university.

Why is Jade Goody's cancer story in the music forum :confused:

Because the thread started out about her possible music career, then her panto performance, which she had to cancel due to needing more treatment for her cancer. Not much point having two threads saying much the same.

ive never really liked jade but i feel so sorry for her and for her kids and family, no one should have to die that young

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Originally Posted by Chloe O'brien

“Because they might forget me. And I can’t bear the thought of that.

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this sentence made me cry, its just so awful :(

poor Jade and her family :(