Jade goody was NOT popular with the public
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Lets dispel this ridiculous myth that Jade Goody was popular and had "captured the hearts of the nation", as many papers have put it.
This woman came FOURTH in Big Brother. Then 2 years later at the height of her fame she came FOURTH in Back to Reality. Then in 2007 she was voted off CBB with 87% of the vote.
People are talking about comparisons with Diana. In Back To Reality, Jade was beaten in the public vote by James "love rat" Hewitt. The man who broke Dianas heart was more popular than Jade!
Lets face it, Jades fans are in a very small minority.
This woman came FOURTH in Big Brother. Then 2 years later at the height of her fame she came FOURTH in Back to Reality. Then in 2007 she was voted off CBB with 87% of the vote.
People are talking about comparisons with Diana. In Back To Reality, Jade was beaten in the public vote by James "love rat" Hewitt. The man who broke Dianas heart was more popular than Jade!
Lets face it, Jades fans are in a very small minority.
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Im not claiming she didnt have fans. She did. But she was nowhere near as popular as people make out.
In Back To Reality she was beaten by Craig, James Hewitt and Maureen from driving school.
I dont think you can necessarily call people who buy magazines "fans". Some people buy them to read about people out of morbid fascination.
What next ? a new thread saying that Jade Goody is the most hated person with 9 letters in their name to have died in the last week ?
'Can't you just let it go? The woman is dead. '
in another thread. Rather hypocritical of you, don't you think?
What show did she win?
One thing she never won was the respect of people with an IQ above the national average.
Hold on didnt she win the marathon? Oops I remember now....:D
How many more new threads are going to be made about Jade?
However, the girl is dead so WHO CARES? what can she or us possibly do about her popularity of lack of it now?
Hooraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay:D
LOL Yep:D
But I would like to think that a young person losing her life at the age of only 27 is tragic, and I think that she was incredibly brave.
Facing death she must have had truly dark thoughts, but imo she faced them with courage. Being in the public spotlight helped her I think to deal with her impending death because it distracted her.
I have expressed sorrow at Wendy Richard's passing. I feel for anybody who has lost their lives when their time wasn't meant to be up.
All the money in the world that has been raised (or whatever you want to call it!) for her children can't compensate for their mum not being there.
At the end of the day, she's dead. She tried in her final months to get as much money out of being Jade as possible and well done to her for that.
I've tried to avoid posting on Jade threads and have even been posting on the Guardian website rather than here, because I was sick of the Jade threads. Let's just leave it now shall we?
At the end of the day, Jade Goody was a reality TV star. I feel very sad that she has died. Not because she was famous but because she was a woman only two years older than myself who died of cancer and left two young kids behind. I feel sad because she is a representation of millions of people who die of this terrible disease every day. My own father has cancer and I am part of a family who is desperately awaiting an operation which will hopefully cure him next week. Whatever Jade may or may not have been, her death is sad, as are the deaths of all the unknown people we don't hear about because they didn't get onto Big brother or a similar show. And if we're grieving for her, we should grieve for them too.
The nation is at risk of turning into a circus, which is a shame. But if that's the case then the one thing we shouldn't forget in all of it is that whether she was media hungry or not, Jade did die with a mission. Alongside setting up a future for her children, she also very bravely highlighted the issue of cervical cancer. Like it or not, it's people like her that the public pay attention to. She did raise awareness before she died. She did nag for the testing age to be lowered. The amount of women coming forward for cervical smears did go up. She did walk around with her head held high. And she was brave. She was dignified. And that shouldn't be taken away from her. Or any other person that we would only ever have known personally but who did their bit to touch people's lives somehow.
Yep, And there you have conclusive proof that she had very little talent and not the no talent at all like some claim
Anyway you can't deny her fans. Just look at Living viewing figures and OK sales to see that. But that doesn't mean everyone loves her. I know its a cliched analogy but she actually was marmite on legs.
Does it say what nation ?