When your body is riddled with cancer who gives a shit about dignity?
The british tabloids are apparently paying her for all of these interviews. So, she is profiting handsomely from her fatal disease. The figure I heard bandied around was £3 million since her diagnosis last year. Even if it's exaggerated and she is only getting a tenth of that, I think that it is tacky to exploit herself in this manner.
How is going to the beach and getting into the cold ocean water in January good for someone who is undergoing chemo?
True, but with respect, she didn't give a toss about her dignity when she wasn't ill either. As I said above, I wish her well, but Jade Goody is part of an appalling trend of vacuous non-celebrities who earn money by selling every aspect of their lives to newspapers and magazines, and it fuels Britain's insatiable hunger to obsess about other peoples' lives; other people who are foisted on us, willingly. I don't mind reading about Barack Obama, Michael Phelps, the road-warden who got an OBE for services to the community, but Jade, Jordan, Kerry? I'm not interested in people who say nothing to me about my life and who sit down to figure out their next story to sell.
Anyway, I hope she gets better. Illness is nasty.
Peter
True, but with respect, she didn't give a toss about her dignity when she wasn't ill either. As I said above, I wish her well, but Jade Goody is part of an appalling trend of vacuous non-celebrities who earn money by selling every aspect of their lives to newspapers and magazines, and it fuels Britain's insatiable hunger to obsess about other peoples' lives; other people who are foisted on us, willingly. I don't mind reading about Barack Obama, Michael Phelps, the road-warden who got an OBE for services to the community, but Jade, Jordan, Kerry? I'm not interested in people who say nothing to me about my life and who sit down to figure out their next story to sell.
Anyway, I hope she gets better. Illness is nasty.
Peter
I don't see how she's "exploiting" her illness. It's not like she chose to have cancer.
Not on the NHS
you are totally right here, she has been horribly slagged off in the UK for doing things like interviews so on. She is a reality tv "star" here cassius, so I suppose this is what she knows. 27 years old a young mother of 2 I think its time for people to back off and just let her do what she need to do.
Not on the NHS
Why is she playing this out in the media? Has she no dignity?
For comparison's sake, when Kylie was diagnosed she totally disappeared off the radar (media-wise), she was not giving interviews to every tabloid going, her publicist was not issuing press releases giving graphic details about her illness, and there were VERY few photographs taken of her during her illness and recovery. Jade is on the cover of a Sunday tabloid every week with another "exclusive" interview, and photographs too. A few weeks ago there were photographs printed of her in a swimsuit while on holiday playing in the ocean with her kids in Spain all the while she is supposed to be undergoing chemo?
So yeah, dignity. It's important, no?
I don't understand why it offends people that she's a reality star. It's her life to make public.