Jade Goody- sad or not?

In 2002 Jade Goody was a figure of public hatred. Whilst in the Big Brother House, she supposedly engaged in sexual activities under a duvet and threatened to "deck" fellow housemates. This was not taken well by the viewers of the iconic show, and she left the house to the public holding placards declaring "kill the pig" and "miss piggy".

In January 2007 Jade again entered the house in the celebrity version of Big Brother, and once again became a hate figure after herself, Jo O'Meara and Danielle Lloyd exchanged racist remarks about Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, referring to her as "Shilpa Poppadom" and declaring that she should "Fuck off home".

Although she made numerous attempts to reconcile the reputation she had ruined for herself, with her best selling perfume line, a DVD, an autobiography, a cookbook and a trip to India, it is only since she has been diagnosed with terminal Cervical Cancer that she has been accepted into society by the masses.

I find it hard to believe that someone who was so hated and who made so many mistakes during her life is only being accepted when told she is dying. There is so much publicity being aimed at her now, even talks of her being filmed whilst she is dying. It shows how unforgiving and shallow the British public really are.

She wants to marry her on-off lover Jack Tweed this Sunday before she dies, and was given a £3,500 wedding dress from Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed as a gift.

In my opinion, its all very sad, but it has been made into a media circus. In last weeks news Bishop Jonathan Blake made headlines for photographing his child on top of their house, for a project in which the children have to be snapped reading in perculiar places. He visited Jade this week. The Bishop arrived in an emergency style vehicle, with the words "On Call Bishop" and "Trauma 999" splashed across the back. It almost seems as though he was making a mockery of the church and made the whole thing more ludicrous.

I appreciate that Jade has been in the media spotlight since 2o02 age 21, but when it gets to the extreme that they want to video her in her dying days, days which she should be comforting her sons, providing reassurance and spending it with the man she loves, it all becomes very hard to feel truley sympathetic toward her when nothing about it seems real.

Jade has come from a turbulent background, with her Dad dying of a heroine overdose and her mum allowing her to roll spliffs since she was four years old, so it is no wonder some of the things she did throughout her life were not always right. But I think, now that she has gained the publics sympathy and affection, she should leave peacefully and gracefully, not in the middle of a media circus, leaving her poor children fond memories of their mother.