Jade Goody

[Perdita]

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.

[JustJodi]

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 ?

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

[Chloe O'brien]

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.

[alan45]

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.

[Xx-Vicky-xX]

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.

1. 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
2. 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
3. but then the other side of that is that only the boys and maybe her mum should get the money from this
4. 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?
5. 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
6. 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
7. but then again i think the throwing flowers thing meant something to fans
8. 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

[di marco]

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

[alan45]

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.

[tammyy2j]

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.

[Perdita]

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.

[Joanne]

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.

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.