Jade Goody

[di marco]

Shilpa Shetty has called on the public to pray for terminally ill Jade Goody.

The pair have reconciled after Goody was accused of bullying the Bollywood actress on the 2007 series of Celebrity Big Brother.

Shetty told ITV News that she was even asked to Goody's wedding to Jack Tweed on Sunday, although she is unable to attend as she will be filming in Bombay.

She said: "I buried the hatchet a very long time ago, not because I'd heard about her being diagnosed with cancer. I'd repeatedly told people my feelings and I really didn't want to have any ill feelings against her.

"It's really sad to know that her health is deteriorating and I really want people to forget the past and I really want them to pray and send her good wishes because that's something that will give her energy.

"I really want all the positive things to be affecting her at this point."

Goody, 27, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in August while appearing on the Indian version of Big Brother, which was hosted by Shetty. She has since been told that the cancer has spread and is now terminal.

"If I was in London I would definitely have been there to show her my solidarity," Shetty added.

[di marco]

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.

i do sort of agree with what youre saying. although i feel sorry for jade and her family, i dont feel any more or any less sorry for her than i do for everyone else who is dying of cancer. as ive never really liked her i couldnt really care less about her wedding, if she wasnt dying i wouldnt care about her wedding so that hasnt changed just cos shes got cancer. however i can see why shes doing it and why its all over every paper etc

[Abigail]

Jade is getting as much coverage in the nation newspapers as the lady round the corner from me at home did when she had terminal cancer. She had two young children, 6 and 8. Every week she was in the local paper fundraising or giving updates on her treatment. I see this no different.

Everybody copes differently with terminal illnesses. Some shout and scream and become depressed. Some decide to make the most of what they have left and do what the want, regardless of what other people think.

I've seen first hand what a parent with terminal cancer or other serious illness does to children. It's not nice to watch children suffer and know that the only thing that could possibly make things ok is something you can't give them.

Jade doing all these photo shoots with her children is just another way of her helping to keep her children's memory of a parent alive. When they grow up they may not wish to see their mum with no hair and looking ill, but at least they have something to keep forever, her last few photos. The way she looked before her death.

If Jade wants to sell her wedding pictures and secure her children's future, let her do so. Until you're in that situation, you're in no position to judge her. If you don't like what she's doing, don't read the articles.

[CrazyLea]

Nah I agree with Abba fan. Yes she is dying of cancer. Like abba fan said... so are millions of people in the world... I have many relatives/family friends who have dies of cancer one who was 24.. had kids 3 and 6.. but she was too ill to do any fundraising or anything.. does that make her any less of a sufferer?... why should Jade Goody get millions from it.. I'm sure that millions that have been made from her articles etc.. could have gone to cancer research or something..

[Abigail]

What's more important, giving all her money away to charity and letting her children have the upbringing she did or letting her children have the upbringing she would give them if she wasn't terminally ill?

At the end of the day, her children come before anything else.

[CrazyLea]

Well I am drunk and don't care what I say at this point.

But my cousins (ones I was talking about, 3 and 6 when my cousin died of cancer).. well they've done pretty well.. without loads of money.

Money is overated imo.

[Abigail]

But if you came from a really deprived background, had a junkie for a mother and had the childhood no child should ever have, wouldn't you want to make the best provisions you could for your children?

You may think money is overrated but to a person who had nothing growing up, to give their children a good education and a good start in life, money is everything.

[Kim]

Charity begins at home as they say, and good on Jade for trying to give her children something that she never had. This is the only way she can now give her children the upbringing that she wants them to have.

[CrazyLea]

If it wasn't for Jade's cancer. In a few years she would have been nothing. And this story would be just for the local papers.

I'm sorry I may sound selfish or something..

But my cousin has nothing growing up.. no luxuries.. if i'm honest... before she was diagnosed the kids dad was a dealer... the kids have not much money now.. etc... but they are happy.. money can't buy you everything. It can buy you some things.. but that's not all that matters in the world - to me and my family. Would Michaela (my cousin) have been splashed all over the papers. NO. Because she wasn't in Big Brother like Jade or famous like Jade... We are not rich or anything... we don't have everything.. much like Jade's prbably did before she was famous... would they have been less off that what they are now because of her cancer... my feeling is no... most of us have jobs.. those with kids in particular... are they less off? Would they be less of if one parent died... no I doubt it..

So I don't care what anyone says... this is my opinion and my opinon only. Those kids don't need half the money they are going to be given when they're older.

And for those who may be thinking I'm hearless.. I am not, and I am very sorry Jade's got cancer and is dying.. I just don't agree with how she's going about it.

[Perdita]

Jade Goody's fiance Jack Tweed has had his curfew conditions changed to allow him spend his wedding night with her, says the Ministry of Justice.

It follows reports reality TV star Goody, who has terminal cancer, may have to spend her wedding night alone because of his bail conditions.

Tweed is on curfew after being convicted of assault last year.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw said he had great sympathy for Goody who was facing her illness with courage.

The 27-year-old was diagnosed with cervical cancer while appearing on the Indian version of Big Brother in 2008. After undergoing chemotherapy and several surgical procedures, she was told in January that the disease had spread to her bowel, liver and groin.

She plans to marry Tweed, who was released early from an 18-month prison sentence last month, at a country house hotel in Hertfordshire.

The Daily Mirror reported he had had a plea to waive his bail conditions after the ceremony rejected.

But he will now be allowed to stay at the reception following his marriage to Goody until 3pm on the day after the wedding.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said Justice Secretary Jack Straw had "enormous sympathy" for Goody and her family, adding: "She has shown extraordinary courage and our thoughts are with her."

It is not unusual for bail conditions to be varied on compassionate grounds, to allow people to attend weddings or funerals, the ministry says.

He is now no longer on the curfew and will not have to leave Jade now.